Aubrey McClendon, The Gambler
A CEO crashing his car is an accident. A CEO crashing his car and dying a day after being indicted for criminal charges is not.
Daily Archive: March 3, 2016
Chemi Shalev: Trump’s Triumphs Demolish Netanyahu’s Fortress GOP Strategy – Haaretz
In the outgoing dogmatic GOP, Trump’s equivocations would have earned him a place in the all-time rogues gallery of Enemies of the Jewish People, somewhere between Obama and Father Coughlin. Today, Evangelicals shrug them...
How young ‘liberals’ could become racist right-wingers | Fusion
One of the most seductive myths in modern politics is that politics itself may one day end—that left will finally triumph over right, or right will defeat left, or moderates from both factions will...
Romney Condemns Trump
A grownup finally steps in. Bear in mind, this is an argument aimed at Republicans.
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Thomas B Edsall: Why Trump Now? – The New York Times
The tragedy of the 2016 campaign is that Trump has mobilized a constituency with legitimate grievances on a fool’s errand.
The Latest Front In Twitter’s War On Harassment: Weird Twitter – BuzzFeed News
Over the past year and a half, in response to bad press brought about by torrents of abuse often associated with Gamergate and the alt-right counterculture, Twitter has stepped up its effort to fight...
Huntsman, Trump, and the Limitations of a Two Party System – OTB
Readers likely recall Huntsman as being the “too liberal” GOP candidate back in 2012. So, on the one hand, I have to wonder how much his past association with the Obama administration (he was...
