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Mary Finn, an editor with Democracy in Crisis, often makes extensive notes on my columns—in this case, we decided they were far more interesting than the column itself. So we left them, in dialogue with a half-formed column. I have been trying to figure out a way, as a white man, to write about the […]
I n his tax speech in Pennsylvania this month, President Trump gave a shout out to “The great Jeffrey Lord.”He went on to explain that Lord “was on fake news CNN for a long time. He was one of my few sources of truth.” CNN severed ties with Lord after he tweeted “sieg heil,” a […]
O ne night last week, I suddenly started pouring sweat, heart pounding, as I fell off my couch. It was the beginning of a high-fever, five-day stomach flu. To paraphrase Joan Didion, it was not an unreasonable response to the summer of 2017. I’ve been thinking about Didion a lot, especially “Slouching Toward Bethlehem,” her […]
As Democrats choose the new chair of the Democratic National Committee this weekend, the worst thing they could do is claim credit for the resignation of former general Michael T. Flynn as national security advisor and the withdrawal of Hardee’s honcho Andy Puzder as Secretary of Labor nominee. It will make them underestimate their own […]
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