Tag Archives: Trump

The economic divide exploded into the sunlight with the ascendance of the Tea Party movement, identified more or less with the right wing, and the Occupy movement on the left. The difference between those two phenomena was more cultural than philosophical.

This election has proven Donald Trump’s contention that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any support.

Trump's victory has been described as a populist revolt. Yet Clinton won a majority of the popular vote.

We awake this morning to a new reality: President Elect Trump.

They want for their offspring the kind of America they had for themselves – an America where the white man was king and the white woman was his grateful ally.

"Man up." What a curious phrase to use in the context of a wave of accusations of sexual harassment and assault.

Hillary Clinton shouldn't expect to score major political points by implying, or even showing, that Donald Trump doesn't pay his personal income taxes. It just puts him in a place where we all, at least on some level, wish we could be.

Those who respect the New York Times's journalistic integrity will do so even more if it begins to include among "all the news that's fit to print" calling out the lies, even the petty ones, told to the American people by those who aspire to lead them.

Election 2016 may go down as the Year of the Tweet, as the miniature messages have become a weapon of choice for all the candidates running for president. If you'd like to get into live tweeting, here are my techniques for setting yourself up, what software to use, and how to be a more effective Twitter communicator.

Donald Trump has lost touch with his inner self. He has what Parker J. Palmer refers to as “the empty-self syndrome.” This empty self is constantly and chronically hungry but the host lacks utter awareness of his own hunger. This is what makes Trump, and so many other bullies utterly dangerous.