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Putin is the winner as Washington melts down over Russian hacking. A part of the declassified version Intelligence Community Assessment on Russia’s efforts to interfere with the U.S. political process is photographed in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated Jan. 8, 2017 10:20 p.m. ET 721 COMMENTS What a spectacle. Two weeks before a peaceful…
Third party voters were blamed for Trump’s election, but Clinton’s inability to motivate her own party’s voters was a far greater factor in her defeat. Anthony L. Fisher|Jan. 6, 2017 12:32 pm Stop the presses. Turns out it wasn’t Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, and Evan McMullin that cost Hillary Clinton her spot in the Oval…
(Mark Lyons/European Pressphoto Agency) Last night, CNN aired a terrific segment on people from coal country who voted for Donald Trump — but are now worried that his vow to repeal Obamacare will deprive them of crucial protections that enable them to stay afloat financially. This dovetails with other reporting that suggests a lot of Trump…
A man who some believe to be a pretty terrible human being is scheduled to become our next President in less than three weeks. I won’t make yet another rundown of all of the awful things he has said and done. I’ve done that a dozen times. Pretty much every reputable news outlet in the…
The lesson of Trump’s victory is not that data is dead. The lesson is that data is flawed. It has always been flawed—and always will be. Before Donald Trump won the presidency on Tuesday night, everyone from Nate Silver to The New York Times to CNN predicted a Trump loss—and by sizable margins. “The tools…
Jonathan Ernst / Reuters COMING UP EMPTY Team Trump Struggling to Fill National-Security Jobs Turned down by top talent, Trump’s administration-in-waiting is trying to find someone to operate the agencies tasked with stopping hackers and terrorists. President-elect Donald Trump is scrambling to line up senior officials to run the government’s sprawling intelligence and homeland security…
Since Gallup began asking Americans the people they admired the most, there’s been a consistent pattern: Whoever was president or president-elect was almost always the man the country admired the most. The most admired woman? Usually someone who had been married to a president. Only five times has the most admired man in the country not…
Donald Trump is both addicted to media attention and prone to lying to suit his own needs. There is no reason—none—for journalists to allow him to harangue them off-the-record. So stop. What, exactly, is accomplished by “off the record” meetings between journalists and political figures? A simple breakdown: Politicians gain: A chance to convince journalists…
I deactivated my Twitter account today. It was more of a spontaneous impulse than a New Year resolution, although it does feel like a juice cleanse, a moulting, a polar-bear plunge, a clean slate (except the opposite – like throwing your slate into a volcano and running). One moment I was brains-deep in the usual…
Amid a wave of criticism on Monday, House Republicans are reversing course on a plan to kill the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), an independent body created to investigate unethical wrongdoing by lawmakers. House Republican met in secret on Sunday evening and voted to rein in the OCE by subjecting it to oversight from the…