The Weekly Sift » 2016 election

The two questions I had at the beginning remain unanswered. Around the time Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, and Robert Mueller was being appointed special counsel, I formulated the two simp...

https://weeklysift.com/2023/05/22/summing-up-at-the-end-of-the-trump-russia-investigations/

The relationship between the Clinton campaign and the DNC was more incestuous than we thought. Does it follow that the primaries were rigged and the nomination was stolen? Thursday, former Democr...

https://weeklysift.com/2017/11/06/rigged/

In the 2015 Yearly Sift, I wrote: I started 2015 with clear expectations about how I’d cover the campaign. But by Fall, I had to back up and try to answer a more fundamental question than the o...

https://weeklysift.com/2016/12/26/the-year-of-this-cant-be-happening/

On the morning of Election Day, my wife and I cast our ballots in New Hampshire and then started driving west, heading to Quincy, Illinois, where I grew up. I

https://weeklysift.com/2016/11/14/how-did-my-home-town-become-trumpland/

In order to persuade Trump voters, I’d have to understand them first. Believe me, I’ve tried. For months I’ve been imagining the closing argument I would post the day before the election: ...

https://weeklysift.com/2016/11/07/i-dont-know-why-were-having-this-conversation/

“It’s only been a week,” Liz Plank tweeted. “But we’ve all aged a year.” Despite how ugly it’s been, though, the last ten days of the presidential campaign does have one redeeming f...

https://weeklysift.com/2016/10/17/a-teaching-moment-on-sexual-assault/

It seemed like everybody had to comment. These people just did it better than the rest. By now all the people who want to — and probably a lot who never wanted to — have seen the video of D...

https://weeklysift.com/2016/10/10/best-responses-to-the-trump-video/

Introduction: Why we need reporters to investigate Trump Typically, voters judge a candidate on three scales: character or public image. Do we like this person, identify with him or her, and trus...

https://weeklysift.com/2016/10/03/investigative-reporters-and-donald-trump-the-9-best-articles/

Long-term, is there anything progressives can do to cool them off or win them back? The most fascinating character of the 2016 election cycle isn’t Donald Trump, it’s the voter who has identi...

https://weeklysift.com/2016/09/05/trump-voters-where-theyre-coming-from-where-theyre-going/

Somehow, we have a pay-for-play scandal without either pay or play. Most of the articles about the possible conflicts-of-interest involving Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation dive right ...

https://weeklysift.com/2016/08/29/about-the-foundation/