Politics in America “Rhetorically, Trump drove a high-speed train filled with fireworks into a nuclear power plant” Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 September 2016 Rhetorically, Trump drove a high-speed train filled with fireworks into a nuclear power plant....
Politics in America “Trump is not trying to persuade, detail, or prove: he is trying to thrill, agitate, be liked, be loved, here and now” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 September 2016 It’s considered an indication of authenticity that he doesn’t generally speak from a teleprompter...
Politics in America “There’s nothing the media hates more than to admit that a political race is over before it even began” Author Drew Kaplan Date 30 August 2016 There’s nothing the media hates more than to admit that a political race is...
News Media, Newspapers, Politics in America “Trump flouts the epistemological basis of contemporary political discourse…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 August 2016 The strange alliance that has emerged between even Trump-supporting Republican elites and a critical...
Journalism, News Media, Newspapers, Politics in America “…the national press is undoubtedly cosmopolitan in its outlook…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 August 2016 I have worked in a number of newsrooms, and I know writers and editors...
Politics in America “This is not going to be a ‘there’s no difference between the candidates’ election” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 August 2016 This is not going to be a “there’s no difference between the candidates” election....
Politics in America “Seldom in a modern presidential campaign has the selection of a running mate mattered as little as it does for [Clinton]” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 July 2016 Here’s what we journalists don’t like to tell you or even admit to ourselves...
Politics in America “…much of contemporary discourse and pretty much all of American politics is a dispute over evidence” Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 July 2016 Empiricists believed they had deduced a method by which they could discover a universe...
Journalism, Politics in America “It’s not that we shouldn’t have covered Trump’s craziness, but that we should have aggressively provided context in the form of fact checks and robust examination of policy proposals” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 May 2016 Although many of us journalists have derided Trump, the truth is that he generally...
Politics in America “…every major ‘populist’ insurgency is a warning about serious problems festering in our politics” Author Drew Kaplan Date 19 May 2016 In their own fashion, Sanders and Trump are protesting inequalities and the corruption of...