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Trump University, Pence and Hamilton, and Turkeys Gone Wild

Past Present: Episode 61

December 2, 2016 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this week's episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki debate the Trump University fraud settlement, Mike Pence's reception at Hamilton, and the wild turkey's distaste for the wild.

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Trump University, Pence and Hamilton, and Turkeys Gone Wild

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The Day After

November 9, 2016 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

I didn’t sleep much last night. I think it was near 4 am when I was finally able to shut off the lights after watching Trump’s victory speech. Perhaps I slept fitfully for a few hours. I don’t know. My mind raced through so many scenarios, so many questions. And ...

Am I a Bigot?

November 9, 2016 • by Benjamin Evans

Waking up today after last night’s stunning election of Donald Trump, I noticed a quote floating up from one of the various turbo-charged news sites I’ve been looking at and it got me thinking. Rob Dreher, apparently an editor at “The American Conservative,” argued that many mainstream journalists failed to ...

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The Mo(u)rning After

Finding Words for Political Disaster

November 9, 2016 • by Claire Potter

Waking up in a state of mourning after Donald Trump's horrifying victory in yesterday's presidential election has caused me to take refuge in one of my favorite childhood movies. The Poseidon Adventure was released in 1972, as political life in the United States was turning from explosion to implosion. This cheesy ...

Theory & Practice

The Spectacle of Disintegration

November 9, 2016 • by McKenzie Wark

Everyone I know was sad and shocked and disbelieving when Donald Trump did so well in the 2016 election. Whatever happened was not quite what the models predicted. It may take some time to figure out what part of this was driven by a rage whose roots are in experiences ...

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Adventures in Hillaryland

High expectations. Unexpected failure.

November 9, 2016 • by Jo Freeman

I vote in Brooklyn. When I heard that Hillary’s election night watch party would be in the Javits Center on the Hudson River, I thought that somewhere in that 1.8 million square feet arena there might be room for me. In all the Presidential elections I’ve worked in, I’ve never been ...