Donald Trump Exploited Long-Term Economic Distress to Fuel His Election Victory, Study Finds
A working paper from the Institute for New Economic Thinking sheds new light on the ways that economic distress motivated Trump voters in the 2016 election.
Politics
The Dialysis Industry Is Spending $111 Million to Argue That Regulating It Would Put It Out of Business
California Proposition 8 would cap what outpatient clinics can charge dialysis clinics. The industry is spending aggressively to prevent that.
Voices
After Last Week, There’s No Hope That the Media Will Ever Abandon False Equivalencies With the Far Right
“You guys do it, too,” NBC’s Chuck Todd told a Democratic representative, referring to anti-Semitic incitement — personifying a media false equivalence.
Intercepted Podcast
Donald Trump, Fascism, and the Doctrine of American Mythology
This week's guests are historians Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Jason Stanley, writer Adam Johnson, and punk musician Julian Cashwan Pratt.
Local Paper and Interfaith Leaders Blast Iowa Rep. Steve King: “Those Were Not Easy Words for Us to Write”
On Friday, the editorial board of the Sioux City Journal broke from tradition and endorsed Scholten: “Those were not easy words for us to write.”
A Billionaire-Backed Democrat Is Facing Off Against a Democratic Socialist in Berkeley. And It's Getting Rough.
A race in Berkeley, California has become a microcosm of the struggle for control of the Democratic Party.
After Pittsburgh Massacre, Netanyahu Faces Backlash for Endorsing Trump and Smearing Soros
By refusing to admit that conspiracy theories about George Soros are anti-Semitic, Israel's prime minister has given cover to Donald Trump's dark musings.
Total Democratic Control of Colorado Comes Down to Five Women
Colorado is just two Senate seats away from achieving a Democratic trifecta — unified control of the state House, Senate, and governor’s seat.
Fox News Has Done More to Incite Domestic Political Violence Than Donald Trump
The origins of Fox News’s insidious role can be traced to a 1970 memo from the Nixon White House and Roger Ailes.
Voices
Never Trust a Reporter Who Bounces in His Chair With Glee
Axios’s gleeful use of Donald Trump’s latest xenophobic policy announcement as a PR tool for its new HBO show is grotesque.