Emma Roller why hillary lost wisconsin

Paul Soglin is the mayor of Madison, Wisconsin’s capital city, in cerulean Dane County. He supported Senator Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary, and said he talked at least once a week with a field organizer from the Sanders campaign during the primary. But once Mrs. Clinton locked up the nomination, it was radio silence from the Clinton campaign.

The New York Times, Nov. 22, on Wisconsin’s changing politics.

ANDREW BROWNE engaging with china

As North Korea accelerates its ballistic missile and nuclear testing, hastening the day it can threaten to turn Seattle into ashes, US options range from terrible to nightmarish. The path to a solution—if one exists at all—leads through Beijing, Pyongyang’s main sponsor. Is there a Grand Bargain to be made?

The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 22, on potential partnerships between the United States and China.

Garrison Keillor divided america

The Trump faction will boycott chamber music concerts, wine tastings, lectures on Byzantine art, and poetry readings, and Hillarians will boycott NFL games, casinos, gun shows, and demolition derbies.

The Washington Post, Nov. 22, on the aftermath of the election.

Robert Reich the democrats’ failure

So what we now have is a Democratic Party that has been repudiated at the polls, headed by a Democratic National Committee that has become irrelevant at best, run part-time by a series of insider politicians. It has no deep or broad-based grass-roots, no capacity for mobilizing vast numbers of people to take any action other than donate money, no visibility between elections, no ongoing activism.

The Guardian, Nov. 18, on the need for reform within the Democratic Party.