The Trump Scandal B-List
What follows is comprehensive summary of the B-List, the second-tier of still-interesting and definitely dangerous Trump scandals that have mostly avoided headlines.
Max Boot Upgrades His Network
In time, we’ll likely recognize malformed social networks as a problem on par with income inequality or rural poverty. Ironically, the same social media technologies that helped create this problem probably hold our most promising solutions.
Strange Days
All I can offer is a quick recap of a few high points.
Trump Surrenders In Trade War
The Great China Trade War will play out just like the North Korea nuclear negotiations and the re-naming of NAFTA, just another trademark Trump fraud, paid for by his supporters.
Link Roundup, 11/30/2018
A special ‘Trump Scandals’ edition of the roundup.
Karl Rove’s Frankenstein
One day we might decide to confront the racism at the core of our American experiment. Until then, it remains a lever to be pulled by ambitious cynics, a lingering threat to our health and survival.
Used Souls: The Market for Former Trump Aides
When you sell your soul, you better get a good deal because the second-hand market is brutal.
Should Be a Fun Thanksgiving
If you thought it took patience and restraint to deal with your obnoxious uncle in better times, just wait till he shows up in a MAGA hat.
Confrontation Works
For those pining to restore a pre-Trumpian order, a world whose Mitt Romneys and Joe Bidens share cordial dinners together behind a theatrical facade of faux partisan rivalry, my advice is to go home and wait this out.
Now It Gets Ugly: Attack the Money
As Trump and the Republicans scramble to escape the consequences of their crimes, we should ensure that this fight extends all the way to their bank accounts. Make bigotry expensive and it will recede from public life.