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The US lost Apple’s manufacturing jobs years ago, and probably for good. Steve Jobs is rumored to have said as much at a high-power Silicon Valley dinner in 2011, when he told President Barack Obama “those jobs aren’t coming back.” But billionaire kleptomaniac Donald Trump thinks he’ll be the one to get them back. Speaking at Liberty…
Hillary Clinton’s sudden attack on Bernie Sanders’ single-payer health care plan is a dramatic break with Democratic Party doctrine that the problem with single-payer is that it is politically implausible — not that it is a bad idea. Single-payer, the Canadian-style system in which the government pays for universal health care, takes the health insurance…
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders this week assailed rival Hillary Clinton for taking large speaking fees from the financial industry since leaving the State Department. According to public disclosures, by giving just 12 speeches to Wall Street banks, private equity firms, and other financial corporations, Clinton made $2,935,000 from 2013 to 2015: Clinton’s most lucrative…
In New York magazine this week, Jonathan Chait attempts to make “The Case Against Bernie Sanders.” Allow us to un-make it. Let’s take Chait’s main points one by one: Sanders doesn’t give the Affordable Care Act enough credit. Bernie Sanders advocates universal, single-payer government health care. To be clear, everyone who believes in health care…
Photo Former President Bush and his son Jeb in Kennebunkport, Me., in 1991. A family friend remembered Jeb Bush as being “like the big cheese” on the tennis court. Credit George Bush Presidential Library and Museum/Corbis DERRY, N.H. — Tennis. Boating. Summers at Walker’s Point. Life among the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite (or WASPs, in…
With tonight’s GOP debate looming, it is time to think about who you would have on your side in a REAL fight. 14. Ted Cruz Let’s be clear here: Ted Cruz is not just the worst presidential candidate to have on your side in a bar fight. He is the worst possible human being to…
John Judis has a lengthy analysis in Vox this morning dissecting the quiet sense of demographic inevitability that has come to define the long-term outlook of Democratic politics. Judis, ironically enough, was one of the original progenitors of the notion that “the groups in the population that are likely to vote for Democrats are growing,…
Hillary Clinton speaks to supporters at a campaign event in Denver, Nov. 24, 2015.Photo byRick Wilking/Reuters Hillary Clinton’s sense of style has been criticized for as long as she has been on the national political scene. One of the uglier forms this mockery has taken, most often in barbed private jokes and comments but…
Confederate-flag sympathizers rallying at Stone Mountain Park, in Stone Mountain, Georgia, in August, 2015. Credit Photograph by John Amis / Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP Barrier Status: ‘none’ In the winter of 1999, the Kansas City Star asked several local dignitaries and writers to herald the upcoming century by writing predictions, replicating an exercise that the…
The latest dirt being flung at presidential candidate Hillary Clinton comes by way of GOP rival Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who suggested at an Iowa campaign stump on Friday that Clinton should receive a spanking. Now, the Internet is trying to give Cruz a walloping of his own. Over the course of her political career, Clinton has…