A.G. GancarskiNovember 4, 2023
4min0
'He questions whether they are real. He’ll call them fake, and he thinks that they’re doing it to make him look bad.'
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A.G. GancarskiNovember 4, 2023
Noah PranskyAugust 5, 2019
6min518
The former Senator isn’t back in the game, but his leftover war chest is ready.
Mitch PerrySeptember 21, 2016
6min178
The New Yorker magazine has a story this week on what a President Donald J. Trump would do if elected in November. Writer Evan Osnos reports that Trump’s advisers are weighing several options for the “First Day Project” – where he would spend hours on inauguration day next January signing papers that “erases the Obama Presidency,” […]
Mitch PerryJuly 19, 2016
5min267
If I’m Joni Ernst, I’m a little p.o.’d this morning. The Iowa senator and some others came on to the stage at “The Q” last night at 11:15 p.m., as delegates were flooding out of the arena. They were leaving after hearing a very hawkish Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn rail against political correctness, among other […]
Ryan RayApril 25, 2016
10min358
When a prisoner told former Dade Correctional Facility counsellor Harriet Krzykowski about how the prison guards starved him and his fellow inmates, Krzykowski thought he must be paranoid. But as Eyal Press in the New Yorker writes, that wasn’t the half of it. Krzykowski worked in the facility’s “Transitional Care Unit,” or T.C.U., which, in theory was “designed […]
Mitch PerryApril 7, 2016
5min305
Gay Talese is one of the great American reporters of our time. Now 84, Talese was considered part of the New Journalism that took the country by storm in the 1960s. I’m going to write about his new book in a moment, but I confess that I’m a little late to the party regarding the […]
Mitch PerryFebruary 15, 2016
3min315
Jeb Bush says it’s within Barack Obama‘s constitutional powers to nominate a candidate to succeed Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court, but says there’s no way that person should be approved by the U.S. Senate. “There should not be an appointment, based on the record of President Obama’s selection of judges,” Bush told NBC’s […]
Associated PressOctober 10, 2015
7min253
Donald Trump is a brash New Yorker who knows the path to the Republican presidential nomination runs through a swath of Southern states where residents pride themselves on graciousness and gentility. He leads many state polls in the region just as he does nationally. In the last few weeks he’s hired staff members in Alabama, […]
Mitch PerryFebruary 23, 2015
5min258
On Sunday morning, the Tampa Bay Times reported that Jeb Bush urged a group of New York conservatives in 2013 to support fracking at the same time he was involved with a private equity group that was raising $40 million for a company acquiring fracking wells. The Adam Smith/Alex Leary penned story also reported that fracking is a “family affair,” […]
Mitch PerryDecember 8, 2014
12min197
Opposition research generally involves a campaign gathering up as many facts as publicly (or privately) available on another candidate, preferably negative, in order to use against that candidate at an opportune time. Describing itself as “The Most Comprehensive Early Look Ever at a Presidential Field,” the D.C.-based Democratic Party group American Bridge 21st Century has […]