Category: Politics
Rumble in the Alt-Right Thunderdome
by Hannah Gais | Aug 26, 2016 | Election 2016, PoliticsPhoto Credit: Official Trump card With several months of election-related chaos to go, Hillary Clinton took to the stage in Nevada to call out a crackpot movement of Trump supporters that few people have even heard of. On Thursday, the Democratic nominee gave a speech in Reno, Nevada, decrying the so-called alt-right (short for […]
A Dim Attack on Dumb Policy
by Scott Ritter | Aug 24, 2016 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsPhoto Credit: Senior Airman Matthew Bruch, U.S. Air Force There is a scene in Hal Ashby’s classic 1979 adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski’s novella Being There where the hapless Chauncey “the gardener” Gardiner, played by Peter Sellers, ends up at a meeting with the president of the United States. Complex policy discussions are taking place and […]
Hillary’s GOP Sympathies
by Rick Perlstein | Aug 22, 2016 | Election 2016, RickipediaPhoto Credit: Gage Skidmore When your opponent is drowning, the old saying goes, throw him an anvil. Is Hillary Clinton throwing hers a life raft instead? In May, the Democratic National Committee’s communication director Luis Miranda wrote to the DNC’s chief operating officer, Amy Dacey, with a serious complaint. The e-mail, part of the […]
First They Came for the Muslim-Americans
by Aviva Stahl | Aug 16, 2016 | National Security, PoliticsPhoto Credit: Thomas Hawk For those of us who think or write about surveillance, the events of May and June 2013 represented a crucial turning point in our sense of what was possible. Edward Snowden’s release of classified documents changed the way many Americans thought about their relationship to national security agencies. It shattered the […]
After the State Dinner
by Kirsten Han | Aug 15, 2016 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsLawrence Jackson While final preparations were under way for the 51st anniversary of Singapore’s independence on August 9, the White House hosted the nation’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at a lavish state dinner—the highest honor the U.S. government can give a visiting dignitary. Singapore is a tiny island country in Southeast Asia, but […]
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