Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Photo Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia on Wednesday at a round-table policy discussion in Fairfax, Va. Credit Justin T. Gellerson for The New York Times WASHINGTON — The day after Barack Obama became the first African-American to win the White House, Tim Kaine, then the governor of Virginia, visited a civil rights memorial in Richmond….
Hillary Clinton has chosen Sen. Timothy M. Kaine (Va.) as her vice-presidential running mate, completing a Democratic ticket that prizes experience and traditional notions of public service in a political year dominated by Republican rival Donald Trump’s unorthodox, highly personal brand of leadership. Kaine, 58, a former Virginia governor, Richmond mayor and Democratic National Committee…
This is a story about how trolls took the wheel of the clown car of modern politics. It’s a story about the insider traders of the attention economy. It’s a story about fear and loathing and Donald Trump and you and me. It’s not a story about Milo Yiannopoulos, the professional alt-right provocateur who was…
Height – 1536 | Width – 2048 Photo: Associated Press Hillary Clinton is behind in the polls. Four years ago, Barack Obama swept New York with 63% of the vote, the same margin he achieved in 2008 and the best showing of a Democratic presidential candidate here in the last three decades. Hillary Clinton…
New York, NY – July 21, 2016 – 21st Century Fox today announced that Roger Ailes, Chairman and CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, and Chairman of Fox Television Stations, has resigned from his role effective immediately. Rupert Murdoch will assume the role of Chairman and acting CEO of Fox News Channel…
Tuesday was advertised as “Make America Work Again” night in Cleveland. But you heard virtually nothing from any speaker on the economy, except that Barack Obama ruined it, and that Hillary Clinton will make it worse. Not from 492nd-best women’s professional golfer in the world, Natalie Gulbus, who is actually more of a bikini model—though…
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks in Keota, Iowa, in 2015. (Charlie Neibergall/AP) Four years before Hillary Clinton became the first woman to mathematically capture a major U.S. political party’s presidential nomination, a staff member on Rick Santorum’s 2012 presidential campaign posed a question in an email that shocked many people: “Is it God’s highest…
If I harvested all the essays I’ve written about plagiarism since the 1980s, there would be enough of them to make a fairly boring and incoherent book. But of all the cases I’ve read about or adjudicated — in a literary sense — none feels more perplexing to me than the case of Melania Trump….
A look at some of Adrian’s product. I first met Adrian* at a dusty bar situated among warehouses, a couple miles from downtown Cleveland, where they keep the doors locked—you have to knock to get in—and the owner’s aging black lab mingles freely with the aging customers. The vaguely illicit nature of the place was…
As if life wasn’t hard enough for Chris Christie, adult errand boy for the Trump campaign reduced to begging for a VP spot he was never even in the running for, the Cruz campaign has joined in on the fun. “That guy turned over his political testicles long ago,” Cruz’s campaign manger, Jeff Roe, said…