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As a critical reader, it is important to analyze every word in a slogan, such as Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again.” This essay riffs off that last word: Again. That adverb suggests there was a time — somewhere in the past — when America was really great. So was America great in the 1820s,…
It may not be a post-RNC bounce, but political analyst and statistician Nate Silver’s latest forecast of the presidential election shows Donald Trump leading Hillary Clinton with a shocking 15 percentage point-greater chance of winning if the general election were held today. After a parade of D-list celebrities and conservative icons yelled that the nation…
via Screenshot A recent presidential poll done on Bravo-TV’s “Watch What Happens Live” found that viewers of the show strongly prefer Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton. Viewers of “Watch What Happens Live,” hosted by Andy Cohen, were encouraged to text in their president choice. The results of the survey found that 65 percent respondents favored…
Evidence suggests that a Russian intelligence group was the source of the most recent Wikileaks intel dump, which was aimed to influence the U.S. election. Close your eyes and imagine that a hacking group backed by Russian President Vladimir Putin broke into the email system of a major U.S. political party. The group stole thousands…
PHILADELPHIA — The Democratic National Committee chairwoman resigned under fire Sunday, on the eve of a national convention meant to project competence and unity in contrast to the turbulence of the Republicans’ gathering last week. The disarray threatened to upend Hillary Clinton’s plan to paint the Democrats as the party best prepared to lead a…
Photo Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times Welcome to a world without rules. (I want you to read this paragraph in your super-scary movie trailer voice.) Welcome to a world in which families are mowed down by illegal immigrants, in which cops die in the streets, in which Muslims rampage the innocents and threaten our…
For months now, Hillary Clinton and her Democratic allies have been hammering Donald J. Trump on the air, and Mr. Trump has barely bothered to hit back at all. But as he emerges from the Republican convention, Mr. Trump is at last receiving some meaningful air support: Rebuilding America Now, one of the “super PACs”…
Updated | Just hours after Donald Trump formally accepted the Republican presidential nomination, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke announced he is running for a U.S. Senate seat representing Louisiana under an “America First” campaign slogan. It’s a two-word phrase that Trump also used in his speech Thursday night at the Republican National Convention. “I’m overjoyed to see Donald Trump…
At least two people were killed and more than a dozen others were injured in a shooting outside of a Florida nightclub early Monday, officials said. Some of the victims were aged as young as 12, according to authorities in Fort Myers. Club Blu Google Police said that officers responded to the parking lot…
LGBT North Carolina Governor Attacks NBA For Pulling 2017 All-Star Game by Zack Ford Jul 22, 2016 2:12 pm CREDIT: AP Photo/Chuck Burton The NBA announced Thursday that it will no longer hold its All-Star Game in Charlotte next year because North Carolina state lawmakers refused to backtrack on HB2, the anti-transgender law passed…