Politics

It's not just "angry blue collar white men," that are supporting Donald Trump. Having received a record number of votes in a Republican nomination campaign and winning in some of the richest and best-educated counties in the country adding to victories in his more traditional strongholds of white working-class neighborhoods, statistician Nate Silver found - after reviewing exit poll data in 23 states - that Trump voters' median household income was higher than the median in every state, sometimes by a wide margin; and that 44% of Trump voters have c

I want to endorse the bulk of this Ross Douthat blog post about how even people who hate the status quo need to recognize how Donald Trump could make things much worse:

I would invite the Trump-curious to think about the two signal crises of the Bush years, 9/11 and the financial crisis, and imagine each one with Donald Trump installed as president of the United States.

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump says that he is very happy to see Sadiq Khan elected as the first Muslim Mayor of London.  The Donald – who used to be judge on the TV reality show The Apprentice before running for president – is willing to make an exception to his ban on Muslims entering the United States in regards to the new Mayor If Sadiq Khan does a good job as mayor then it would be a “very very good thing,” says Trump. Sadiq Khan hopes to travel to the U.S. one day to meet with his American counterparts without having to face any prejudices over his faith.

Turkish border guards continue to shoot and kill Syrian refugees and asylum seekers trying to reach Turkey, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). Syrian refugees are being killed, injured and abused at the border. HRW condemns the use of excessive force and asks Turkish authorities to stop pushing back asylum seekers at the border and to investigate the abuses.

Kurdish sources have said that the Turkish army shelled a district in the city of Nusaybin, southern Turkey, using munitions which were likely to have contained phosphorus. The Turkish army used munitions containing phosphorus against the Kurdish-inhabited city of Nusaybin in the country’s south, one Kurdish source told Sputnik on Sunday: Nusaybin is located in the Mardin province, where two Turkish servicemen were killed during a raid against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), outlawed in the country, earlier in the day.