American corporate news culture is so boringly predictable that it never ceases to amaze me. To run the same repetitive schtick day in, day out, all year, is a testament to the industry's limitless capacity for inanity. The financial pay off is obviously worth it though, and ...read more

For a while now I've been wondering whether there was a counterintuitive method to Donald Trump's madness, whether all his racist, xenophobic, tasteless, mendacious and generally insane pronouncements and proposals were nothing more than an attempt to derail his own campaign. ...read more