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Power 2016 is a hybrid art-journalism project that launched with a team travelling to the Republican and Democratic parties’ national political conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia to document and provide commentary. …
HELLO. I’m sorry, where were we? Howls of coyotes on the hill, signaling something dire. They usually howl like that after they’ve killed something, but that night they did it to drown out the emergency sirens in the valley. And it worked, for a bit. But then the sirens came back even louder, more of … Continue reading
TONIGHT at dusk, we walked down the hill to the firehouse to vote. Our neighbors who live closest to the firehouse put huge Trump signs in their windows. Another neighbor stopped to talk. “It’s almost over!” she exalted. As we walked back up the hill, the coyotes in the back field began to ululate in … Continue reading
Election Day – 7:40 a.m. Johnson County Precinct 18. Longfellow Elementary School. Iowa City. Iowa. November 8, 2016 — Jon Winet Continue reading
IN a brief but substantive interview with Bill Maher broadcast on Real Time Friday night, President Obama reflected on the principal problem in our public life and discourse that has made it possible for Donald Trump to get this close to the American Presidency. “People have difficulty,” he said, “just sorting out what’s true and … Continue reading
AS this election day, the most frightening hyperobject any of us has encountered in decades, looms, it is time to ask How in the world did we get to this point? Has our communications environment become so appallingly polluted that we must take emergency measures to stop what we’re doing and move in a different … Continue reading
DONALD J. Trump is very good at one thing, and that is drawing attention to himself. He has spent his entire life honing this skill, and he must now be acknowledged as a master of it, in the Century of the Self, when being famous for being famous is at its peak. Trump knows that … Continue reading
WITH the 3rd and final debate 3+ days away, and with the election 22 days, 8 hours and 386 minutes away – this, according to CNN whose Stasi-precise countdown acts as a not-so- subtle form of torture for some in my circle – we double back to a September 16, 2016 One Question interview with a Johnson … Continue reading