Abbreviated pundit roundup: Acting with impunity
We begin today’s roundup with Barbara McQuade’s examination of Donald Trump’s latest comments regarding accepting foreign intelligence against a political opponent: Even sitting down and listening to...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Another Trump rally
Donald Trump has already declared he’s running again, and indeed, has been campaigning for reelection since he stepped into the White House. But he needs something to draw attention away from his poll...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Iran, the Federal Reserve, corruption and more
We begin today’s roundup with a piece by Jeet Heer in The Nation on the Trump administration’s approach to Iran:[T]he real key to Trump’s foreign policy is neither neo-isolationism nor subservience to...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: A world without consequence
We begin today’s roundup with Melinda Henneberger at USA Today who says the news industry shouldn’t become desensitized to assault allegations:Is a detailed rape allegation by a highly respected woman...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Deconstructing the SCOTUS decisions on...
We begin today’s roundup with law professor Richard Hasen’s analysis of the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold extreme partisan gerrymandering:The Supreme Court decision on Thursday in Rucho v. Common...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Ivanka's incompetence, Trump's foreign policy as...
We begin today’s roundup with Michael D'Antonio at CNN on Ivanka Trump playing government at the G20:Amid all the other craziness surrounding Donald Trump's foray onto the world stage this weekend,...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump's speech, Republican concern trolling and more
We begin today’s roundup with Jeet Heer at The Nation, who explains why Democrats don’t need and shouldn’t pander to people like David Brooks who claim the party needs to appeal to conservatives:The...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump's disastrous environmental policies
We begin today’s roundup with an analysis from Politico of Donald Trump’s environment speech, which, as expected, was full of lies:President Donald Trump praised his own environmental record on Monday...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Trump's citizenship question defeat
We begin today’s roundup with Jay Michaelson at The Daily Beast and his analysis of Donald Trump’s walkback from attempting to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census:What’s actually meaningful...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Republicans embrace Trump's racism
We begin today’s roundup with Eugene Robinson’s piece in The Washington Post about Donald Trump’s enablers in the Republican Party:Donald Trump’s presidency is melting down into a noxious stew of...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: GOP fails to denounce racist chants and tweets
We begin today’s roundup with John Harwood’s insight at CNBC on the GOP’s reaction to Trump’s racist tweets:With their votes this week, House Republicans absolved President Donald Trump of racism in...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Mueller's upcoming testimony
We begin today’s roundup with Jill Lawrence’s piece at USA Today, where she imagines what it would be like if special counsel Robert Mueller was able to tell us what he really thinks during his...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Mueller's testimony
We begin today’s roundup with Barbara McQuade at USA Today on the critical facts highlighted during the Robert Mueller’s testimony:Some people expressed disappointment that the former special counsel...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Continued fallout from Trump's racist attacks
We begin today’s roundup with Paul Krugman’s analysis of Donald Trump’s views on race:What I haven’t seen pointed out much... is that Trump’s racism rests on a vision of America that is decades out of...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Russia's continued attacks on our democracy
We begin today’s roundup with this editorial from USA Today on the urgent need to address Russia’s continued attacks on our democracy:The reality is that Russia launched a cyberattack in 2016, and the...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: House Republicans head for the exits
Another week of retirements for House Republicans...this time, it included Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX). We begin with David Graham’s analysis at The Atlantic:With Representative Will Hurd’s announcement last...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Nation calls for action in the wake of domestic...
We begin today’s roundup with The Washington Post’s editorial on the need for a change in tone, words and action from Donald Trump:The president’s words have wide and deep consequences. When he smears...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Combating violent white nationalism
We begin today’s roundup with John Allen and Brett McGurk, who were special presidential envoys for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS. In an op-ed in The Washington post, they write that defeating...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: The climate crisis, remembering Toni Morrison and...
We begin today’s roundup with Robinson Meyer at The Atlantic who analyzes the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report:1. There is no shortage of scary facts in the major new report on...
View ArticleAbbreviated pundit roundup: Assault weapons ban, ending the filibuster, and more
We begin today’s roundup with Joe Biden’s op-ed in The New York Times calling for a renewed ban on assault weapons:I fought hard to extend the assault weapons and high-capacity magazines bans in 2004....
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