Humility for journalists means knowing when we don’t know. Empathy requires seeing the world through many lenses. Those basic journalistic values got lost in 2016.
My gnawing question about Trump voters, especially the dispossessed white working-class ones: Did they vote for Trump because he was Trump, or despite it?
After the spectacle of 2016, it is well to remember that popular agitation, exaggerated expectations, and deep divisions have long been part of the nation’s history.
That speech itself took a beating in the 2016 election is troubling. But Clinton and Trump were not singularly to blame: Both candidates embodied longer-term trends.
That the senior ranks of the incoming Trump administration have taken on a military hue is both logical and deeply troubling. It should give Americans pause.
Vibrant suspicion of government is the bedrock of democracy and our robust civil society. But it also means we’re unsure of what to do with our our own government.
Willing the good to everyone doesn't mean we ought to contrive a cheap reconciliation that ignores the danger presented by Donald Trump to our society and the world.
What might be more important about Trump's election is that the phenomenon seems part of a broader “populist” movement sweeping through most advanced countries.
Donald Trump's cavalier and arrogant response to the CIA's finding that Russia actively intervened in our election only deepens our fears about his win.
It is not unreasonable to fear that Trump will govern as he campaigned—as an authoritarian, a threat
to the rule of law, an agent of disorder on the world stage.
Democrats may see themselves as heirs to the progressive tradition dating to FDR. But that does not describe the party that made Hillary Clinton its nominee.
It's not true that the political coalition that elected Barack Obama died on November 8. That alliance maintained its national advantage, as the popular vote shows.
