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Throughout the Trump presidency, it wasn’t just his allies but the media that obsessively highlighted Trump’s mood and anger level. /1https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/05/trump-allies-want-you-know-hes-doing-just-fine-grea

A fascinating early use of the eschewing of 'racist bones' came when the 12 African American players on the Denver Broncos boycotted the team's annual dinner-dance in 1966. 1/ https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28999313/

The irony of the 60 Minutes interviews is that Biden faced much tougher questions. They asked him, and not the guy who recently bragged about acing a dementia test, whether

This piece is incredibly credulous about Trump's approach to the economy and in accepting the myth that, prior to Trump, the GOP embraced "sacred verities about government debt."https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/business/econ

What makes Biden's embrace of New Deal-inspired policies is that when he entered national politics in the 1970s, a significant chunk of his Party asserted that the New Deal was

Lee's statement that "we are not a democracy" has a long genealogy on the American right, and is not that different from what others have said recently. /1https://twitter.com/SenMikeLee/status/1314089207875371008 Remember that

It occurs to me that the last few Coronavirus months have been a grand natural experiment in "planning" versus "spontaneous order."And, it seems reasonable to conclude, that, thus far, "spontaneous

The policies that Trump mentioned in his interminable Tulsa rant were tax cuts for the rich, deregulation, and conservative judges. Further evidence that he has governed as a conservative, not

People have noted that Trump used the phrase of Miami police chief, Walter Headley. What is notable is the positive coverage Headley received in newspapers throughout the country in 1967.

This piece by @zackbeauchamp on the "crisis" of liberalism is well-done and thought-provoking. I do have a few questions about some of the critiques though. /1https://twitter.com/zackbeauchamp/status/1171132848486699008 I find a t

You would never know from reading this piece by Henry Olsen, who doesn't define either term, that the meaning of "freedom" (used 3 times) and "liberty" (employed 10 times) have

I've been following the coverage of Trump in @nytimes & @washingtonpost since the 2016 campaign. While the reporting is almost always excellent, what strikes me is how consistently they bend