Trump On The Ropes?
The weeks that followed the end of the Democratic Convention have been marked by a drop in poll numbers for Donald Trump, not to mention a towering, near-monolithic avalanche of media abuse directed at the candidate. Seeded among the venom has been the repeated claim...
The Writhe of Khan
We are now entering Week Three of massive media outrage involving Khizr Khan, a Muslim attorney whose son, Humayun, was killed in Iraq in 2004. Both Khans, native to Pakistan, arrived in the United States in 1980. The son went into the military. The father went to...
Republican National Convention Day Three: Cruz Control
CNN, of all people, summarized Day Three of the Republican Convention perfectly: “Ted Cruz stole the show, and then Donald Trump stole it right back.” Of course, it’s beyond CNN to give Trump kudos for the spectacular turnaround; it’s not called the Clinton News...
Republican National Convention Day Two: Getting Trumpier!
Day Two of the Republican National Convention opened (in the world of journalism, at least) with apocalyptic discussions of one of the weightiest and most crucial political topics of the day — did two or three sentences from Melania Trump’s remarks the day before too...
Republican National Convention Day One: Lullaby In Cleveland
Any week of a Republican National Convention can be expected to be a week of Republicans comparing the presumptive nominee to the descent of the Messiah. This is not that sort of week, for the nominee in question is Donald Trump, breaker of norms, nationalist...
The Double Shock Of Trump
What is it about Donald Trump’s use of language that is such a shock? He seems incapable of making so much as a casual remark about the weather without sending the whole of the East Coast Literati into torrential avalanches of Hitler metaphor. One can dismiss the...
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