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Monthly Archives: May 2016
Confessions Of A Former Dead-Ender
BY FROMA HARROP Bernie Sanders is clearly winding down his campaign for the Democratic nomination. In speeches and interviews over the weekend, he started turning his lance away from Hillary Clinton and toward Donald Trump. Though most of his supporters say they will make the transition to Clinton, a sizable minority – 28%, according to […]
Oklahoma Jenga
Crying ‘Rape,’ Trump? Unseal Your Divorce Records
BY JOE CONASON Evidently Donald Trump believes his campaign can accomplish with an Internet video what Kenneth Starr failed to do with $50 million and a platoon of private detectives and FBI agents: Bring down Bill and Hillary Clinton by dredging them through moldy muck. Somehow he doesn’t seem to understand his own vulnerability on […]
Actors And Demagogues
Arithmetic
BY SUSAN ESTRICH Math was actually my best subject, until seventh grade, when I was the only girl on the math team: As if it were on the intercom, I heard loud and clear that girls weren’t supposed to be good at math. But today I’m still proficient enough to figure out how to add […]