Dick Polman
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Luckily for Trump, our election system is rigged
When the turkey gets cut next week, Donald Trump should be thankful that this country — in defiance of western democratic practice — ...
10 years ago
Young progressive Americans, from anger to resolve
The 60.9 million Americans who gave Hillary Clinton a useless popular vote victory woke up Wednesday to a nightmare, feeling as if their ...
10 years ago
The fatal weight of the Clinton baggage
The final tally tells the tale: Donald Trump was eminently beatable – but Hillary Clinton was the wrong candidate to do it. ...
10 years ago
The primal scream and what it means
Writing on Monday about the threat of authoritarianism, I concluded: “ ...
10 years ago
America votes: Which path will we choose?
If this is truly the path we prefer — an authoritarian sensibility, a strongman cult, a systematic breakdown o ...
10 years ago
Election countdown: A cacophony of voices
Opinions are like derrieres. Everybody has one. But not all opinions are equal. Some are clearly smarter, more perceptive, and mor ...
10 years ago
The fightin’ Founders took the low road, too
Politics are such a torment that I would advise everyone I love not to mix with them. Wait, that’s not me talk ...
10 years ago
Who do you believe, the Klan or the Nobel laureates?
Only a handful of newspapers in the entire country have endorsed Donald Trump — in Vegas (the paper is owned by an ally), Santa Barbara ...
10 years ago
Thumb on scale, continued: FBI stays mum about its Trump-Russia probes
FBI chief James Comey has wielded a bullhorn to blare the news (or non-news) about Anthony Weiner’s laptop – an announcement ...
10 years ago
Comey’s late hit: Abuse of power, thumb on the scale
Courtesy of James Comey’s abuse of power, the FBI has crafted a new legal standard: You’re guilty of unspecified innuendo, ba ...
10 years ago
Follow-up Friday: Chris Christie’s very squalid plummet
It’s darn lucky for Chris Christie that he signed on as manservant to a con artist extraordinaire, because if he were not currently ...
10 years ago
Trashing Trump: Bill Weld’s moderate Republican plea
At this point, what could possibly happen in this cracked campaign that we haven’t already seen? I dunno, maybe somebody will float ...
10 years ago
