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Trump Time Capsule #147: 'Scion'
Late to this for family reasons, but catching up on an actually astonishing development:Through the campaign, Donald Trump at times seemed more interested in promoting his business interests than in...
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Are America's Small Towns Really Struggling?
The job market in the United States is constantly shifting—especially in small towns that were once totally reliant on large factories for jobs. While politicians focus on failing industries, things...
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The Resentment at the Heart of Today’s Philippine-U.S. Tensions
Through many decades the consciousness, the cultural and immigration-pattern ties, the economic relations, and most other international connections from people of the Philippines have been dominated by...
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The Generational Difference in Optimism: A Video Look
I hope you'll check out the second in the series of short films that TheAtlantic’s video team has done with my wife Deb and me, as we’ve been on the move around the country during the election year....
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Trump Time Capsule #148: ‘Rosebud,’ and Hillary
With only 13 full days to go until the election, with many millions of early votes already cast, and with all apparent trends running against Donald Trump, it’s time to begin tapering off the Time...
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Trump’s ‘Rosebud’: What Happened?
Yesterday, in installment #148 of the time capsules, I contrasted circa-2008 videos of a (comparatively) thoughtful-sounding Donald Trump with the splenetic buffoon we see today, and asked, What...
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Do Debates Matter? Maybe This Time
The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, one year after The Atlantic’s founding, “mattered” in American history because of the ideas they advanced. (Stephen Douglas held onto his seat in the Senate; not...
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Annals of Renewal: MTP Podcast, Knight Competition
The interior of America was exciting for Albert Bierstadt and the imaginative landscape painters of the 19th century. It's newly exciting, in a different way, now. ('Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains,'...
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Trump Time Capsule #149: ‘Cancel the Election’
Donald Trump was of course “joking” when he said yesterday in Toledo, Ohio, that “we should just cancel the election and just give it to Trump, right? What are we even having it for?”In the clip below,...
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White Nationalists on Twitter
From Demographics ProVehement Trump supporters abound on Twitter. That much is obvious to anyone who has used the service. Who exactly they are, and how broad a swath of society they represent, has...
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Clinton Time Capsule #1: Lessons Learned?
This is an item I wrote last night but was too busy to look over and check this morning, so I didn’t post it. Then I was in meetings all day. I’m posting it now with a new opening paragraph in the wake...
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Who's a 'White Nationalist'? Readers Weigh In
In northern Wisconsin recently: two deer, same species, different hues. Read on to learn what they have to do with the campaign. (Reader photo, with permission.)Yesterday I mentioned a social-media...
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Refugees, Immigrants, and the Battle Over Who Is American
Deb Fallows has a new post up, about what’s actually involved in settling immigrants from Syria—or Somalia or Congo or Bhutan—in the American cities that have taken the lead in doing so. It’s based on...
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Trump Time Capsule #150: James Comey and the Destruction of Norms
The rules in politics haven’t changed that much in recent years. What has changed is adherence to norms, in an increasingly destructive way.I made that case, using examples different from the ones I’m...
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Trump Time Capsule #151: Director Comey’s Uneven Sensitivities
Presented with minimal elaboration, today’s installment of the “what is Director Comey thinking?” saga:CNBC report, on Halloween 2016This story is still in the “unnamed sources say...” category, though...
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Update on the Eastport Saga
A view of Eastport, with the old sardine cannery, the Tides Institute and Museum of Art, a former bank, a new restaurant, and more. (Courtesy of Tides Institute and Museum of Art)The Boston Globehad a...
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A Third-Party Voter Makes His Case (and I Dissent)
A reader in New York writes about the way he is casting his vote. He also asks a question, for which my answer is below.From the reader:As a two-time Obama voter and Obama fan, I am not at all...
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A Renewable Energy Revolution in Small-Town America
A move towards sustainable energy is often talked about as an issue for big government, especially during the 2016 election. However, across the United States, progress is being made in biofuel, wind,...
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What the Renewable-Energy Economy Looks Like
At its peak, nearly one century ago in 1920, the coal-mining industry employed nearly 800,000 people in the United States. Decade by decade, as America’s population has swelled and its economy has...
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Trump Time Capsule #152: The End
Five and a half months ago, as Donald Trump effectively clinched the Republican nomination, I thought it would be worth keeping track day-by-day of what the American public knew about Trump while it...
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