pareene
Alex Pareene
pareene
Politics editor, Splinter

Asking Hillary Clinton “how can you unite a country” if you write off “millions” of Americans is a very silly question. The country won’t be united by anyone, and the proof of that is that at least 40 percent of voters will be supporting Trump. Why is it her responsibility to get white nationalists on her side? Read more

Hillary saying “bullying is up” among children because of Trump seems dubious, as awful as Trump is. Read more

Martha Raddatz was trying to have a moment there challenging Trump on his actual “strategy” in Syria but he just sort of charged right through it. Read more

Why are we still sticking with the bizarre and totally arbitrary “no one making under $250,000 gets higher taxes” rule still it’s one of the dumbest self-limiting promises in modern Democratic politics. Read more

Why did Donald Trump preemptively start talking about his taxes before it came up? Read more

“Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, it is not affordable.” Thanks, voter. Read more

Hillary Clinton being asked about her EMAILS now and if she wasn’t bad at this she would take this opportunity to attack excessive classification of mundane bullshit. Read more

Boy, when you hear Trump say “Michelle Obama, No. 2,” you really gotta prepare yourself for something wild. Read more

“Don’t tell me about words.” — Donald Trump Read more

It is deeply stupid to give these town hall questions to “undecided voters,” and it is totally disconnected from how our elections actually work in an era of really, really settled ideological divisions between the parties. The electorate is not made up of informed independents gravely weighing the pros and cons of Read more

Why didn’t NBC report on that notorious Trump video until the Washington Post forced their hand? Here’s my (admittedly pretty obvious) theory. Read more

OK so how do you not just say “fuck you” (but you know, nicely) to the guy who answered the question “when did your faith conflict with your job” by saying “you and Hillary want to kill babies” Read more

“The Trump organization is an Octopus-like organization with tentacles all over the world.” Read more

Yeah Marchman it seems like Kaine was picked mostly because he didn’t fail the 2008 vetting and because Virginia, not for any actual positive reason. Read more