Category: Politics
With Trump, Everything Requires Revision
by Rick Perlstein | Dec 1, 2015 | Politics, RickipediaPhoto Credit: Gage Skidmore One of the reasons I’ve been writing so much about the Donald Trump phenomenon has little to do with Trump himself. Rather, it concerns a subject of deeper fascination to me: the moeurs of America’s pundit class. That in any given era, the content of their opinioneering says more about […]
The Secret to Trump’s Ratings
by Rick Perlstein | Nov 30, 2015 | PoliticsImage Credit: Edel Rodriguez If you’re a reader of this publication, there’s a good chance you haven’t heard of talk-radio star Colin Cowherd. Cowherd’s daily sports commentary is consumed by 2.5 million listeners during the mid-day hours, when he competes with Rush Limbaugh––in more than one sense. Another professional blowhard, Cowherd was dumped from ESPN Radio in […]
Profiles in Political Cowardice (or Expedience)
by Lou Dubose | Nov 20, 2015 | National Security, Politics, The IntervalPhoto Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division; Harris and Ewing Collection Forty-seven Democrats turning their backs on principle—and on their president—in Thursday’s House vote on an “Arab Exclusion Act” reminded me of a conversation I had with the late Maury Maverick Jr. Maverick was a San Antonio civil rights lawyer, son of New […]
Gimme Shelter: Hatred of Refugees is an American Tradition
by Rick Perlstein | Nov 19, 2015 | Foreign Policy, Politics, Rickipediaphoto: Josh Zakary Republican governors and presidential candidates are tripping over each other to pronounce their horror at the prospect of accepting Syrian refugees, lest some terrorist slips through. Which is, of course, insane: what aspiring suicide bomber would submit himself to the 18-month to three-year vetting process it takes to get refugee status when a […]
Bibi Back in Washington
by The Washington Spectator | Nov 9, 2015 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsOn November 9, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu returns to Washington, this time to the White House at the invitation of Barack Obama. Netanyahu’s previous trip, in early March of this year, was a foreign policy coup for Speaker of the House John Boehner, who invited Netanyahu to address Congress without consulting the White House––and an […]