Don Waisanen (Baruch): Comedian-in-Chief: Presidential Jokes as Enthymematic Crisis Rhetoric. The joke was that Obama wasn’t joking. Nikita Dhawan on rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans: The Enlightenment ideals of cosmopolitanism and hospitality are nowhere to be found in today’s European border policy — the escalating migrant crisis makes this clearer than ever. Aid groups knew a Nepal earthquake would be a disaster — but they couldn’t raise enough money to help. The virtual candidate: Elizabeth Warren isn’t running, but she’s Hillary Clinton’s biggest Democratic threat. Is Hillary Clinton a real populist? It doesn’t matter — what matters is whether this indeed a winning platform, because that would change American politics forever. Republicans painting Hillary Clinton as a tool of the superrich forget one little thing. Bruce Jenner is a transgender Republican — here’s why that matters. Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig on why feminists aren’t obligated to support Right-wing women: Conservatives just don’t get it. Good luck going after the Pope, climate deniers. As you may expect in the wake of the Baltimore riots, on the right it's all ooga-booga all the time. Nobody said that: In the age of unacknowledged error, soul-searching and apologies about faulty predictions are conspicuously missing. Chloe Sevigny, Patti Smith, and Kim Gordon get it: Forget staying beautiful — women should aspire to eternal coolness. Will you be able to read this article in 1,000 years? James MacDonald on a cosmic mystery from a microwave burrito.
