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Clinton's Dishonesty Costs Her the Midwest -- and the Election Nov. 18, 2016
Hillary Clinton lost the election in the Midwest. Donald Trump won 50 Midwestern electoral votes tha... Read More
Women Go Marching on Washington Nov. 18, 2016
WASHINGTON — Greetings from the bluest city in America — where Democratic melancholy run... Read More
Obama's Disconnects and Delusions Nov. 18, 2016
President Obama, in Greece, said world leaders should learn from the U.S. presidential election and ... Read More
The Federal Bureau of Political Investigation Nov. 17, 2016
When Hillary Clinton delivered a campaign post-mortem to her major supporters in a telephone confere... Read More
Leave Divisive Narrative Behind Us Now Nov. 16, 2016
Occasionally in the space of political discourse, convenient narratives replace actual facts, especi... Read More
Electoral College Belongs Back in 18th Century Nov. 16, 2016
A swanky bar in New York City. Dusk spreading across Central Park just across the street. Everything... Read More
Sexism? Misogyny? So Last Week Nov. 16, 2016
In the months leading up to the presidential election, the media coverage was full of references to ... Read More
Democrats Must Drop Identity Politics Nov. 15, 2016
What follows here is remarkably similar to what I had planned to write after an expected and prayed-... Read More
How 'Herding' Blinded Pollsters to Trump Win Nov. 13, 2016
SACRAMENTO — How did the national polls, which overwhelmingly predicted a Hillary Clinton vict... Read More
Reality Check for Democrats' Post-mortems Nov. 12, 2016
In spite of the inconvenient fact that when all the votes cast have been tallied (probably in early ... Read More
Donald Trump's Astounding Victory: How and Why Nov. 11, 2016
Astounding. That's the best word to describe the tumultuous election night and the (to most people) ... Read More
Democrats Have No One to Blame but Themselves for Trump Nov. 11, 2016
Though in many ways the 2016 presidential contest was an uprising against the establishment, let's f... Read More
If We Say We Want Inclusiveness, Let's Mean It and Practice It Nov. 11, 2016
I am uplifted by Tuesday's presidential election results because I believe we have a good chance to ... Read More
When Fantasy has Nothing on Real Life Nov. 11, 2016
The election of '16 was revealed as a Southern Gothic political tale If Tuesday were a novel, or eve... Read More
Hillary Lost Her Chance to Break American History Nov. 11, 2016
WASHINGTON — Wednesday brought a blue tragic morning, and 59 million people share my sorrow. W... Read More
Just Because You Lose Doesn't Mean You Stop Trying, or, 'Marian's Lesson' Nov. 11, 2016
If you think last Tuesday was bad, you might not have been around on election night in 1980. Now tha... Read More
Political Lessons of 2016 Nov. 11, 2016
The 2016 election is heralding a new Republican Party and a sharp reversal of roles. The Democratic ... Read More
There's No Wizard Behind the Curtain Nov. 10, 2016
As this column was first being drafted, voters all across the United States were streaming to the po... Read More
Well, It Is Over Nov. 10, 2016
WASHINGTON — Well, it is over! The most poisonous, slanderous, hate-filled American election o... Read More
