Rebecca Traister

The current election campaign pits the forces of backlash (“the old and angry”) against the forces of frontlash (“the new and different”), and November’s vote will be “a referendum on the existence and civic participation of Americans who are not white men,” contended Traister in a Wednesday piece for New York magazine. Traister posited that “Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton…represent an altered…

From her years at Yale Law School until early in her Senate career, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s liberal credentials rarely were questioned. Since then, many on the left have come to doubt that Hillary is one of them, for reasons that include her support for the Iraq war and her alleged coziness with Wall Street. Rebecca Traister believes that it’s been twenty-five, not fifteen, years since Clinton…

While on a much-needed vacation, things for Keith Olbermann have gone from bad to worse.News is coming out almost daily concerning members of his production staff jumping ship to work for Lawrence O'Donnell's new program.On top of that, the Daily Caller has published e-mail messages of liberal JournoList members expressing their disgust for the "Countdown" host.As lefties hating on Olbermann is…

On Tuesday night's All Things Considered newscast, Michele Norris sadly relayed news of the Gore separation:  "The Gores had a storybook romance: college sweethearts, four beautiful children. Their playful affection energized the campaign trail. The concession was you don't make that kind of stuff up. The Gores' union became a model of stability in a hard-charging town where partnerships, even…