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In 2014, a year before Donald Trump was even a twinkle in Chris Christie’s eye, the Republican National Committee announced that its 2016 convention would be held in the fair city of Cleveland, OH. Last night, Donald Trump insisted it was his doing. The impetus for this particular bizarre lie was apparently the fact that…
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Onstage at Monday night’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Donald Trump made an unforgettable entrance to an equally unforgettable song: Queen’s “We Are the Champions.”
“Thots & Thoughts” is a column in which musings on dating, sex, race, religion, and politics all come together—from a bird’s-eye view. If systemic racism employed the services of a carnival barker, that person would sound exactly like former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani. A fusion of buffoonery and bigotry, there are only two…
Barrier Status: ‘none’ Among the many questions still unanswered following Friday’s coup attempt in Turkey is one that has national-security implications for the United States and for the rest of the world: How secure are the American hydrogen bombs stored at a Turkish airbase? The Incirlik Airbase, in southeast Turkey, houses NATO’s largest nuclear-weapons storage…
“What a memorable day!” wrote a middle-class Hamburg housewife in her diary on Jan. 30, 1933. She had just watched the parade of torch-bearing storm troopers celebrate Adolf Hitler’s assumption of power in Germany. Frau Solmitz did not, however, extol only Hitler. She waxed melodic about Hitler’s cabinet, in which there were just three…
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan places the blame for this weekend’s failed coup attempt on an Islamic preacher and one-time ally, Fethullah Gulen (above), who now resides in Pennsylvania with a green card. Erdogan is demanding the U.S. extradite Gulen, citing prior extraditions by the Turkish government of terror suspects demanded by the U.S.: “Now we’re saying deliver this guy…
All the convention’s a stage, and speakers are merely players. At this week’s Republican National Convention, one former entertainer and political farceur has already pushed to the center in a winking game that alternates between seriousness and an old television persona: Stephen Colbert. The Atlantic‘s coverage of the Republican and Democratic nominations for the U.S….
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence went to go see Mulan with his daughters. He thought it was gonna be a nice, innocent time! He thought, perhaps, that like most other Disney movies, it would teach his daughters important life lessons about what it means…
It’s not so much a platform as it is the Republican Party’s a suicide note. The Republican National Convention is underway, and it’s a regular “who’s who” of “where the hell is everyone?â Watch Full Frontal with Samantha Bee all new … The Not- Ready-For-Primetime Party | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS –…