Saturday, October 8, 2016

No More Years! No More Years!

It is the journalist's job to be an instant historian, to make sense of cultural shifts and political surges in real time. So two editors from New York Magazine compiled what they consider to be some of the most astute, insightful, and prescient political journalism from the past year.
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It is the journalist's job to be an instant historian, to make sense of cultural shifts and political surges in real time. So two editors from New York Magazine compiled what they consider to be some of the most astute, insightful, and prescient political journalism from the past year.
THE STATE OF THE UNION
THE BIG PICTURE
Eight Years In America: Hope And What Came After
nymag.com
An epic chronology of the political, cultural, and technological trends of the Obama era, including interviews with the President, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and other protagonists.
ALARMS
America Is A Breeding Ground For Tyranny
nymag.com
The clearest warning about how a Trump presidency could change America. Democracy, according to Sullivan, is like an ouroboros: Left to its own devices, it has a tendency to consume itself.
TRAUMA
The Grief That White Americans Can't Share
nytimes.com
A powerful, emotional, visceral response to the Alton Sterling shooting—a pain that even Hannah-Jones's well-meaning white friends could never understand.
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PLANET TRUMP
RALLY MONSTERS
Lost In Trumplandia
newrepublic.com
Reporter-goes-to-Trump-rallies practically became its own subgenre of journalism this year; but Lockwood has a poet's eye for the surreal quality of it all.
THE CARNIVAL
WATCH: Unfiltered Voices From Donald Trump's Crowds
nytimes.com
A sampling of the raw, aggressive atmosphere at Trump rallies.
AT TRUMP TOWER
Operation Trump: Inside The Most Unorthodox Campaign In Political History
nymag.com
Trump's campaign has flouted every norm in the political playbook. This is one of the first looks inside what was essentially a one-man show.
MEANWHILE IN CLINTON LAND
HER STRUGGLE
Hillary Vs Herself
nymag.com
A portrait of Clinton that wrestles with her inability to translate her on-the-ground presence, and yes even likability, to a national audience. "It's worth asking to what degree charisma, as we have defined it, is a masculine trait…"
THE ISSUES
The Future of America Is Being Written in This Tiny Office: Hillary Clinton's Policy Team
highline.huffingtonpost.com
Oh, yeah. There are actual policy issues at stake here!
PERCEPTION VS. REALITY
The Hillary Haters
slate.com
One interesting finding in this look at Hillary animus over the decades: Clinton is most hated when she's running for something; when she's actually doing a job, people like her.
ONE LAST THING...
ROAD TRIPS
The Open Road
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Remember John Boehner? The former Speaker posted this 6-second video of himself driving an RV to Youtube. He's probably happier than his successor Paul Ryan.
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