Remember back during the Baltimore protests over the death of Freddie Gray there was that viral video of an African-American woman smacking around her protesting son? We talked to her and a fascinating discussion unfolded about police violence, parenting, fear and corporal punishment. Give this a read.
16 Republicans make the cut for the September Republican debate on CNN. Only one ‘candidate’, former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore, failed even to make the kids’ table debate.
I’ve been meaning to write more about the on-going farce which is the opposition to the world powers deal to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon. But I just came across a hilarious story which really brings together the tragic, tendentious and hysterical (yes, both meanings) nature of this drama. I just learned that Joe Lieberman, storied Middle East hawk, has joined United Against Nuclear Iran as its new Chairman. UANI is one of several pressure groups now rolling out massive ad campaigns against the deal bankrolled by assorted billionaires.
Trump still on top in Iowa after debate drama that was supposed to sink him.
Far be it from me to beat up on insular, east coast elites. But the insular, cross-partisan east coast media elite hasn’t grasped how the politics of resentment are fueling Donald Trump’s campaign or why gang ups from Fox News just don’t matter.
No one in national politics is more plugged in with ALEC, the lobbyist-charged right-wing legislative group transforming American politics at the state level, than presidential candidate Scott Walker. Brian Murphy gives us an inside look at the pay for play, transformative politics Walker wants to bring to the White House.
So we’ve got our first poll. And it looks like GOP party leaders and a lot of pundits are in for a bit of a surprise since at least as of yesterday Donald Trump appears to have paid zero price for his performance at the GOP debate or for his continuing antics in the two days after.
As you have probably seen, I’ve already outlined my argument for why this would be so here and here.
From our new history blog, Primary Source: How did African-Americans discover they were being “redlined”.
Over the weekend, we’ve seen a growing consensus that Donald Trump has finally done it: gone too far and killed his rising campaign for the Republican nomination. Ezra Klein and Nate Silver argue that Trump has finally picked a fight he cannot win for a very simple reason: So far Trump has built himself up by attacking “elites” and institutions base Republicans don’t trust and feel grievances against. But now he’s picked Fox News, which polls show and as Ezra and Nate note, Republicans trust in very high numbers. He can’t win a battle over fairness with an institution base Republicans trust more than anyone else.
I don’t agree. This is all too literal.