Recommended Reading

Matt Taibbi on the Trump campaign. Here's my favorite line in it…

Apart perhaps from his most hardcore fans (and the occasional Wall Street Journal columnist), nobody seriously believes Trump has been trying to reach out to African-American voters. If he had, he might have spoken to some actual black people, and taken a position on an issue black audiences care about.

And speaking of the Republican nominee's ability to even speak to black voters, let alone win them over, read Jonathan Chait on the late Phyllis Schlafly. I cannot imagine the kind of person who would go to their graves proud that they did all they could to block equal rights for women and minorities.