Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Reading archive 2016-10-06 through 2016-10-11

How to Build a Democratic Majority That Lasts

The Editorialists Have Spoken; Will Voters Listen?

Who’s Sorry Now? The Country

Drudge Report’s playing down and politicizing of Hurricane Matthew was ‘deplorable’

A caller had a lewd tape of Donald Trump. Then the race to break the story was on.

Buffett Calls Trump’s Bluff and Releases His Tax Data

John McCain Unendorses Donald Trump: He’s (finally) had enough.

The GOP tumbles toward anarchy: ‘It’s every person for himself or herself’

A generation of GOP stars stands diminished: ‘Everything Trump touches dies’

The facts about Hillary Clinton and the Kathy Shelton rape case

Why was Trump lurking behind Clinton? How body language dominated the debate.

What two body language experts saw at the second presidential debate

When Trump went low, Steve Bannon found a new direction: Lower.

Trump’s truest believers start to worry: ‘You could easily lose this election’

Dwight Howard’s Last Stand: The outcast of the Banana Boat generation has one more chance to get things right

Beautiful, Stirring, and Overcrowded: The many small successes, and one large failure, of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Donald and Billy on the Bus

What Hillary Clinton's email scandal is really about, explained with a cartoon

There’s no Hillary Clinton “email scandal.” There are four of them. Or maybe six. Or none. An explanation of why the Clinton email scandal is so confusing.

The rape allegation against Bill Clinton, explained

DEAR DONALD TRUMP AND VLADIMIR PUTIN, I AM NOT SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL

Sunday, October 2, 2016

Reading archive 2016-10-02

This Is Hillary Clinton's Millennial 'Problem' - "There are only so many times one can insist that young voters capitulate to a political party’s sole demand—vote for us!—in exchange for nothing.
"This might not seem such a bad thing. Positions shift. Parties evolve. A serious threat of millennial desertion might lead to a natural compromise: support, in exchange for real policy concessions going forward. So why have liberal pundits resisted such a move? Why are they intent on not just defeating but discrediting the ideological preferences of the young left, dismissing them not as a legitimate divergence but as mere ignorance and confusion?

"Perhaps the theory that political choices meaningfully reflect political preferences can help us here, as well. Many older people, including liberals, tend to be more conservative than younger voters. These ideological preferences are real, and we should take them as seriously as they should take the preferences of millennials. These older liberals would like their vision of society to prevail. They would like to win. It is therefore in their interests to discredit and defeat opponents of that vision, be they reactionary nativists or young anti-capitalists. One way to defeat them is to use their positions as public commentators in order to attack those opponents, to call them confused and unserious and dangerous. And so they have."

Whatever is actually in Trump’s tax returns is worse than what the New York Times says: Trump is making clear that whatever is really in his tax returns would be devastating to his campaign.

The most shocking part of Donald Trump’s tax records isn’t the $916 million loss everyone’s talking about

As news of Trump’s taxes breaks, he goes off script at a rally in Pennsylvania