Snow Day!!

Due to the snow day, there will not be a debate this unit.

We will resume class on Monday with the Unit 5 exam. If you read this, please spread the word to any classmates you are in contact with.

Have a good weekend,
Inahara

Interest Groups

Interest Groups

Political Party History

Political Party History

Unit 5 Vocabulary

Unit 5 Vocab

Unit 5 study guide

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vS121hvC-GxtCOTNEL6aqHYLDRx0EF-drs-1LtRiQoazc0T3_HJIHwEUBDaLfgDbgrEIMFzLvT2wvjG/pub

Post-election reading

This is, quite simply, a list of the best things I read on each of the days after the election.  I don’t expect you to read all of it, but all of it is worth reading.  If you want to immerse yourself in post-election coverage, this is a good starting point.

Wednesday, Nov. 9:

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/an-american-tragedy-2

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/11/white_won.html

http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/how-donald-trump-became-president-elect

http://www.npr.org/2016/11/09/501378673/how-trump-won-according-to-the-exit-polls

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/opinion/election-night-2016/muslim-in-trumps-america

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/opinion/the-voters-abandoned-by-the-court.html

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/09/democrats-trump-and-the-ongoing-dangerous-refusal-to-learn-the-lesson-of-brexit/

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/09/donald-trump-will-be-president-this-is-what-we-do-next/

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/how-trump-made-hate-intersectional.html

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/forget-canada-stay-and-fight-for-american-democracy.html

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/09/president-trump-national-security-nuclear-arsenal

http://theslot.jezebel.com/all-along-it-was-you-1788758934

https://theringer.com/to-all-the-little-girls-who-are-watching-this-e142199d030c

Thursday, Nov. 10:

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/donald-trump-is-the-leader-america-was-promised-1788791098

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/opinion/america-elects-a-bigot.html?ref=opinion

https://theringer.com/why-donald-trump-terrifies-many-black-americans-c3cf008c78e6#.bq0yctm51

https://www.propublica.org/article/revenge-of-the-forgotten-class

https://medium.com/@gaywonk/how-to-be-hopeless-a6886b2d8716#.mupacwmby

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/10/people-are-oversimplifying-the-reasons-for-trumps-victory/

http://verysmartbrothas.com/i-will-never-underestimate-white-peoples-need-to-preserve-whiteness-again/

http://verysmartbrothas.com/once-again-black-women-did-the-work-white-women-refused-to/

http://fpif.org/cant-happen-just/

Friday, Nov. 11:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/welcome-to-the-second-redemption/507317/

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/trump-election-race-essay/507428/

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/the-american-media-is-completely-unprepared-to-cover-a-trump-presidency/507476/

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/11/things-are-about-to-get-much-worse-for-poor-americans/507143/

http://jezebel.com/please-stop-saying-poor-people-did-this-1788813761

http://jezebel.com/what-do-i-say-stories-from-the-classroom-after-electi-1788781296

http://www.wsj.com/articles/election-2016-is-propelled-by-the-american-economys-failed-promises-1467909580?mod=e2tw

https://newrepublic.com/article/138680/media-blew-election-now-theyre-blowing-transition-trump

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/11/11/the_electoral_college_is_an_instrument_of_white_supremacy_and_sexism.html

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/11/why_did_some_white_obama_voters_for_trump.html

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/a-letter-to-young-women-how-we-will-all-move-forward-together-now?utm_source=broadlytwitterus

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a50598/russian-talked-to-trump-campaign/

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/aldkgsjghj-dsgljalakdjg-gfjosdgjcfakjslakd-1788816844

Saturday, Nov. 12:

http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/11/hillary-clinton-didnt-shatter-the-glass-ceiling.html?mid=twitter_cut

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/magazine/a-time-for-refusal.html

http://wonkette.com/608499/an-open-letter-to-supposedly-pro-choice-pro-same-sex-marriage-non-racist-trump-supporters

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/mourning-trump-and-the-america-we-could-have-been?mbid=social_facebook

https://www.thenation.com/article/the-gops-attack-on-voting-rights-was-the-most-under-covered-story-of-2016/

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/11/on_the_trail_for_the_final_week_of_the_trump_campaign.html

http://blavity.com/ta-nehisi-coates-ditched-script-kept-real-hubspots-marketing-conference

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5824e18ee4b0ddd4fe797972

http://www.mtv.com/news/2951443/empathy-for-the-devil/?utm=share_twitter

http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2016/11/12/want-democratic-institutions-to-hold-stop-pretending-theres-a-campaign-trump-and-prepare-to-fight-an-autocrat/

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/trumpistan-week-one-the-unthinkable-slowly-becomes-normal.html

https://www.buzzfeed.com/annehelenpetersen/america-hates-women?utm_term=.ioG8DMvYx#.btwQRApeD

https://www.buzzfeed.com/bimadewunmi/what-is-america-so-afraid-of?utm_term=.spmlabe3x#.we2mVady4

https://newrepublic.com/article/138631/terrible-skewed-anachronistic-electoral-college-gave-us-trump

http://www.salon.com/2016/11/12/white-flight-from-reality-inside-the-racist-panic-that-fueled-donald-trumps-victory/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/president-trumps-america-already-looks-different.html

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/kakistocracy

Sunday, Nov. 13:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/11/stay-angry-thats-the-only-way-to-uphold-principles-in-trumps-america/

http://www.businessinsider.com/im-a-muslim-immigrant-and-im-choosing-to-stay-in-trumps-america-2016-11

http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2016/11/09/i_am_a_gay_jew_in_trump_s_america_and_i_am_terrified.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/11/glenn-greenwald-trump-will-have-vast-powers-he-can-thank-democrats-for-them/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-d%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/11/13578618/why-did-trump-win

http://m.indyweek.com/news/archives/2016/11/11/republicans-rumored-to-be-considering-packing-the-nc-supreme-court-in-december-special-session

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/12/the-advertising-decisions-that-helped-doom-hillary-clinton/

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/losing-the-popular-vote-wont-rein-in-president-trump

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-alt-right-hails-its-victorious-god-emperor

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/opinion/what-whiteness-means-in-the-trump-era.html?smid=tw-share&referer=https://t.co/J7dFnuKqCx

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/9/13555784/donald-trump-presidential-election-victory-history

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot

Monday, Nov. 14:

http://www.mtv.com/news/2954238/aint-that-america/?utm=share_twitter

https://newrepublic.com/article/138712/donald-trump-already-acting-like-authoritarian

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/14/13618850/reince-priebus-chief-of-staff

http://prospect.org/article/unpersuadables

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/how-the-loyal-opposition-will-work-in-trumps-america.html?mid=twitter_nymag

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/11/rural_americans_just_chose_a_president_who_won_t_help_them.html

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-normalization-means

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a50654/why-steve-bannon-is-dangerous/

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/11/donald_trump_s_pick_of_stephen_bannon_means_white_nationalism_is_coming.html

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/schumer-and-pelosi-have-a-plan-to-make-trump-popular.html

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/donald-trump-steve-bannon-breitbart-pravda-214451

http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/11/14/13582562/trump-gop-climate-environmental-policy

https://bullshit.ist/on-woke-white-people-advertising-their-shock-that-racism-just-won-a-presidency-68286682047d#.26pq4lisz

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a50672/state-legislatures-republicans/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/our-first-amendment-test-is-here-we-cant-afford-to-flunk-it/2016/11/13/9e8722ce-a83f-11e6-8fc0-7be8f848c492_story.html?postshare=1301479075260043&tid=ss_tw

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/14/on-election-day-the-bad-guy-won-heres-how-we-broke-it-to-our-kids/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/14/googles-top-news-link-for-final-election-results-goes-to-a-fake-news-site-with-false-numbers/

http://valadilenne.tumblr.com/post/153048664118/ive-been-thinking-a-lot-about-the-meeting-between

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/14/the-two-hundred-year-era-of-left-and-right-is-over/

http://www.newsweek.com/myths-cost-democrats-presidential-election-521044

Tuesday, Nov. 15:

https://newrepublic.com/article/138757/obama-warning-america-trumps-presidency-listening

http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a40804/black-women-2016-election/

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/11/there_is_no_such_thing_as_a_good_trump_voter.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_top

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2016/11/what_democrats_should_do_about_the_supreme_court.html

http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article114982043.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/king-means-bigot-steve-bannon-white-house-article-1.2873344

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/reporters-notebook-on-the-trail-with-donald-trump/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2016/11/15/give-steve-bannon-a-chance-its-not-like-hes-literally-joseph-goebbels/?utm_term=.69efe9bdfa6d

https://news.vice.com/story/donald-trumps-presidential-transition-is-barely-moving-due-to-unsigned-paperwork?cl=fp

https://newrepublic.com/article/138754/blame-trumps-victory-college-educated-whites-not-working-class

http://www.gq.com/story/our-new-terrain

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a50712/maine-voters-trump/?src=socialflowTW

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/14/trump-appointments-send-an-ominous-signal-steve-bannon/

Unit 4: Voting and Election Process

Voting and Election Process

Unit 4 History

Unit 4 History

Unit 4 Vocab

Unit 4 Vocab

Unit 4 study guide (and more optional readings)

Study guide
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1911boZH9bCZe3C1m8F_v13_tizMGzAZUsg8pJAEBZzU/pub


Optional readings:
"How much do 'October Surprises' move the polls?" - http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-much-do-october-surprises-move-the-polls/

"There's a new 'silent majority,' and it's voting for Hillary Clinton" - http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/10/19/13288594/new-silent-majority

"The mythology of Trump's 'working class' support" - http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-mythology-of-trumps-working-class-support/

"How Hillary Clinton met Satan" - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/opinion/sunday/how-hillary-clinton-met-satan.html

"How the Hillary Clinton outrage cycle took over the media" - http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/how-the-hillary-clinton-outrage-cycle-took-over-the-media-w447574

In Class: Politics and Media

Notes from 10/26
Media and Politics

In Class: Political Parties Notes

Political Parties

In Class: Unit 3 Vocab

Vocab PPT from 10/17
Unit 3 Vocab

Unit 3 - current events and supplemental readings

This one is required:

"How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind" - http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about/




The rest of these are not required readings.  They're just really interesting and really good, and a lot of them are about stuff that's happening right now.  If you want to know more about any of the following topics, take a look.  I will continue adding to the bottom of this post as the unit goes on.


ADDED Oct. 14

Election media coverage
CNN's Trump problem - https://twitter.com/gaywonk/status/786926956075855872


Prosecution of media figures
Amy Goodman in South Dakota - http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/taibbi-on-amy-goodman-arrest-for-covering-dakota-pipeline-story-w444754 and https://freedom.press/blog/2016/10/north-dakota-needs-immediately-drop-its-outrageous-charges-against-journalist-amy

James Risen - http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/03/james-risen-anonymous-source-government-battle


Trump and dog whistle politics
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/08/trump_s_outreach_to_black_voters_is_a_dog_whistle_for_racists.html

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/10/11/1580944/-Donald-Trump-calls-on-his-goons-to-stop-other-communities-from-stealing-the-election

http://forward.com/news/351984/at-florida-rally-trump-evokes-specter-of-international-banks-and-jews-cheer/

https://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/trump-just-gave-an-anti-semitic-speech-dripping-with-hatred-and-the-internet-is-horrified/

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/trumps-assassination-dog-whistle-was-scarier-than-you-think-w433615

http://www.salon.com/2016/09/23/nothing-left-but-the-dog-whistle-trump-real-america-and-the-death-of-the-conservative-movement/

http://forward.com/opinion/348179/donald-trumps-7-meanest-dog-whistles-ranked-from-worst-to-not-quite-so-bad/


Political culture in America

"Are women people?" - http://www.salon.com/2016/10/13/are-women-people/

"Dangerous idiots: how the liberal media elite failed working class Americans" - https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/13/liberal-media-bias-working-class-americans

"Finally.  Someone who thinks like me" - https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/finally-someone-who-thinks-like-me/2016/10/01/c9b6f334-7f68-11e6-9070-5c4905bf40dc_story.html

This whole series (Anxious In America) by the New York Times is fantastic:

"Torn Over Donald Trump and Cut Off by Culture Wars, Evangelicals Despair" - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/30/us/donald-trump-christians-gay-marriage.html

"Feeling Let Down and Left Behind, With Little Hope for Better" - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/us/feeling-let-down-and-left-behind-with-little-hope-for-better.html

"Underwater in the Las Vegas Desert, Years After the Housing Crash" - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/us/las-vegas-2008-housing-crash.html

"Debt.  Terror.  Politics.  To Seattle Millenials, the Future Looks Scary" - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/us/seattle-millennials-economy-student-debt-politics.html

"Trump a Working Class Hero?  A Blue-Collar Town Debates His Credentials" - http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/27/us/trump-a-working-class-hero-a-blue-collar-town-debates-his-credentials.html

Unit 3 study guide

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10HV_aFTv0oZAGckm-MgXgrorgewS2ZFDIXZLgCOJ3Io/pub

In Class: Federalism History

Historical Federalism

In Class: Unit 2 Vocab and Federal Rulings

Here are the two PPTs we have gone over in class regarding unit 2:

Unit 2 Vocab

Federal Increases

Unit 2 study guide

The Unit 2 study guide can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W8lpINc8yGrzMyhzSrPS7A7kI1iFz-iI4tNXyCZ3GDI/pub