We have done such a poor job of processing Donald Trump’s tweets. Our reaction has always been to immediately parse the literal content. Fact-check
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Trump’s London Times transcript: What he said vs. what they reported
In an attempt to sound like he knows something about foreign policy, Donald Trump sat for an interview with Michael Gove, of the Times
Trump’s incoherence on full display at press conference
Don’t rely on condensed and cleaned-up news reports of Donald Trump’s Jan. 11, 2017 press conference to give the full picture of his incoherent
Time’s edited transcript of Trump’s Person-of-the-Year interview: What’s missing?
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
My post on Trump’s NYT interview transcript went viral: Why?
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
Is there a link between belief in fake news and belief in religion?
The airwaves are currently filled with both outrage towards and defense of the fake news that has been competing with “real news” of the
Kingsolver: It’s too late to play nice
Barbara Kingsolver is one of my favorite writers, and she has to tour with a bodyguard because she dares to speak out about environmental
Trump’s NYT transcript: Read it, and weep for our country
I urge everyone to take the time to read the entire transcript of Donald Trump’s Nov. 23, 2016 on-the-record interview with the New York
The Scrawler strikes again: A Trumpian response to my letter to the editor
Found today in my mailbox—the snail-mail kind: A note in response to my recent letter to the editor in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The
My supposedly liberal local newspaper tells me to “get over it.” I won’t, and they shouldn’t.
In an editorial titled, “Trump’s new beginning,” on Nov. 11, 2016, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s editorial board advises people who are frightened by the