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What Hillary could say about trade agreements

September 27, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Business, Hillary Clinton 2 comments

During the first Presidential debate of 2016, the one issue that Trump “won” was trade. Clearly, Hillary Clinton needs a better answer on this

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Traditionally Republican Cincinnati Enquirer endorses Clinton over Trump

September 23, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Media Leave a comment

In a break with its long tradition of endorsing Republicans, The Cincinnati Enquirer has endorsed Hillary Clinton for President. The Enquirer published its endorsement

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Trump, the great businessman? Maybe not

September 22, 2016 Bill Kesler 2016 Election One comment

One can always count on Robert Reich to make savvy observations about politics and finance. Bring the two topics together, and it makes for

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Please stop calling the 2016 election unprecedented: It’s what Trump supporters want to hear

September 18, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Campaigns, Media Leave a comment

I’ve been thinking about that word—unprecedented. It’s become a buzzword in the 2016 election. Reporters and newsreaders generally frequently use it, but it is

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Who can survive Trump bullying; not the press

September 8, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Just to get a conversation going, let’s say that the following Democrats can survive Donald Trump-type bullying: Bill Clinton Barack Obama Bernie Sanders  

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Hillary gets the short end of media coverage, in more ways than one

September 5, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Hillary Clinton, Media One comment

Hillary Clinton gets far less air time and far fewer column inches in  mainstream media coverage than does Donald Trump.  And while that’s a

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An inconvenient comparison: Germany then and the U.S. now

September 2, 2016 Pat Simons 2016 Election, History Leave a comment

We aren’t supposed to forget the past, and it’s so easy to see the differences between “Germany then” and “the U.S. now” that we

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It’s not fair to call Trump “crazy,” but …

August 15, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Campaigns, Democracy, Politics, Republican Brain One comment

The candidacy of Donald Trump poses a real question about the mental health of a political figure and who can try to analyze it.

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Muslim women say: “Trump, can you hear us now?

August 2, 2016 Hafsa 2016 Election One comment

When Khizr and Ghazala Khan took the DNC by storm, calling out Donald Trump’s imbecilic Islamophobic comments, the Donald struck back… with more imbecility.

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Memes: A new form of old-school propaganda

July 27, 2016 Adam Levin 2016 Election, Language/Words, Media, Politics One comment

We have to talk about memes. I’m not joking, I swear. It’s kind of disturbing how much of political discourse on social media is

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