Pushing racial boundaries, Trump draws rebuke from a fretful GOP – The Washington Post

Donald Trump, whose campaign for president has crashed through one barrier after another, has again moved his candidacy into highly questionable territory, threatening to stir more racial animosity in an already divided country and putting at risk his party’s relationship with the nation’s fastest-growing minority group. Over the past week, Trump has repeatedly cited the…

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The Hands of a Leader: Donald Trump and Niccolò Machiavelli – Los Angeles Review of Books

  Commentators have ranged far and wide looking for historical precedents in their efforts to describe the rise of Donald Trump. Some rifle through the American experience, citing the cases of Andrew Jackson or Barry Goldwater; others rummage through the European experience, turning up the instances of Benito Mussolini or Silvio Berlusconi, Jean-Marie Le Pen…

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Is This Chelsea Clinton’s Real Father?

If you’ve been even vaguely tuned in to the overactive Hillary Clinton conspiracy mill over the years, you’ve likely heard about the questions of Chelsea Clinton’s paternity. But for those who haven’t, here’s how this song goes: Bill Clinton is sterile, and Chelsea’s real father is Clinton confidant and federal tax evader Webb Hubbell. Hillary’s…

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Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski rails against “pathetic, weak, sell-out” Paul Ryan for endorsing Trump: “He’s not going to pay you back!” – Salon.com

Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski had what can only be called “harsh words” for House Speaker Paul Ryan after he endorsed Republican front-runner Donald Trump earlier this week. Ryan claimed that he “didn’t know [Trump] before this process began, had never sat down with him and talked about the country, and principles and policies,” but…

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2016 Election: Why Some of the Smartest Progressives I Know Will Vote for Trump over Hillary – POLITICO Magazine

Why do progressives reject Hillary Clinton? The highly educated, high-income, finance-literate readers of my website, Naked Capitalism, don’t just overwhelmingly favor Bernie Sanders. They also say “Hell no!” to Hillary Clinton to the degree that many say they would even vote for Donald Trump over her. And they don’t come by these views casually. Their…

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Politico Editor Says Trump’s Attempts to Bar Its Reporter “Will Not Work” | Washingtonian

If the Donald Trump campaign is trying to “squelch independent coverage” by removing a reporter from an event, “it will not work,” Politico Editor Susan Glasser says in a statement to Washingtonian. On Thursday night a Trump campaign staffer and a security guard kicked Politico reporter Ben Schreckinger out of a campaign rally in San Jose,…

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