As U.S. Elections Near, Charles Pierce Notes: "Every twist and turn in every campaign is wrought by the money power"

As Perry Bacon Jr. notes, the reason U.S. elections are so close is that the nation is so polarized, with ideological camps that are more or less equally balanced, at least when it comes to those who actually vote.

A surprising number of Americans are moved by rhetoric about a man named Donald Trump as the second coming of Christ, the savior of a mythic America imagined as "Christian" (and definitely white-dominated). This instrumental adaptation of "religion" to political life ...