The reaction to this year’s presidential election allows us to see the difference between Republicans and Democrats, men and women.
In the aftermath of President Obama’s two wins, men headed to the gun stores to stock up on weapons and ammunition.
After President-elect Trump’s victory, women have headed to their gynecologists, to stock up on birth control.
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We can pretty well guess what NPR ombudsman Elizabeth Jensen’s next column is going to be about. It’s going to be about whether NPR should have given seven minutes of national radio time on Thursday evening to Richard Spencer, a white nationalist who coined the term ‘alt-right’. Read more →
It’s unclear if Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., intended for her snapshot of the meeting of the House Republican Caucus, of which she’s chair, to go viral today, but it has. Read more →
Northfield council members, except one, affirmed the college town’s “commitment to be a safe, inclusive and welcoming community for all.” Read more →
Melvin Laird, the secretary of defense under Richard Nixon, died today.
A lot of old-timers probably weren’t even aware the Carlton College alum was still alive, except that his name has come up a few times in the last week as an example of why a president’s cabinet choices are pretty important.
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In public radio, ‘politicians and pointyheads’ tend to dominate. So it can be jarring to hear from people who are neither. Thus the term public radio.
There were some flaws in how NPR covered the campaign, sure, but it would be unfortunate if people walk away from the notion that hearing from people living their lives is something requiring apology. Read more →
It was considered a criminal offense to try to pay taxes with a bad check in Minnesota. Until today. Read more →
Katherine Cramer, a professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, has been traveling to specific towns in rural Wisconsin for about 10 years and she says the results of last week’s election was about respect — or the lack of it — for rural areas more than anything else. Read more →
Frank Gaffney is no fan of Muslims. He’s one of the ringleaders of the effort to spread the rumor that Barack Obama was Muslim. Read more →
Words of encouragement are being scrawled in chalk on the Twin City’s sidewalks and driveways.
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Now that we’re done with evaluating the media’s fascination with polls and the horse race of presidential campaigns, which seem to prevent many substantive stories about candidates from rising above the noise, let’s talk about another important election day component that is obsessed with politics as sport: You. Read more →
Perhaps you’ve noticed in the last seven days that, despite not having a shred of specifics from the new president, reporters have had no trouble telling the story of what a Trump presidency means for everything and everybody.
They could have spent the last year doing those stories for all of the candidates who wanted to be president, but they couldn’t; they were too busy regurgitating the stump speeches and rehashing the horse race, which relies on polls that were completely inaccurate. Read more →
The online star of the postgame show for American’s Election Day has turned out to be a guy who’s going to be out of work in two months. Read more →
It’s not often you hear coaches of professional sports teams dissecting the political scene in America, but San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, probably the best basketball coach in America, isn’t an ordinary coach, and he’s never suffered fools gladly. Read more →
Seventy-four percent of eligible Minnesotans voted. But that’s down from the last election, which was down from the election before that.
Had we matched 2012’s turnout, another 78,000 people would’ve voted.
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Bob Collins