Dealing With Social Media Bots in Future Elections: A Guide
Illustration by Shelby Hohl What lurid posters and leaflet campaigns were…
Being Mean to Chelsea Clinton is Stupid
Chelsea Clinton. Photo: Lorie Shaull There was a piece that came…
Voting Democrat in Texas Isn’t a Waste
I am admittedly pretty damned hard on third party voters, and that isn’t going to change any time soon. As I said before, voting for a third party presidential candidate is the electoral equivalent to sending thoughts and prayers, a virtually meaningless act that meant to make the person saying it look sophisticated and free thinking even when the people they are voting for are really, really terrible applicants for the big chair of America.…
Don’t Vote Your Conscience If Your Conscience Sucks
Illustration by Shelby Hohl A little bit ago I wrote a…
Obsessing Over Candidates’ Health is Kind of Creepy
The nation was shocked this week when Hillary Clinton, a woman in her late 60s who regularly takes blood thinners and allergy meds, got a little woozy at an event where it was hot and took the afternoon off. Later, her campaign released a statement that Clinton had been traveling with pneumonia for three days.…
DNC Dispatch: The Storms in Philadelphia
The first day of the DNC convention was plagued with storms. The literal storm that hit Philadelphia was serious, with flash floods in some streets and power outages in various neighborhoods around the city. The political storms, however, were mostly tempests in teapots. Mostly.…
RNC: Dispatch #1
We decided to do our best Hunter S. Thompson and Norman Mailer impressions and do both the RNC and DNC conventions; a few weeks of frantic calling and emailing protest organizations, political candidates, and public officials ensued.…
And the Losers Are…
It would have been nice to hear actual debate on fundamental disagreements on issues, but instead we became the viewing audience at a elaborately produced play paid for and choreographed by PACs and rich people. Every few years, the audience gets to vote, choosing between a party that proudly proclaims empty nationalist rhetoric, and a party that stands weakly and ambivalently for some things that matter.…
