Hate Crimes Spike After the Election
And the most common place for them to occur, after sidewalks and streets, is in our elementary and…
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The Case for ‘Normal’ Elections Under a President Donald Trump
Our default position for the upcoming elections in 2018 and 2020 should not be that Trump will self-immolate…
President-Elect Donald Trump Takes on the Rust Belt
Saving 800 jobs in Indiana cost Trump another 1,300 and who knows what else. By Jim Russell Donald…
Hate Surges Online
Has the election of Donald Trump emboldened extremists? By A.C. Thompson & Ken Schwencke People protest in Washington,…
What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘Normalizing’ Donald Trump
A political science professor weighs in. By Jared Keller (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr) Ever since Donald Trump eked out…
The Story Behind Jared Kushner’s Curious Acceptance Into Harvard University
Daniel Golden wrote a book a decade ago about how the rich buy their children access to elite…
Don’t Lose Sight of the Real Biases in—and Problems With—Our Election System
Last week’s claims that votes in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania were hacked appear to have been pretty substantially…
The Sheriff Gets His Man
A mustachioed Ohio lawman who rails against undocumented immigrants is suddenly less of a fringe figure. He embodies…
Meet a Polling Analyst Who Got the 2016 Election Totally Wrong
Sam Wang opens up about political forecasting, eating crickets on live television, and what we can all learn…
What History Tells Us About the Time of Trump
A Boston College historian helps explain how we got to the present moment, and warns of what could…