It's possible that Trump will have success by staging jobs theatre, rather than creating jobs. It's the inverse of what Obama did: saving an enormous amount of jobs without having the televised theatre to go along with it.

Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it.

I never thought Hillary Clinton was a very good politician.

Everything on Twitter is true.

Trump's not the future; his ideas and his coalition are a dead end.

I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life.

In some ways, Trump is just going to continue the trend: by continuing the norm-smashing behaviour that Republicans used in opposition.