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Donald Trump’s campaign events have apparently become such a minefield for reporters that one major news organization has taken the extraordinary step of offering its correspondents a version of training for dealing with real minefields. NPR has sent its political reporters to 90-minute hostile-environment awareness training, which in its typical form lasts a few days…
Clinton’s own ideological roots lie in that movement. When the president of Wellesley College yielded to the demand of protesting students that one of their number be added to the graduation program in 1969 to counterbalance the establishmentarian commencement speaker, Senator Edward Brooke, Hillary Rodham was their choice. She delivered an address in which the…
Listening to candidates address an AIPAC convention in an election year is bound to give anyone a case of vertigo. Republican or Democrat, the candidates haul out the same clichés to prove their devotion to the state of Israel. It’s a stage built for pandering and hyperbole, and that’s okay. That’s part of the show,…
Welcome back. Now, there’s beenan odd phenomena happening in the Trump campaign, and I’m not talking aboutthe Trump campaign. Uh, it’s aboutsome of his followers. And you have a lot ofblack people supporting Trump. Um, black peoplesupporting Trump? (exclaiming) So, where arethese black people? Well, I had some of themin my studio the other day,…
Donald Trump (EPA/GARY CORONADO/POOL) Fifty-two minutes into Donald Trump’s discussion of weighty issues with The Washington Post’s editorial board came an interlude about his hands. “Normal,” the Republican presidential front-runner insisted. “Strong.” “Good size.” “Great.” “Fine.” “Slightly large, actually.” Trump was asked whether he regretted talking about the size of his hands — and making an unmistakable allusion…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has asked the Obama administration to shield from public disclosure court records related to the once-secret criminal history of a former Donald Trump business partner. In an unusual order prompted by an unsealing request from The Associated Press, U.S. District Judge Brian M. Cogan said that unless the Justice…
As any high-profile Twitter user with a Jewish-sounding last name can tell you, the surest way to see anti-Semitism flood your mentions column is to tweet something negative about Donald Trump. My anti-Trump tweets have been met with such terrifying and profound anti-Semitism that I bought a gun earlier this month. Over the coming weeks,…
6.3K Shares Share Tweet Share Share Email By: Claire Bernish Via theantimedia.org United States — Anonymous just pulled a fast one on Donald Trump, his campaign staff, the Secret Service, and the FBI — in one brilliant and telling fell swoop. To support the White…
Chuck Todd, host of NBC’s Sunday morning political talk show, Meet the Press, told The New York Times he will no longer allow Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump to call in to the show in lieu of appearing on camera, taking away a media advantage that has been solely granted to Trump thus far this campaign season. Trump has dominated the Sunday morning political…
In Orson Scott Card’s great 1985 strategy novel “Ender’s Game,” a boy named Ender enters a training school where students learn skills for outwitting an opponent. They play computer games that become ever more challenging. The stakes in the training are high because their world is threatened by an alien force, and the aliens are…