Why Trump’s obsession with Obama is even more twisted than you think

Rome didn’t fall in a day. It collapsed over time, hollowed out by greed, distraction, corruption and ego. If America falls, it won’t be from war, disease or even an insurrection. It will be because one man couldn’t take a joke.
‘We shouldn’t blow this one’: why Democrats have a chance to retake the working class

Trump’s second election to the presidency sparked soul-searching among Democrats about why the party has continued to lose a range of traditional Democratic constituencies, especially voters without college degrees.
The insidious doublespeak of Trump’s freedom of ‘choice’

Freedom of choice is a venerable American value. Donald Trump’s attachment to it is, however, highly selective. Over the first four months of his administration, Trump has been eagerly promoting the expansion of choice in our economic lives.