[caption id="attachment_88380" align="aligncenter" width="670"] President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference in the Brady press briefing room at the White House in Washington, Monday, Nov. 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Manuel.
*34 US presidential elections have featured a recorded popular vote. In 24 of those elections the two leading candidates received a combined total of at least 90% of the vote. .
Jacob Levy's blog post today is a must read. The first half takes to task the pundit's fallacy of "too much identity politics cost Clinton the election" and the second.
When historians look back on the 2016 election, they will no doubt argue at great length about the remarkable number of factors that led to the still almost incredible fact.
I wrote a piece for The Nation about what it's like to be on the Professor Watchlist: We have been down this road before. During the widespread crackdown on.
In his latest column decrying the PC university, Nicholas Kristof indulges in the rhetorical pleasures of assembling and then incinerating a parade of strawmen. Before getting to that, let's note.
Parody is spinning ever harder in its grave: President-elect Donald Trump has selected former Texas Gov. Rick Perry — who famously once forgot that he wanted to abolish the Energy.
[embed]https://youtu.be/E-P2qL3qkzk[/embed] More proof of Trump's anti-elitism: like many un Joe ordinaire he's up to his eyebrows in debt. According to his own public disclosure, Trump, as of May, was on.
