Will Women Save Us From Donald Trump?
In the New York Review of Books, Judith Shulevitz rounds up some of the current research on the resistance: The Harvard political scientist Theda Skocpol [studied] counties that went for Trump in four states that went for Trump: Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. Skocpol says she was startled to find so many flourishing anti-Trump…
New Yorker: Roy Moore Was Banned From Local Mall in the 70s “Because He Repeatedly Badgered Teen-age Girls”
This is, for now, just unconfirmed gossip, but Charles Bethea writes at the New Yorker that in the late 70s and early 80s, Roy Moore cruised his local mall so obsessively that at one point he got himself banned: This past weekend, I spoke or messaged with more than a dozen people—including a major political…
Donald Trump Jr. Channeled WikiLeaks for the Trump Campaign
Albin Lohr-Jones/Avalon via ZUMA Last September, WikiLeaks sent a private direct message to Donald Trump Jr. via Twitter, suggesting that he look into a new anti-Trump site. This site, as it happens, is now part of Mother Jones, and Don Jr. promised to ask around about it. Which he did. Then, according to Julia Ioffe…
Another Shoe Drops on Roy Moore
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA I’m late getting to this, but here’s the latest on Roy Moore: A fifth woman has come forward to accuse former Alabama chief justice Roy Moore of inappropriate sexual conduct. Beverly Young Nelson, 55, said Moore, now a candidate for the U.S. Senate, assaulted her when she was a 16-year-old…
Evangelicals Love Roy Moore Even More Following Abuse Allegations
David Atkins: Yesterday I wrote that Roy Moore’s behavior was in keeping with hardcore conservative evangelical culture of sanctioned patriarchal sexual abuse. I have also stated that the release of the Access Hollywood tape almost certainly actually helped Trump with some evangelicals because, despite being a philandering adulterer, Trump established a more fundamental cultural rapport…
Chart of the Day: California’s Mysteriously High Gasoline Prices
This chart illustrates a mystery: Because of special formulation requirements, California gasoline is always more expensive than gasoline in the rest of the country. As you can see, from 2010 through 2015 it averaged about 36 cents more per gallon. In February 2016, an explosion at a refinery in Torrance took 10 percent of California’s…