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Why Sports Media Shunned Kamala Harris December 23, 2024
A few of you sent me this Max Tani interview with a Kamala Harris campaign manager in Semafor. It’s about as open as you’ll see from the losing side. The campaign’s inability to court sports podcasters is highlighted. Deputy campaign manager Rob Flah...
It’s Not Because She’s a Woman November 07, 2024
There was a moment last night, shortly before the major news networks begrudgingly announced that Donald Trump had won the state of Pennsylvania, when the journalists manning MSNBC’s election desk began looking a bit uneasy. The writing was on the wa...
Stories to Live By November 05, 2024
Just in the last few days, I started seeing a rash of articles and Substack posts with very similar titles: “Kamala Harris Will Win on Tuesday, and It Won’t Be Close” or “Donald Trump WILL Be Defeated on Election Day.” Of course, polling at the time ...
America’s Crisis of Leadership November 05, 2024
The biggest single crisis facing the United States on the eve of the election does not come from Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. It does not come from our enemies abroad. It does not come from our dissensions at home. It does not come from unfunded en...
Let’s Get This Party Started November 05, 2024
The $30 ticket to Maria Bruggere’s election party in Los Angeles guarantees attendees an unlimited number of both “Pina Kamalas” and “Kamalaritas.” An open taco bar will be on-site, alongside photo booths, a dessert menu, and a merchandise shop brimm...
The Best Precedent for the Next President November 04, 2024
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are both intimately familiar with the White House—Trump as a former president, Harris as next-in-line to President Biden—but the 235-year record of the presidential office has much to teach even these experienced leader...
The Untethering November 04, 2024
One question I’ve wrestled with, as a writer, is how another Trump presidency would subsume the arts. As I’ve offered already, I do not know who will win the presidential election and speculation like this shouldn’t be taken as an assertion that Dona...
In the Grip of Madness November 04, 2024
Conservatives give Kamala Harris and her allies too much credit when they say she is gaslighting Americans by insisting that Donald Trump is the second coming of Adolf Hitler and that his tens of millions of supporters are budding brown-shirts.Gaslig...
The AI Chatbots Are Rooting for Kamala November 04, 2024
Silicon Valley may pride itself on being a home for people who think outside the box. Yet when it comes to the hottest product in tech right now—artificial intelligence chatbots—there’s a stunning amount of political groupthink.The country is evenly ...
Let Them Eat Joy August 26, 2024
The Democratic National Convention, which just wrapped up in Chicago with the nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris for president, positively glittered. The event was chock full of celebrity politicians, musicians, movie stars, millionaires, and...
Garrison Keillor on Tim Walz August 26, 2024
The upper Midwest had a moment in the sun at the 2024 Democratic National Convention. Michigan and Wisconsin have a good chance of being the states that decide the election. And with Minnesota governor Tim Walz as Vice President Kamala Harris’s runni...
Death by Vibes August 20, 2024
Breadlines are brat. Are you cuckoo for Coconut? Are you brat? Does the joy of a kind-hearted wine aunt running for president, or her folksy grandpa running mate who once read to a class of kindergartners for a photo op, make you “happy”? Early last ...
The March of Kamala’s Brides August 19, 2024
In a recent appearance before the National Association of Black Journalists, Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump caused a furore by questioning the racial “identity” of Democrat Kamala Harris. “Is she Indian or is she black?” Trump wondere...
Language and the Politics of the Swarm August 19, 2024
Last week, I learned the term “murmuration.” It refers to the simultaneous movement of a large group of birds, typically starlings, who fly and change direction together. I’m clearly no ornithologist, but I’ve been thinking about this phenomenon late...
The 2024 Election Is a Marvel Universe August 16, 2024
Donald Trump has a promise for Christian voters: if they vote for him, just this once, they’ll never have to vote again.“Just this time!” Trump squawked last month, as the crowd cheered. “You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know wha...
Nate Silver Knows Who Will Win August 14, 2024
It’s a gray and muggy Sunday afternoon, and Nate Silver had just a few hours earlier republished his widely followed election model. After months of Trump’s being ahead, Kamala Harris was his new front-runner with a 52.8 percent chance of victory. No...
What I Saw at ‘White Dudes for Harris’ August 01, 2024
Monday night, I watched the livestream of the “White Dudes for Harris” fundraiser. Our host, a thirtysomething political operative with a man-bun and a beard, was upfront: some people didn’t feel comfortable with this event. But, he argued, white men...
Brat Summer Will Go Down in Internet History August 01, 2024
Jake Tapper looked as flummoxed as everyone else. After a week spent trying to figure out the whys and hows of the assassination attempt against former US president Donald Trump, the CNN anchor was now facing something far more perplexing: why a Brit...
No, Kamala Harris Is Not ‘Brat’ July 24, 2024
Kamala Harris is a brat—but you must understand, this is supposed to be a good thing. After the VP announced she’d be running for president, the singer Charli XCX tweeted: “Kamala Harris IS brat,” “brat” being both the title of the pop artist’s strat...
