Donald Trump

Inside the Kremlin’s propaganda playbook

A ‘nothing is true and everything is possible’ media strategy has kept Putin in power…

Trump is a rogue regime

Trump’s U.N. speech was nothing we haven’t heard before. His List Of Complaints: North Korea, Iran, China, terrorists, immigrants, the United Nations, Cuba, Venezuela. Each one accompanied by a lie, exaggeration or schoolyard taunt. He called the Taliban and ISIS “loser terrorists,”…

Charlottesville

This weekend a bunch of young white men protested, with dopey tiki torches and pepper spray, begging not to be “replaced” as the most privileged group of people on earth. When counter-protesters gathered to argue otherwise, one of the racists drove his Dodge Challenger into them. He killed a woman…

‘Democracies rely more on norms than laws’

There aren’t any new takes on Trump firing Comey, so I won’t add my own. Instead, I’ll share three that were instructive for me this week. The main thing to remember here is that while Trump’s behavior may or may not defy the law, it certainly defies…

Some things are real

Everybody’s got an opinion about Trump’s strike on a Syrian air base last week and the chemical attack that apparently provoked it. Social media theorists and pundits prefer to comment in absolutes. And none of their views are surprising: They’re based on the same kind of limited…

Opinion

This is class warfare

But Democrats aren’t the ones waging it.

Interview

Despite Wilders, ‘we are still an open and progressive society’