Month: August 2016
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New NYT: The problem with Trump’s “rigged” claim
From my new Upshot column: As public support turns against him, Donald Trump is suggesting without evidence that the election could be “rigged” by Democrats using vote fraud. This claim threatens the norms of American elections and could provoke a damaging reaction among his supporters. Ultimately, democracies depend on losers’ acceptance of the legitimacy of
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New Monkey Cage: The “missing 28 pages” won’t help
From a new Monkey Cage post co-authored with my former students Sasha Dudding and Heather Szilagyi: Last month, the House Intelligence Committee released a previously classified section of the 2002 congressional inquiry into the September 11 attacks known as the missing “28 pages.” The U.S. government allegedly kept this document confidential to protect its relationship