By Binyamin Appelbaum – The New York Times.

WASHINGTON — Americans last year reaped the largest economic gains in nearly a generation as poverty

By Timothy Egan

Are you smarter than an immigrant? Can you name, say, all three branches of government or a single Supreme Court justice? Most Americans, those born here, those about to make the most momentous decision in civic … Read more »

By Charles M. Blow – The New York Times.

Let’s get straight to it: Hillary Clinton’s comments Friday at a fund-raiser that half of Donald Trump’s supporters could be put in a “basket of deplorables” wasn’t a smart political play.… Read more »

By Paul Krugman – The New York Times.

The last month has been a disgraceful time for the news media, with headline after headline, news report after news report on supposed Clinton scandals that were obvious nothingburgers — as the … Read more »

By Paul Waldman – Washington Post.

This article contains a video – and is best viewed by clicking here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/09/05/trumps-history-of-corruption-is-mind-boggling-so-why-is-clinton-supposedly-the-corrupt-one/?utm_term=.374c4d1a3dab… Read more »

By Paul Krugman – The New York Times.

Americans of a certain age who follow politics and policy closely still have vivid memories of the 2000 election — bad memories, and not just because the man who lost the popular … Read more »

By Philip Bump – The Washington Post.

Donald Trump’s immigration position is, at its heart, fairly … Read more »

By Justin Gillis – The New York Times.

NORFOLK, Va. — Huge vertical rulers are sprouting beside low spots in the streets here, so people can judge if the tidal floods that increasingly inundate their roads are too deep to … Read more »

By Charles M. Blow – The New York Times.

So, after weeks of preaching his sinister sermon of black pathology to mostly white audiences as part of his utterly fake “black outreach” — which is in fact the effort of … Read more »

By Michael Wines – The New York Times.

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — When a federal appeals court overturned much of North Carolina’s sweeping 2013 election law last month, saying it had been deliberately intended to discourage African-Americans from voting, something else … Read more »