“She doesn’t have the stamina,” alleged the man standing across from Hillary Clinton at Monday’s presidential debate. “To be president of this country, you need tremendous stamina.” This charge, levied by a sniffling, obese septuagenarian against a life-long civil servant and two-time presidential candidate, is obviously false. It was an attempt to distract from moderator … Read more
If Donald Trump’s goal in the first presidential debate was to win the votes of traditionally Democratic groups like African Americans, Latinos, and women, he missed the mark by a significant margin. When asked about racial conflict and implicit police bias, Trump responded, “I think that I’ve developed very, very good relationships over the last … Read more
“African-Americans and Hispanics are living in hell.” That was Republican nominee Donald J. Trump, an affluent white man, on the living conditions of two minority groups in America. When he made the comment at Monday night’s first presidential debate in the general election, I felt compelled to take a quick glance about my surroundings to … Read more
In Monday night’s presidential debate, Donald Trump said, “Secretary Clinton doesn’t want to use a couple of words: law and order.” This is not exactly a statement that one would expect to hear from the man who encouraged his supporters to “rough up” a protester or threatened violence against Hillary Clinton. It is, however, a … Read more
On Monday night, on the stage at Hofstra University, Hillary Clinton made a joke. “I have a feeling that by, the end of this evening, I’m going to be blamed for everything that’s ever happened,” she quipped. His lips pursed, his face smug, Donald Trump replied, “Why not?” That brazen disregard for integrity set a … Read more
If there’s one thing viewers should not have been surprised by on Monday night, it’s that Hillary Clinton does best when she’s under attack. Yes, the Democratic nominee has had more practice responding to vitriol than almost any public figure. But it’s meaningful that David Graham of The Atlantic said Tuesday morning that the last … Read more
If Monday’s debate were about policy, Hillary Clinton took the cake. If the debate were about how to create more well-paying jobs for all Americans, Clinton went into detail about her plan to raise the minimum wage, encourage profit-sharing, mandate family leave, and make it easier to repay student loans. If it were about mitigating … Read more
In the first U.S. presidential debate of the 2016 election cycle, candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump coined several new terms and phrases . Trump, who once boasted having the “best words,” introduced the term “bigly” to mean the adverbial form of the adjective “big.” Clinton, for her part, introduced the term “Trumped-up trickle down … Read more
If you were one of the 84 million people who tuned into Monday’s debate, you could be excused for thinking you were watching hooligans at a soccer match. I am not talking about the candidates. Rather, I am referring to the audience. Unlike the politically charged audience at primary debates, the audience’s role at a … Read more
Events in Turkey dominated the news this past weekend, as the country experienced its first military coup in 19 years. Tanks rolled into the streets, a military helicopter was shot down by fighter jets, and gunfire echoed throughout the country as the armed forces attempted and failed to wrest power from the government. At least … Read more