Donald H. Harrison

WASHINGTON — Even before they elect a new president, voters are signaling a continued stalemate post-election on major issues such as health care, immigration and the Supreme Court. Hillary Clinton’s supporters are eager for compromise on such issues. Donald Trump’s backers want the government to stand on principle even if it means continued paralysis, a […]

Previously: A 103-Year-Old Feminist Critiques the 2016 Presidential Candidates Ruth Littman has lived through 26 presidential elections. She’s been voting since 1932, when Franklin D. Roosevelt clobbered Herbert Hoover. She is as old as one Ted Cruz plus one Marco Rubio plus five North “Nori” Wests. Littman is 105. (Last week, she celebrated her birthday

Miami DJ Scott Melker took to his Facebook on Thursday to tell some stories about Donald Trump Jr. According to Melker, he attended the University of Pennsylvania with Trump Jr. and was witness to some his poor behavior and alleged resentment of his father. Melker wrote that he hopes to shed “a bit of light

As a middle-class, white Ashkenazi Jew living in California in 2016, I’ve been privileged to avoid the systemic, cultural and interpersonal racism faced by many Muslims, immigrants and people of color across the U.S. today. However, my uncle was not as fortunate. He was a Holocaust survivor who saw his entire family killed in front

Some people get angry when I and others compare Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to George Wallace. What they’re forgetting, or perhaps never knew if they’re too young, is that Wallace didn’t run for president in 1964, 1968, 1972, and 1976 as a segregationist, though he was one; he ran as a populist defender of