Last night, in Time Capsule #88, I noted the deafening silence of Republican officialdom, after Hillary Clinton delivered her calmly…
Nothing like this has happened before in modern times. Trump Time Capsule #21, June 13, 2016. Pull Their…
For several weeks I’ve been running a Trump Time Capsule series, chronicling things Donald Trump has done and said that…
Time Capsule #15, June 6, 2016, Donald Trump Has No Campaign As with item #13 in this series…
I think there’s actually a reason to keep laying this out, but we’ll get to that. For now, let’s look…
Daily Trump #9, May 31, 2016. “You’re a sleaze.” How do we put in perspective Donald…
In an item this weekend in the “Daily Trump” thread, I noted Donald Trump’s claim that illegal immigrants are treated…
Over the weekend a Washington Post op-ed titled “We Must Weed Out Ignorant Voters from the Electorate” got…
Previously in the Hmmmm series, please see this, this, this, this, and this. The theme of the poll reported in…
The latest stories I’m talking about are those involving the “John Miller” and “John Barron” hoaxes, in which a man…
Quote one, from Michael Cohen’s report for the Boston Globe on the big Trump rally in Long Island. Emphasis added…
Everyone has seen the video of a security agent manhandling a photographer at a Donald Trump rally in Virginia. For…
Congratulations to Hillary Clinton! And to Ted Cruz on his Texas and Oklahoma wins. And to Bernie Sanders for his…
Headline on an editorial-page essay in this morning’s NYT: From the essay itself: In the…
The pull-quote at the beginning of my current cover story says: Many people are discouraged about America…
Without much set-up or padding, herewith some of the slew of holiday-week responses to last night’s Note, on why President…
In the previous note I mentioned a strange little controversy over President Obama's comment, in a supposedly…
A week ago at this time I was still typing up notes from a two-hour “off-the-record” interview that President Obama…
Please be sure to read Binyamin Appelbaum’s assessment of a return to the gold standard, in today’s NYT. (Note: Appelbaum…
It’s too easy, and also rash and risky, to criticize people on the basis of perhaps-out-of-context social media snippets. …