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Rules for Engagement, From the University of Vermont
This morning I had the privilege of giving the commencement address at the University of Vermont—UVM, home of the Catamounts…
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On Tim Kaine's Debut (Special-Edition Time Capsule #53)
There’s a special “debut” category for vice-presidential selections who very suddenly find themselves in the world’s media glare. …
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Trump Time Capsule #50: 'I Alone'
No one will ever be able to say, looking back, that Donald Trump was concealing the kind of leader he…
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Trump Time Capsule #47: Clown Car
On the morning after Donald Trump officially became the Republican party’s nominee, we learned these two things about his approach…
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Trump Time Capsule #46: Maybe Recycling Is a Family Tradition?
Even as I type, Donald J. Trump Jr’s speech on his father’s behalf at the Republican convention is receiving lots…
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Trump Time Capsule #18: From ‘Pocahontas’ to ‘the Fat Jap’
I’ve been off-duty on other fronts for a couple of days — largely on the far-more-encouraging Maker Movement / startup-revival front…
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Trump Time Capsule #9: 'You're a Sleaze'
Daily Trump #9, May 31, 2016. “You’re a sleaze.” How do we put in perspective Donald…
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Trump Time Capsule #6: There Is No California Drought
Daily Trump #6: May 27, 2016. Drought? What drought? The rains of the past El Nino season have…
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Deb Fallows at the University of Redlands
During our West Coast travels for American Futures reports in the winter of 2014-2015, my wife Deb and…
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What Sarah Palin Should Have Taught Donald Trump
I made one very bad call about the 2016 election, which I quickly confessed! It was the same bad call…
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Trumpus Ignoramus: A Candidate and the Genius of Know-Nothingism
Yesterday I noted that Donald Trump was by far the supplest and most gifted TV performer of all the presidential…
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters After the ‘Nice’ Debate: Trump's Shape-Shifting Power
Donald Trump is by far the most gifted performer in the presidential field, and by far the least-informed.
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Jim Young / Reuters The 40 Seconds John Kasich Will Think About for the Rest of His Life
He had the chance to hit a home run, as a big, slow pitch came right over the middle of the plate. He chose not to swing.
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YouTube Marco Rubio May Have Finally Discovered the Anti-Trump Kryptonite
What’s the only way to undermine a posturing bully? Make people laugh at him.
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Marco Rubio, Please Call Dan Quayle
In honor of the just-begun new Chinese Year of the Monkey, and in keeping with the Chinese fondness for numbering…
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Why the Latest Debate Was Good (and a Little Bad) for Both Clinton and Sanders
I agree with David Graham’s summing up of the “hedgehog-vs.-fox” nature of the Democratic debate last night…
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If You Didn't See Obama’s Gun Violence Statement Live, You Should Watch It Here
Below you see the YouTube version of the official White House feed from earlier today. I’ve set it to begin…
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Obama's Leadership Tone: Chessmaster, Pawn, or Something Else Altogether?
Through the past ten days in this space, I’ve had several items on the style and logic of President Obama’s…
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Obama ‘Needs to Stop Sounding Like Dad’
After President Obama’s anti-ISIS speech, I said that I agreed with his strategy and its underlying logic, but could understand…
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Does a Chickenhawk Nation Invite Terrorism?
After President Obama’s speech on ISIS last night, I argued that he was making a least-bad, sane, shrewd case about…
