The Dems had the glamour in Philadelphia. That might not help them. Over the last fifty years, American presidential politics and celebrity have become intertwined to the point where they’re almost inseparable. From Marilyn Monroe serenading John F. Kennedy on his birthday in the 1960s, to the presidency of actor-turned-politician Ronald Reagan in the...
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Has any Republican presidential contender ever been so cuddly with the Russians? The gong show that is the 2016 U.S. presidential election continues with the opening of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. The City of Brotherly Love was transformed into the City of Sisterly Hate as demonstrators expressed disdain for nominee-in-waiting Hillary Clinton,...
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Is the Party over? The 2016 U.S. presidential election has become a contest not between Republicans and Democrats, but between the establishment and the independent voter. On both sides of the aisle, candidates representing the disenchanted, disenfranchised independent voter are thriving. And the populist wave they’re surfing is unlikely to abate by election day....
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