By Shirley Leung, Boston Globe, November 21,2024 Ever since Donald Trump’s reelection, a word typically used to describe the economy of Russia is being applied to the United States: oligarchy. Yes, our capitalist system has been minting billionaires for decades, and they’ve long used campaign donations to cozy up to politicians. But with Trump retaking
By Stephen Collinson, CNN, November 3, 2024 The tumultuous 2024 election is ending with a contrast that encapsulates America’s fateful choice on election eve. Ex-President Donald Trump is darkening what is already the most dystopian closing argument in modern American history and flinging new and baseless claims that Democrats are cheating. Vice President Kamala Harris,
By Scot Lehigh, The Boston Globe, October 25, 2024 Americans who value democracy owe General John Kelly their gratitude for going public with information instrumental to an informed voting decision as this chaotic presidential campaign careens toward its close. Kelly, who first served as Donald Trump’s secretary of Homeland Security and then became his longest-serving
By Renée Graham, The Boston Globe, October 23, 2024. Call it normalizing or ‘sanewashing,’ but covering the former president as if he’s an ordinary nominee is journalistic malpractice. Donald Trump did not work the fry station in a McDonald’s on Sunday. He donned an apron, but the suburban Philadelphia restaurant was closed to the public.
By Greg Sargent and Michael ‘Tomasky, The New Republic, October 23, 2024. Last month, a GOP-friendly polling firm presented itself, and its data, in a highly unusual way. Rather than maintain a nominally neutral public-facing profile, this pollster acted more like a cavalry brigade for Donald Trump’s campaign. And the firm did so explicitly, openly,
By Luke Broadwater, The New York Times, October 19,2024 WASHINGTON — House Democrats on Friday accused former President Donald Trump of accepting “hundreds of unconstitutional and ethically suspect payments’’ through the Trump International Hotel in 2017 and 2018, moving weeks before the election to remind voters of the ethical issues raised by his refusal to
By Kimberly Atkins Stohr, Boston Globe, October. We can see the decline in the former president’s ability to hold a train of thought, speak coherently, or demonstrate a command of the English language, to say nothing of policy. So why are Republicans and the press holding Trump to a different standard than Biden? Donald Trump
By Adam NagourneyRuth Igielnik and Camille Baker, The New York Times, October 8, 2024. Voters are now more likely to credit Vice President Kamala Harris than Donald J. Trump with representing change and caring about people like them, as Ms. Harris takes a slim lead nationally in the race for the White House, according
By Peter Baker and Dylan Freedman Videos by Chevaz Clarke and Aaron Byrd, The New York Times, October 6, 2024. Former President Donald J. Trump vividly recounted how the audience at his climactic debate with Vice President Kamala Harris was on his side. Except that there was no audience. The debate was held in an
By Scot Lehigh, The Boston Globe, September 25, 2024. As the presidential campaign makes the fall turn into the home stretch, the focus is on folderol at the expense of the fundamental. Every homeowner knows that when it comes to preserving your home, it’s more important to repair the rot in your sills or the
By Renée Graham, The Boston Globe, September 18, 2024. For months, Springfield, Ohio, officials touted its annual CultureFest as an opportunity to “celebrate the rich ethnic diversity and heritage in our city, collaborate with global-minded Springfield residents,’’ and “cultivate a welcoming city for people from around the world.’’ That was before Donald Trump and Republican Senator
By Yvonne Abraham, Boston Globe, August 19, 2024. This went way beyond creepy long ago. The extremists who run the GOP are obsessed with our uteri. Like, weirdly obsessed. Their fixation is about more than forcing women to give birth whether we want to or not, though Lord knows they are plenty concerned with that.
Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times, August 16, 2024. The most consequential moment from Donald Trump’s glitchy interview with Elon Musk on Monday came during a discussion of government cost-cutting. “Well, you, you’re the greatest cutter,” Trump told Musk, before launching, apropos of nothing, into a reverie about how Musk dominates his employees. “They go
By Renée Grahm, The Boston Globe, August 4, 2024. Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota, who’s vying to be Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, is getting big props for giving his rejuvenated party the political buzzword of the moment: “weird.” In a series of recent public appearances, Walz has been tossing that word around like
By Elizabeth Svoboda, The Boston Globe, July 21, 2024. Since Donald Trump’s ascent nearly a decade ago, political discourse has thrummed with warnings of approaching American fascism. The talk has only grown louder since the former president’s attempted coup on Jan. 6, 2021, his vows to lock up political opponents, and his boosters’ 2024 campaign
By Charlie Savage, Reid J. Epstein, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, The New York Times, June 16, 2024. Opponents of Donald J. Trump are drafting potential lawsuits in case he is elected in November and carries out mass deportations, as he has vowed. One group has hired a new auditor to withstand any attempt by a second Trump administration to unleash
By Charlie Savage, Jonathan Swan, and Maggie Haberman, The New York Times, June 18, 2024. Donald Trump and his closest allies are preparing a radical reshaping of American government if he regains the White House. Here are some of his plans for cracking down on immigration, directing the Justice Department to prosecute his adversaries, increasing presidential power, upending America’s economic policies, retreating militarily
By Kimberly Atkins Stohr, Boston Globe, June 13, 2024. It’s a tale of two trials with very different endings: not for the defendants but for the rest of us. The convictions of former president Donald Trump and Hunter Biden, son of President Biden, have many things in common. But differences in how the former and
By Scot Lehigh, Boston Globe, June 3, Donald Trump was the defendant for the past five weeks in Manhattan. Now, American rationality is on trial. Trump, his attorneys, and a broad array of Republican elected officials are driving the ridiculous assertion that the former Republican president was tried and convicted at the behest of President
By Dean Obeidallah, CNN.com, May 27, 2024. Donald Trump is accustomed to adoring fans packing his rallies. These MAGA faithful — including some supporters who travel hundreds of miles to attend repeated rallies — are only too eager to laugh at his jokes and applaud his bombastic rhetoric. That’s why Trump being loudly and repeatedly jeered and heckled throughout his speech
Donald Trump has disqualified himself through his conduct and his character,