Politics in America “Republican voters…were attracted to shallow political entertainers and obviously unqualified candidates long before Mr. Trump threw his hat in the ring” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 March 2018 For years before Mr. Trump was elected, Republicans lacked a consensus plan to replace...
Politics in America, Television “The sessions are extraordinary for the rare glimpses they provide of unscripted conversations at the White House on critical issues” Author Drew Kaplan Date 14 March 2018 The chief executive sits at a long wooden table, putting his invited guests on...
Politics in America “This fall, the Trump administration found its new favorite non-denial denial” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 March 2018 This fall, the Trump administration found its new favorite non-denial denial. When a reporter...
Politics in America “we have here a ‘Baptists and bootleggers’ situation, in which liberals and conservatives combine to create a moral situation much worse than either’s policies could independently create” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 January 2018 Mr. Sholom Rubashkin was recently released from prison. There are compelling arguments that his...
Politics in America “In many ways, the [Republican] party’s hangups stem from its unwillingness to fully reckon with the Bush legacy” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 November 2017 It would be easy to simply blame the president for the party’s disarray. Donald...
Politics in America The Republican Party “became defined by what was left: its resentments and suspicions, its antagonisms and obsessions, its anger and its differences” Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 October 2017 The focal point for much of the post-Bush right’s anger and resentment was the...
Politics in America “Trump’s innovation is to have mined a deeper vein of cynicism, exhausting the weary tropes of polite political discourse” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 September 2017 …Trump is pivoting constantly. Or perhaps more accurately, the man is so erratic that...
Politics in America “Fetishizing civility has a way of elevating style over substance” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 September 2017 Fetishizing civility has a way of elevating style over substance. Richard Spencer, the white...
Politics in America “When did our national discourse become so consumed with the state of our national discourse?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 September 2017 When did our national discourse become so consumed with the state of our national...
Politics in America “Part of what makes the modern use of ‘winning’ so strange is that it’s often used in contexts that are not competitions” Author Drew Kaplan Date 30 August 2017 Part of what makes the modern use of “winning” so strange is that it’s...