Philadelphia story: an early lesson in the new politics

Political scandals can now be charted on a graph from detonation to amplification to stoking to fallout. There was one in 2008 that took a different turn.

At a time when campaigns, and politics in general, have been overtaken by hypertactical gaming to direct narratives and alter outcomes, there’s a lesson to be gleaned by candidates on both sides of the border from then-candidate Barack Obama’s March 18, 2008, A More Perfect Union speech in response to a political scandal, writes Lisa Van Dusen. Flickr photograph by Jared Polin

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

August 21, 2019

In the midst of America’s most recent, gratuitously divisive, and antediluvian racist drama unleashed by its own president, I turned, as has become a habit, to some counter-content to self-medicate. In the case of a patently racist president of the United States denying he’s a racist, the best ...

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