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Trump is reviled around the world.
Americans are locked into our traditions.
Protest is, at its core, designed to move policy.
Trump built Trump Tower using mob concrete, not Bethlehem steel.
Popularity has always been the key currency in choosing a president.
Trump is reviled around the world, as is the U.S. under his leadership.
Whether on guns, race, culture or feminism, there really are two Americas.
If I had to reduce 'Black Panther' to a single word, it would be 'glorious.'
Trump has humbled our country under the shadow of China's autocrat Xi Jinping.
For many Americans - many humans - Trump's presidency can often feel unbearable.
Local government is a gamble that can have disastrous consequences when it fails.
I think social media tools are helpful, so long as you pick your social media wisely.
There are few instances when American history offers us two clear sides of a moral line.
Trump is a big businessman. He's your boss or CEO, not one of your brothers on the line.
The abuse of congressional power for pure partisan gain has become a specialty of the GOP.
The Trumps have spent exactly zero percent of their lives caring about anyone other than themselves.
Hillary Clinton's time in the Senate indicates she is happier being a policy workhorse than a show horse.
Obama has presided over sweeping cultural advances, particularly in the rights of gay and lesbian Americans.
Republicans don't vote Republican because of Nancy Pelosi. They vote Republican because they are Republicans.
The Trump phenomenon might feel both interminable and unprecedented to Republican elites, but of course it isn't.
I multitask and always have the TV on in the background. If I need to focus, I generally have to turn off the TV.
Trump is beset by clear and alarming conflicts between his international business concerns and the national interest.
What White America and Black America wanted and expected from Obama were fundamentally different and opposite things.
I've written before that the president is our national avatar - a stand-in for what we believe we are, or want to be.
Trump is as hollow a vessel as there has ever been in the White House. His rule lacks even a shred of moral authority.
Whatever its cause, the media's general Hillary Clinton loathing is a foundational truth that would define her as president.
To be white in America is to assume, with total self-confidence and little afterthought, the personal ownership of public spaces.
Technology has made it a lot easier to be productive. It's incredibly helpful to be able to get little bits of information quickly.
We Americans think quite highly of ourselves, and nothing makes us think more of ourselves than our romantic view of our presidents.
Authoritarianism doesn't fall on a nation like a book falling from a shelf and striking you in the head. It rolls in like a slow tide.
Freedom is neither guaranteed nor automatic; not even in the United States. Left unguarded, it can slip away like a thief in the night.
The reversion of American society to a nation of the superrich and the rest... is straining the country in ways that go way beyond economics.
Trump is an erratic figure - seemingly fragile, consumed by his own unpopularity and desperate to somehow exceed Barack Obama in public acclaim.
Trump channeled ethno-populist rage as naturally and charismatically as George Wallace had during the 1960s, while seating a billionaire cabinet.
America is, in many ways, as much an idea as it is a country. And Americans have long marketed that idea around the world through our popular culture.
For millions of Americans who happen to be black or brown, that core bond of trust with the government that governs closest to you, is too often broken.
If Obama was fundamentally different from prior presidents, Trump seems to violate every tenet of what Americans have long sought as our national image.
As a media consultant to Republican presidents, Ailes proved a deft manipulator of racial fear. But it was in building Fox News that he found his calling.
To be sure, police do a dangerous job and take tremendous personal risks to safeguard the public. Most officers just want to do their jobs and go home alive.
Democrats may want working-class white Rust Belters to have good jobs at high wages with pensions and health benefits, but they can't make them vote that way.
Who in the GOP would complain if Trump federalizes 'stop and frisk' or encourages its proliferation in states using the power of the Justice Department purse?
To be white in America is to have the confidence to say, without a second thought: this space, this neighborhood, this city, this county, this country is mine.
Trump's affinity for Russia dates back at least to the late 1980s, during the time of the Soviet Union, and it intensified after his financial empire collapsed.
The work of anti-racism can only take place inside each individual soul, where we all try to grow into better people. There is no national tonic or instant cure.
American populist politics has a long tradition, from Andrew Jackson to Huey Long to Joseph McCarthy. But the politician Trump is most like could be George Wallace.
Dwight Eisenhower presented a face of America that was heroic and resolute; Ronald Reagan represented a return to confidence and glamour after the weary Carter years.
Of all the liberal resentments during the Obama years, one of the sharpest has been the failure to secure a public insurance option as part of the Affordable Care Act.
Trump's cabinet picks seem designed to unwind government itself, leaving the average citizen completely exposed and vulnerable to full exploitation by corporate interests.
From jazz, the blues, country and rock to Hollywood movies, culture has in many ways been our greatest export (or our most obnoxious one, depending on your point of view).
If a novel were written about Florida's administration of its healthcare for the working poor, an appropriate title might be: 'Don't get sick, and God help you if you do.'