Editors’ Blog - 2015
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08.19.15 | 2:55 pm
Root Causes

Missouri legislature moves to crack down on sexual harassment of interns by getting them to cover up a little more and dress respectably.

08.19.15 | 3:37 pm
Now Officially Off-the-Rails

Castellated southern border wall not enough? The oneupsmanship continues. Ben Carson says he’d consider using drone strikes to secure the southern border.

08.19.15 | 4:11 pm
Primer

What is “birthright citizenship” and why is it so important? Read this.

08.19.15 | 5:10 pm
More Outreach!

Not even sure what to say about this. Obama plays golf with Stephen Curry, and that makes you uncomfortable somehow? Here’s GOP bigwig Al Cardenas today being all warm and fuzzy about it:

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08.19.15 | 8:10 pm
The Trump Wall. It’ll Be Beautiful

All three cable news network are taking a live feed of Donald Trump’s townhall meeting in New Hampshire where he’s currently taking questions from voters. And I must say, it’s masterful.

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08.19.15 | 9:03 pm
Sanders

Worth watching this impromptu (5:38 minutes) Q&A with Bernie Sanders. Immediately after the jump. Sums the whole thing up pretty nicely – both in terms of substance and the guy himself.

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08.20.15 | 9:05 am
Just Make It Go Away

Be sure to read today’s piece by Tierney Sneed on how ending birthright citizenship migrated from far right legal circles to the centerpiece policy push of the 2016 presidential campaign. The key is that they’re saying we don’t even need to amend the 14th Amendment. We can just pretend the 14th amendment doesn’t say what it plainly says and read it out of the Constitution altogether. And with the way the current Court snaps up cockamamy right wing legal theories these days, they could be right.

08.20.15 | 9:21 am
Jimmy Carter Presser At 10 a.m. ET

The former president will be discussing his cancer diagnosis. Watch.

08.20.15 | 9:39 am
Time Keeps On Slippin’ …

Is the joke on us or are we all in on the joke? That’s the tension in reality TV and with the Trump campaign. And so it is when Time magazine flies in a bald eagle for Trump to pose with in his Manhattan office.

08.20.15 | 10:46 am
First Trump-Inspired Hate Crime

You have seen that two guys in South Boston beat up and urinated on what they believed to be a hispanic homeless man yesterday, citing Donald Trump as their inspiration. It’s an example of what over-the-top xenophobic borderline hate speech can lead to. But a candidate cannot be responsible for what every violent loser does in reaction to their campaign. What makes this story more than a sick oddity though is Trump’s reaction. When asked about it, he issued a mild condemnation before quickly pivoting to how “passionate” his supporters are to make America great again. Check it out.