Tag / white house
-
![]()
Venezuela: It’s Complicated
When Juan Guaidó, the previously unknown leader of Venezuela’s legislature, invoked a constitutional clause to declare himself president, he set off an international firestorm. Almost immediately, American Vice President Mike Pence called sitting president Nicolás Maduro “a dictator with no legitimate claim to power” and affirmed American support for Guaidó. The last months have seen…
-
![]()
The Skill Of Normalizing Controversy
January 21st, 2017: To start the Trump Administration the day after President Trump’s inauguration, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer claims Trump’s inauguration held the largest crowd in history despite images showing a clearly more dominant crowd for president Obama. Nobody cared, though; after all, a lie about a crowd size affected nobody.[su_pullquote]Nobody cared about…
-
![]()
Judgments About Food as a Proxy For Class
“Like little ships set out to sea, I push my spoon away from me.” I grew up eating dinner with my family every night. Once my parents had both gotten home from work and my sister and I had gotten home from school, the four of us would sit down at our dining room table.…
-
Rahm Emanuel: Going, going, gone.
I’m glad to see Rahm Emanuel is leaving the White House with plans to announce his candidacy for mayor of Chicago. Rhambo, as he has not-so-affectionately come to be known, is famous for his hot temper and in-your-face style of getting things done. He once screamed at Tony Blair and Bill Clinton, and can be…
