2016 U.S. election

  1. We Always Knew Who Trump Was (Medium)
  2. How Putin Played Donald Trump and the USA [Russian Roulette by Michael Isikoff and David Corn] (Medium)
  3. Meeting My Past Self While Rereading [The Trouble With Reality by Brooke Gladstone – in Medium – BAOS]
  4. On the astonishingly morally impoverished character of Donald Trump (DD)
  5. 25th Amendment: ‘Unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office’ (DD)
  6. Why people believe the president is mentally ‘unleashed’ (DD)
  7. Nonsense tweets from November 2017 (DD)
  8. James Comey: Trump presidency a “forest fire,” seen optimistically (DD)
  9. I still don’t know why you voted for him (response to op-ed) (DD)
  10. The moral hazard of working for a corrupt administration (DD)
  11. Review of Cliff Sims’ ‘Team of Vipers’ (2019) (DD)
  12. Comparing Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury with Bob Woodward’s Fear and Rage (BAOS)
  13. * Highlights of Bob Woodward’s ‘Fear: Trump in the White House’ and ‘Rage’ (DD)
  14. * Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff: The role of Steve Bannon – Trump never intended to win the election – The president’s odd behavior – Trump’s relationship with the media (DD)
  15. Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen: One rejected myth, one persistent myth (DD) & A search for new language (DMB) & Why I Get My News about Trumpism from Late-Night Comedy (Medium)
  16. Why Deal with the Devil? [It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump by Stuart Stevens – in Medium’s publication Curious]
  17. Responses to the anonymous White House insider who wrote the NYT op-ed published 5 Sept 2018 (DD)
  18. False claims by the Trump administration (DD)
  19. Who ‘war’ it better?: Why it’s bogus to tweet about military prowess, especially with these numbers (DD)
  20. Can the president use social media to promote other people’s books? (DD)
  21. The ‘quid pro quo’ in the Trump/Zelensky call transcript (DD)
  22. Who will testify about Trump’s quid pro quo? (DD)
  23. Is Trump’s time up? (impeachment 2019) (DD)
  24. On the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh (DD)
  25. He Always Prints His Name on the Matchbook (Medium)