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Presidential Election Archive

Archives for October 2016

Politics
Mike Pence as Donald Trump’s vice president is an extra awful choice for LGBTQ rightsMike Pence as Donald Trump’s vice president is an extra awful choice for LGBTQ rights
Politics

Pence has a long history of opposing LGBTQ rights — including in the most important political controversy of his career.

By German Lopez
New York’s attorney general just ordered the Trump Foundation to stop raising money
Politics

Yes, Republican nominee Donald Trump’s personal charitable foundation, which has reportedly operated illegally and for personal gain.

By Tara Golshan
You don’t need “genius” to pull off Trump’s tax avoidance — you just need to be rich
Donald Trump

Normal people who lost money in real estate during the crisis don’t get a tax break.

By Matthew Yglesias
CNN’s Jake Tapper: should Trump really “be casting aspersions on the marriages of anyone else?”
Politics

Tapper asked if Trump’s latest attack on Clinton is “normal, stable behavior for a presidential nominee.”

By German Lopez
Donald Trump
Was Donald Trump’s The Apprentice the definition of a hostile work environment?Was Donald Trump’s The Apprentice the definition of a hostile work environment?
Donald Trump

He was the gross boss every woman wants to avoid.

By Libby Nelson
Drudge Report is spreading a conspiracy about Bill Clinton it debunked in 1999
Politics

It’s 35 days before the presidential election and Drudge Report’s top headline baselessly alleges Bill Clinton has a secret son.

By Tara Golshan
Movies
Best of Enemies is about Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr., but it might as well be about the 2016 electionBest of Enemies is about Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr., but it might as well be about the 2016 election
Movies

The pair’s debating style has left the realm of political commentary and taken up residence in actual politics.

By Alissa Wilkinson
The mind-blowing scale of Trump’s billion-dollar loss, in one tweet
Politics

It was almost 2 percent of all such losses in America that year.

By Matthew Yglesias
What Hillary Clinton’s leaked audio teaches us about Hillary Clinton
Politics

A theory of why Hillary Clinton struggles with young voters.

By Ezra Klein
“Is this the way we want to live?” Andrew Sullivan on our distraction sickness — and Trump
Technology

“This is a mass addiction.”

By Sean Illing
Young voters seem to mistakenly think Donald Trump would be tough on Wall Street
Politics

His actual policy is tax cuts and deregulation.

By Matthew Yglesias
Politics
Donald Trump’s tax plan makes impossible promises. This cartoon explains.Donald Trump’s tax plan makes impossible promises. This cartoon explains.
Politics

His plan is still wildly irresponsible.

By Alvin Chang
Whatever is actually in Trump’s tax returns is worse than what the New York Times says
Politics

Trump is making clear that whatever is really in his tax returns would be devastating to his campaign.

By Ezra Klein