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Rex Tillerson: What does he really think about climate change? Who knows?

December 14, 2016 Renee Shur 2016 Election, Energy, Environment One comment

Donald Trump’s pick of Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State sends a chilling message about the new administration’s commitment to addressing the challenges of

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With Trump, is there a line between business and government?

December 13, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Business, Environment, Good government, Government, Justice, Labor and unions, Taxes Leave a comment

The idea of a Donald Trump presidency has me musing about what we were supposed to learn in school. We were taught that capitalism

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It’s not surprising that now is the time that “Forgotten Americans” rose up

December 9, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Democracy, Democrats, Politics, Poverty, Republican Brain 5 comments

It should not surprise us that 2016 has been the year of the Trump voter. It could well have happened without Donald Trump. Just

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Trump and the triumphant “free market” Republicans

December 8, 2016 Susan Cunningham 2016 Election, Republicans, Trump Leave a comment

As I watch the disastrous choices DT is making for important positions in the federal government, I am more and more convinced the tea

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Time’s edited transcript of Trump’s Person-of-the-Year interview: What’s missing?

December 8, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Media, Transcripts, Trump 2 comments

What did Donald Trump really say during his Person-of-the-Year interview with Time magazine? We will never know, because Time has published only edited excerpts

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The party of identity politics needs to identify Trump voters

December 8, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Democrats, Demographics/Polls, Politics, Survey, Trump One comment

You have to name it before you can deal with it. That is sound advice often given by psychologists, sociologists, medical doctors, in fact

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My post on Trump’s NYT interview transcript went viral: Why?

December 7, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Ideas, Media, Trump 2 comments

Why did my recent post–featuring excerpts from the transcript of Donald Trump’s New York Times interview–go viral? I have a theory. But first, some

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Is there a link between belief in fake news and belief in religion?

December 6, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Media One comment

The airwaves are currently filled with both outrage towards and defense of the fake news that has been competing with “real news” of the

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How Trump figured out “What’s the Matter with Kansas?”

December 6, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Campaigns, Republican Brain, Trump Leave a comment

Ever since Thomas Frank’s “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” book came out in April, 2007, Democrats have been flummoxed about why so many Americans

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Electors

Here’s my letter to Electors: Now it’s your turn

December 5, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, ACA/Obamacare, Activism, Electoral College, Voting/Elections 3 comments

I’ve just sent the following letter to all 10 of Missouri’s presidential Electors. Missouri is so deep, deep red that I doubt that I’ll

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