Tag: US news
Will ‘Trumpism’ replace conservatism?
Trump has already inspired a handful of Republicans facing primaries, and his campaign may have a generational impact on the party and its ideology What has Donald Trump done to the Republican party? The New York real estate developer has only been his party’s presumptive nominee for two weeks but his role as the GOP […]
Jessa Crispin: ‘We’re not allowed to say the Paris Review is boring’
The editor of Bookslut, which shut down last week, talks to the Guardian about the current state of American literature and its attendant frustrations A couple of weeks ago, Jessa Crispin shut her longstanding book review site, Bookslut, down. Fourteen years after shed founded it, she told me at a Brooklyn coffee shop last week, […]
Will Obama’s tax loophole crackdown strike fear into evaders’ hearts? | Chris Lehmann
Following the Panama Papers leak, Obama has promised to close tax loopholes. One can only hope he follows through Just as the Republican party has all-but officially named economic nationalist Donald Trump to head its 2016 presidential ticket, Barack Obama has helpfully sketched out a handy quasi-populist crusade for Democrats to adopt in this intemperate […]