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Stephen Colbert has Donald Trump’s new book, and he’s not afraid to use it. Wednesday evening on the “Late Show” the comedian was eager to talk about the way that Trump puts the country in such high regard with his new book Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again. “Crippled America is just a…
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Hillary Clinton speaks to members of the International Longshoremen’s Association in Charleston, South Carolina, on Oct. 31, 2015.Photo by Randall Hill/Reuters On Oct. 23, Hillary Clinton opened a new front against Sen. Bernie Sanders: She framed him as a sexist. Clinton took a phrase Sanders had routinely used in talking about gun violence—that “shouting”…
The Republican presidential campaigns seeking to influence network control over the debate formats are dealing with a handful of defections as they seek to cobble together a coalition with enough heft to achieve their demands. Late Tuesday, Jeb Bush joined the list of candidates who would not sign on to a letter many of the…
Begin: Right Rail Advertisement Container End: Right Rail Advertisement Container Begin: WordPress Article Content In California, a state built on the idealism and tacit cruelty of real estate capitalism, no one is innocent. That’s no different with Airbnb and Proposition F, merely the latest of San Francisco’s Brobdingnagian sagas over land-use politics that will go down in today’s election….
Larry Lessig is a Harvard professor, campaign finance reform activist, and attorney; he is not seeking the Democratic nomination to the 2016 presidential election. That last bit is new, as of yesterday: He was seeking the nomination before that—didn’t you know?—and now he is not. Baby shoes, never worn. Lessig’s résumé, by any reasonable standard,…
“The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” announced Monday that they have been denied press credentials to an Iowa GOP candidate forum, The Iowa Growth and Opportunity Party. Which, despite the way it may sound, has nothing to do with Viagra. “We were afraid they were going to make fun of Iowa,” GOP chairman Jeff Kaufmann…
The New York Times published a piece over the weekend about the political prospects of Bernie Sanders, a politician who apparently does not kiss enough babies: “[Sanders] rarely drops by diners or coffee shops with news cameras in tow, unlike most politicians. He hardly ever kisses babies, aides say, and does not mingle much at fund-raisers….
A recent poll of college students’ attitudes toward free speech (in general and on campus) is a mixed bag. The survey by McLaughlin & Associates for the William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale shows that 87% of respondents agreed with this statement: “There is educational value in listening to and understanding views and opinions that…
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush arrived at Wednesday night’s debate in Boulder, Colo., in desperate need of a moment to turn around a struggling campaign that was still reeling from an internal shakeup. He didn’t get it. And he knew it. Instead, he was relegated to also-ran status who struggled to be heard. Rivals, including…