Tag: Wiretap
Wiretap: Hurricane Matthew avoids a direct hit, ethics lawyers slam Trump,...
Category 3
Hurricane Matthew traveled along Florida's central coast last night but avoided a direct hit. The storm has weakened slightly overnight but is still a powerful Category...
Wiretap: The Flint compromise, Johnson’s latest Aleppo moment, and Trump’s weighty...
The numbers are in
How much did the debate hurt Donald Trump? As actual scientifically-based polls start to come in, the answers seem to range...
Wiretap: Debate post-mortem, Wells Fargo and other fallout
Lashing out
It was the day after the miserable night before and Donald Trump was blaming the mic, the moderator and doubling down on why...
Wiretap: Debate prep for the masses
Do debates matter?
As we rush headlong toward tonight's big debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump – a mega-event expected to draw Super Bowl-like...
Wiretap: The bombing, the bag, the Boss, and 3.64 billion Skittles
Sane calculations
Adam Gopnik writes in The New Yorker that the typical New Yorker's response to the Chelsea bombing was not simply "bold" or "courageous,"...
Wiretap: New York bombings, Pepe the Frog and why Obama is...
Maximum chaos
Officials can't yet seem to agree whether to call the New York City bombing a terrorist act. But the two bombs — one...
Wiretap: Downturns, upswings, and why Colorado won’t swing
Swing, swing
Colorado: The state that fell off the electoral map, or so writes the great Molly Ball in The Atlantic in wondering why the...
Wiretap: On illness, islamophobia, Putin, fear, loathing, and baskets and baskets...
So, Hillary Clinton is ill. She has pneumonia, which is nothing like aphasia, but it's a diagnosis that, of course, she did not reveal...
Wiretap: Splitting tickets, dismantling public universities and cosmic butt-dialing
Divided loyalties
The Republican Party has bigger worries than just losing voters in the presidential race. Voting trends show that voters who stray from their...
Wiretap: Immigration, Trump-style; election hacking; White Lives Matter
Shifty business
In advance of Donald Trump’s visit to Mexico and his immigration speech later today, The Guardian puts months of immigration politics in context....