Elspeth Reeve
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Tay Exposes the Fairy Tales We Tell Ourselves About Racists
Microsoft's aborted bot offers a window into the minds of Donald Trump's fiercest supporters. → Read More
Look, Donald Trump seriously doesn’t care what you say about his hands, he doesn’t, honestly, it’s just that you mentioned it, and...
It’s not that he can’t stop talking about how his hands are perfectly fine—almost large, actually, but he buys a glove sized slightly smaller than large—you might call it a medium—it’s that everyone else keeps talking about his hands. For decades now, people have been making jokes about Trump’s hands, really only Graydon Carter at Vanity Fair, but other people too, and Trump just has to defen... → Read More
A middle-schooler’s hand-drawn Ted Cruz campaign poster asks the most important question about stopping ISIS: “How?”
This photo has been going around Tumblr with the caption, “The middle schoolers had to make campaign posters for the candidates and my favorite one is anime Ted Cruz.” Anime Ted Cruz is indeed very funny. But my favorite part is the haunting question, which is at the center of 2016’s foreign policy debate. All the candidates agree that ISIS is bad. No one wants to get into specifics about how... → Read More
There are three phases of Donald Trump metaphors: drunk uncle, carnival barker, and Hitler.
Everyone loves a good metaphor. → Read More
Don’t Be So Sure Hillary Clinton Will Crush Donald Trump
What if an ideologically fluid celebrity candidate has changed the rules of the game? → Read More
Donald Trump cannot be happy if he doesn’t win absolutely everything.
Despite crushing Marco Rubio in Florida and forcing him out of the race, Trump’s mood was a little meh on Tuesday night. He was off his game. “We need the rich in order to make the great again, I’m sorry to tell you,” he said, and the crowd was a little confused. “We’re gonna win, win, win,” he said at the end, more as if it were a chore than his reason for living.Why wasn’t Trump psyche... → Read More
The case of the Trumpless ballots in Florida is the perfect Trump story.
The Florida Secretary of State’s office was forced to explain how primary voting works in the state on Tuesday. Donald Trump had tweeted, “A lot of complaints from people saying my name is not on the ballot in various places in Florida? Hope this is false.” As usual, Trump didn’t do a lot of fact-checking before tweeting. Florida has a closed primary. If you don’t request a Republican ba... → Read More
Poor Marco Rubio keeps getting punished for all the things Donald Trump is rewarded for.
Rubio was "visibly exasperated" about it. → Read More
Poor Marco Rubio keeps getting punished for all the things Donald Trump is rewarded for.
Rubio was "visibly exasperated" about it. → Read More
Why Donald Trump is Hillary Clinton’s Dream Opponent
Trump vs. Clinton will be the boys vs. girls election—and that's scary news for the GOP frontrunner. → Read More
Donald Trump, who brags he said “don’t do Iraq,” says he wants a quick ground war against ISIS.
How many troops would we need on the ground? “I would listen to the generals, but I am hearing numbers of 20-30,000,” Trump said in the CNN debate on Thursday night. He followed John Kasich saying we need to show “shock and awe” in the region that was destabilized by shock and awe only 13 years ago.Trump has been campaigning on his foreign policy wisdom by claiming he opposed the Iraq war in… → Read More
How nervous is Marco Rubio tonight? Just look at this smile.
The line on Rubio is that he’s over-practiced and slick, but every once in a while, he slips a little, like when he repeated the same “dispel with this fiction” talking point several times in one debate. That’s why this one fraction of a second—above, and which I’ve slowed down slightly—from tonight’s CNN debate caught my eye. Rubio stumbled in his opening lines, saying, “Every election ... → Read More
Donald Trump promised to grow the Republican Party, and the scary thing is he’s already doing it.
In his Super Tuesday victory press conference, Trump bragged about winning, as usual, but he also bragged he’d won among people who didn’t usually vote Republican. “We’re going to be a much bigger party,” Trump said. “Our party is expanding.” It would be “more inclusive” and “more unified.” There’s something to that, if you have a very particular definition of “inclusive.” A RAND survey ... → Read More
Hillary is positioning herself as the anti-Trump, promising to “tear down barriers” instead of building a wall.
After her huge victory over Bernie Sanders in the South Carolina primary on Saturday night, Clinton declared, “We don’t ever need make America great again—America is already great!” It was just this week that the whole world woke up to the terrifying realization that not only is Donald Trump likely to win the Republican nomination for president, he could actually get elected. But Clinton appe... → Read More
Donald Trump is so confident he let Melania speak in South Carolina tonight.
Trump has mostly kept his wife on the sidelines during the Republican primary. He’s one of the first candidates in decades who doesn’t really talk about his spouse as his “secret weapon,” which makes sense, given that he’s been campaigning against immigrants, and even attacked Jeb Bush for speaking Spanish. Melania is Slovenian. The New York Times called her “the Silent Partner.”But after win... → Read More
The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens
How Tumblr's most popular teen comedy geniuses struck it rich—then lost it all. → Read More
The Time I Met Bernie Sanders at Hillary Clinton’s Party and I Chased Her Down the Stairs
A reporter reminisces about an early encounter with the Democratic presidential candidates → Read More
Bernie killed it on the final debate question and Hillary... didn’t.
PBS elevated this question from a random Facebook person: “Can you name two leaders, one American and one foreign, who would influence your policy decisions?” Sanders could have trolled all of conservative media by answering “Neville Chamberlain.” He didn’t do that, but he also did more than name uncontroversial dead presidents. His answer was inspiring, a case against defeatism.Franklin Delano… → Read More
Here are seven sentences that explain American politics better than this one from Donald Trump.
The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent points to a line from a recent Trump speech as a neat encapsulation of the 2016 election, and puts it under the headline, “Donald Trump explains American politics in a single sentence.” It is a fun game to guess what pearl of Trumpian wisdom this sentence might possibly be. Alas, the answer is not that exciting. Speaking of Bernie Sanders, Trump sa... → Read More
Donald Trump is finally happy, because he has friends.
“So beautiful, so beautiful,” Trump said, looking out over his New Hampshire victory party. “I love the people of New Hampshire. ... I love the people. I actually think they like me a lot. ... I have so many friends up here. They are special, special people.” The weird thing was, he sounded sincere.Trump gave his typical stump speech after winning the primary on Tuesday. But recently he’s added… → Read More