Is Anyone Buying Trump’s Impression of a Small-Government Conservative? In need of traditional Republican support, he mostly stuck to traditional Republican nostrums.
Making It Up as He Goes AlongDonald Trump’s genius for improvisation and why it failed him at the first debate.
What Donald Trump Means When He Talks About Stop-and-FriskIn Trump’s America, there are two sets of laws: one for white people and one for everyone else.
Trump vs. Clinton: Who’s Winning Today’s Forecasts of Who Will Win the Election?Find out with the Slate ~100 Percent Accurate Electoral Forecast Averagifier.
The Clintons Didn’t Screw Up Haiti Alone. You Helped.Trump has turned Haiti into the new symbol of Bill and Hillary’s crookedness. If only things were that simple.
Remember When George H.W. Bush Puked on the Japanese Prime Minister?Clinton wobbled, and the media freaked. Bush ralphed, and the media cooed.
Trump Proposes Home-School Vouchers for Poor Kids. It’s a Dumb Idea That No One Wants.It’s also not about poor kids.
Trump’s Campaign Can’t Answer Whether He’s Paid Federal Income Taxes, EitherThe scene in the spin room.
The 66 Things I Am Worried Will Go Wrong for Hillary Clinton in the DebatesI am Pokémon Go-ing to have a nervous breakdown.
How to Play the National Media, in Eight Simple StepsDonald Trump’s birther event was a living, breathing act of media criticism.
Gary Johnson Is Not Worth Any Liberal’s Protest VoteHe’s a free-market ideologue who would work to undermine large pieces of the left’s program.
The Violent, Racist Meaning of “Redemption”In foretelling bloody insurrection in the event of a Clinton victory, Kentucky’s governor invoked America’s history of racial reaction.
Trump’s SecretUnlike Clinton, he isn’t transparent about anything, but he has dictated how the press judges him.
Bob Timberg’s ScarsYears after his face was blown off by a Viet Cong grenade, the writer and Marine held up a mirror to himself and his country.