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Politics

  • This Is What the Resistance Sounds Like

    Governor Jerry Brown of California got Twitter-verse attention for saying two days ago that if Donald Trump shuts down satellite…

    • James Fallows
    • Dec 16, 2016
    • Notes
  • Which Department Should Rick Perry Head? The Answer Will Come to You.

    I have a soft spot for Rick Perry, finding his aw-shucks demeanor more natural-seeming than most politicians’. I can even…

    • James Fallows
    • Dec 13, 2016
    • Notes
  • Landslide Donald

    As I mentioned in this post in late November, and in this followup, and also in a discussion with Diane…

    • James Fallows
    • Dec 10, 2016
    • Notes
  • ‘There’s No Such Thing Anymore, Unfortunately, as Facts’

    This morning, straight off the plane from Shanghai, I was on The Diane Rehm Show with Margaret Sullivan, much-missed former…

    • James Fallows
    • Nov 30, 2016
    • Notes
  • A More Detailed Guide to Dealing With Trump's Lies

    Yesterday from China, I did a long item on the utter inadequacy of standard press practices in the face of…

    • James Fallows
    • Nov 28, 2016
    • Notes
  • How to Deal With the Lies of Donald Trump: Guidelines for the Media

    A man who will literally have life and death power over much of humanity seems not to understand or care…

    • James Fallows
    • Nov 28, 2016
    • Notes
  • How the Vote Broke, in Historical Perspective

    From the inbox, an engineer who is directly involved in the technology for tabulating votes in a number of states…

    • James Fallows
    • Nov 21, 2016
    • Notes
  • On the Future of the Time Capsules

    Back in May, I kicked off a Trump Time Capsule series, designed to note what we knew, when we knew…

    • James Fallows
    • Nov 20, 2016
    • Notes
  • A Video for the New Age

    As a study of oratorical styles, this is genuinely worth watching, even if you don't understand a word of…

    • James Fallows
    • Nov 19, 2016
    • Notes
  • After the Election: ‘What a Pathetic Thing Is Decadence’

    Thank you to readers for the hundreds of messages that have been pouring in daily. In most of the time…

    • James Fallows
    • Nov 14, 2016
    • Notes
  • First Thoughts on the Election

    Most of what I think about last night’s results I discussed in a long talk early this morning with Terry…

    • James Fallows
    • Nov 9, 2016
    • Notes
  • How I'd Vote, If I Lived In ...

    A for-the-record personal-preference note on election eve. Yes for Aguilar. If I lived in my original hometown of…

    • James Fallows
    • Nov 7, 2016
    • Notes
  • ‘A Disturbing Series of Events’: The Comey Aftermath

    Ten days ago I argued that FBI Director James Comey had changed the dynamics of the 2016 election in an…

    • James Fallows
    • Nov 7, 2016
    • Notes
  • The Future of Mr. Comey

    With his ill-advised intrusions into this year’s election, FBI Director James Comey has already damaged U.S. interests and the…

    • James Fallows
    • Nov 6, 2016
    • Notes
  • 2016: The Year Latinos Saved America?

    Two of my long-time, politically well-experienced friends have been in Nevada recently, doing get-out-the-vote work. Independently, each has just sent…

    • James Fallows
    • Nov 5, 2016
    • Notes
  • Trump Time Capsule #152: The End

    Five and a half months ago, as Donald Trump effectively clinched the Republican nomination, I thought it would be worth…

    • James Fallows
    • Nov 4, 2016
    • Notes
  • A Third-Party Voter Makes His Case (and I Dissent)

    A reader in New York writes about the way he is casting his vote. He also asks a question, for…

    • James Fallows
    • Nov 1, 2016
    • Notes
  • Trump Time Capsule #151: Director Comey’s Uneven Sensitivities

    Presented with minimal elaboration, today’s installment of the “what is Director Comey thinking?” saga: This story is…

    • James Fallows
    • Oct 31, 2016
    • Notes
  • Trump Time Capsule #150: James Comey and the Destruction of Norms

    The rules in politics haven’t changed that much in recent years. What has changed is adherence to norms, in an…

    • James Fallows
    • Oct 30, 2016
    • Notes
  • Who’s a ‘White Nationalist’? Readers Weigh In

    Yesterday I mentioned a social-media analysis showing that 35 percent of active Trump supporters on Twitter (versus less than one-tenth…

    • James Fallows
    • Oct 29, 2016
    • Notes
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