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Donald Trump is offering the ultimate test to white people. Will they allow open bigotry once again to become an acceptable element of mainstream American discourse? Perhaps without even realizing it, in a recent column for Business Insider, Josh Barro made the best argument for this mind-boggling idea. He suggested that the reason Trump deliberately stokes racial…
Over the past decade, Twitter has become an invaluable source of political news. In an era when television news – and even print media – have become increasingly partisan, Twitter has made it possible to create a personalized news channel that can be ideologically diverse and informative. When news breaks, I can get a solid left-of-center…
The chorus of criticism over the media’s coronation of Hillary Clinton as the presumptive Democratic nominee Monday night was ferocious in some corners and measured in others. But at its core the issue was: How dare they? Glenn Greenwald, never one to pull punches, described it on the Intercept as elitist and undemocratic. Michael Tracey,…
Barrier Status: ‘none’ On Monday morning, employees of BuzzFeed received an e-mail from the company’s C.E.O., Jonah Peretti, informing them of an unusual business decision: BuzzFeed had told the Republican National Committee that it would not accept ads for the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee, Donald Trump. This wasn’t a meaningless stunt. In April, the Committee…
We just got this email from TPM Reader DL. And as far as I can tell, she’s right. There does not seem to be any mention of Donald Trump on the official Republican Party website, gop.com. Hillary is there. Bernie is there. George H.W.Bush is there. Reagan is there. Reagan/Bush. Lincoln is there. No Trump…
Choosing a running mate is one of the first major decisions that a presidential nominee makes; it’s an early window into his or her personality, priorities and campaign strategy. It’s … important, and the media will spend endless hours discussing the pros and cons of each potential pick. But the press typically overestimates the electoral…
One of the great and terrible parts of being a journalist in the 21st century is easy access to any story I’ve contributed to the internet. This made it especially easy to revisit an essay I wrote as a 23-year-old newly minted college grad, working as an editorial assistant at Newsweek magazine. It was a…
Bernie Sanders isn’t just winning the youth vote — he’s crushing it. A new analysis from Tufts University shows that Sanders has now surpassed Barack Obama’s 2008 Democratic primary totals among young people in the 25 states where we can draw a comparison — whether you count by raw vote total or percentage of the…
Donald Trump has not even officially assumed the title as Republican nominee for president and already his campaign isn’t even bothering to hide that it’s tearing itself in two. Specifically, this past weekend, Paul Manafort, the longtime GOP dementor brought on by Trump to give his campaign an air of professionalism—or aides loyal to him—used…
06/07/16 01:00 PM EDT Hillary Clinton has held 419 events since launching her campaign last year, visited 42 states and announced 53 distinct policy proposals. But she’s been short on creating big, memorable “moments” as she criss-crossed the country participating in sober roundtable discussions and scripted rallies. Story Continued Below Tuesday night was supposed to…