Trump responded to the polls this morning in the most Trumpian way possible: by re-whining the story of how the system is rigged against the racist, misogynist white male trust fund kid-turned-adult billionaire who, despite ...
We had all better get used to hearing from Reince Priebus, the incoming White House chief of staff, who comically attempts to explain away Trump’s years-long “birther” crusade against Barack Obama’s legitimacy by lying about ...
J.D. Vance thinks that hillbilly clannishness and self-pitying pessimism are personally and politically crippling. “We can’t trust the evening news. We can’t trust our politicians. Our universities, the gateway to a better life, are rigged ...
It seems we are in the throes of another of those periods when the "paranoid style in American politics," as the historian Richard Hofstadter put it in a groundbreaking essay, is ascendant. No nefarious act, ...
I have no idea how to “heal” woman hating and no desire to “come together” with the Klan. So what now? Well, now those of us who feel the same way must make it a ...
"I'm going to have a big announcement on it today," Trump said in an interview with Fox Business Network, a day after he refused in a newspaper interview to say whether he believed Obama was ...
Whether or not these voters "are not America," as Clinton claimed, is another story. Donald Trump's continued success seems to say otherwise.