Former presidents have one big advantage over the rest of us. When they speak, people assume they’ve done the homework. So when Barack Obama broke his long, comfortable silence this month to defend Rep. Ilhan Omar, it landed. He called the Trump administration’s investigation into her “so appalling.” He said the full weight of the
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Politics has always had its tricks. The misleading mailer, the dawn robocall, the rumor started at the diner counter. But it takes a particular kind of nerve to go looking for a
In politics, the tell is often what someone leaves out. A week before the midterms, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz sat down for an interview that aired on C-SPAN. He was asked to
Eight days before an election, everything a politician does sends a message: where she shows up, who she sits next to, and what she lets slide. On Monday night in Minneapolis, Rep.
Ask the Victims Don’t take the president’s word for it. Don’t take the cops’ word, either. Take the word of the people who’d know best: the ones who would have been the
