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Whereas Trump likes to revel in his excesses, Hillary Clinton labors to disguise her shortcomings. In this endeavor she is unsuccessful, except to core Democratic Party supporters. The forced smile, the ear-splitting laughter, and the faux Southern accent that emerges below the Mason-Dixon line — to say nothing of the constant alterations in her tall-tale alibis for behavior that would for anybody else trigger grave legal repercussions -- all advertise a proclivity to deceive. In the public eye for as long as Trump, the former first lady, senator, and secretary of state has displayed a stunning capacity over her long career to lie brazenly, and act high-handedly and corruptly.
It would take a master journalist to capture in real time the complexities of Trump's character and Clinton's. In "The Year of Voting Dangerously," Maureen Dowd rises impressively to the challenge. As she hopes, her new book does "entertain and illuminate" while providing "a guide for desperate voters in a year when more Americans than ever are disturbed and flummoxed by their choices."
This book collects more than 75 pieces by the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist. Most of those dealing with Trump and Clinton were published during the last 12 months, but some go back to the early 1990s. In addition, Dowd features powerful guest columns by her brother Kevin Dowd, a Republican, explaining his hard decision to support Trump; by her sister Peggy Dowd—who has voted for both Democrats and Republicans—expressing the hope that Trump will get his act together and earn her vote; and a "Trump rant" by her friend, former AP White House correspondent Rita Beamish.
Dowd's exploration of the candidates' virtues and vices—as well as those of numerous stars of American politics in the 1990s and 2000s—exhibits her own strengths and weaknesses. In wickedly playful prose, and often drawing on perceptive interviewing, she cuts through partisan claptrap to expose the seamy, the thickheaded, and the grotesque in our politicians while also illuminating the amusing, and the occasionally admirable and uplifting.
Her columns, however, seldom get around to the hard tradeoffs of public policy, the intricacies of constitutional government, and the prudential judgments involved in reconciling conflicting principles. When she does turn to policy, government, and principle, she often allows her inner partisan free rein.
The Donald who emerges from Dowd's reporting and opining is recognizably the "megalomaniacal" mogul who has generated fear and loathing among Democrats and not a few conservative intellectuals and Republican stalwarts. He is also more multidimensional and intriguing.
Her Trump is a "muddle of charm, humor, zest, vulgarity, bigotry, opportunistic flexibility, brutal candor, breathtaking boorishness and outrageous opening bids on volatile issues." The muddle, Dowd recognizes, has made a contribution to our politics: "He made monkeys out of a lot of people who had it coming, and he gleefully exposed the hypocrisy, the fund-raising excesses, and professional political vultures." She observes that Trump "seems authentic to many Americans" because he reflects their disgust with the dysfunction built into the political status quo.
Dowd's Hillary is, if anything, even less appealing than the one on public display. Clinton is forever calculating how to "seem 'real.'" While a "talented and tireless public servant," the first female presidential nominee "has cleaved to a bunker mentality." Imperious, defensive, and Machiavellian, she wears "an off-putting robe of entitlement and presumption." As a Clinton aide mordantly explained to Dowd, "Hillary, though a Methodist, thinks of herself like an Episcopal bishop who deserves to live at the level of her wealthy parishioners, in return for devoting her life to God and good works."
Dowd traces the roots of the unholy choice between the two major party nominees in part to flaws in Barack Obama's character.
Contrary to the progressive dogma that racism-driven opposition accounts for the president's failure to bring the nation together, she explains how his shortcomings are responsible for a good part of the mess the country is in. Obama has left government "more dysfunctional" than he found it because he lacks a disposition to engage in the cajoling, cultivating, and compromising crucial to politics in a pluralistic two-party democracy. Notwithstanding his finely crafted rhetoric, he "doesn't know how to work the system" and, worse, he "doesn't want to learn, or to even hire some clever people who can tell him how to do it or do it for him."
Republicans, according to Dowd, are even more responsible for the country's ill-temper.
"For all the Republican establishment's self-righteous bleating," it got what it deserved in Trump because "for years, it has fanned, stoked and exploited the worst angels among the nativists, racists, Pharisees and angry white men, concurring in anti-immigration measures, restricting minority voting, whipping up anti-Planned Parenthood hysteria and enabling gun nuts."
Dowd herself fans, stokes, and exploits the prejudices of her New York Times readers by lacing her writings with calumnies such as the oft-refuted claim that our colleges are afflicted with "epidemics of rape" and the accusation that the Tea Party was "fixated on stopping an effort to get health care to those who couldn't afford it."
Dowd is particularly captive to crude party-line judgments concerning George W. Bush and his administration. She declares, contrary to her own newspaper's reporting, that Bush won in 2000 thanks to his brother, Gov. Jeb Bush, who enabled George to "purloin Florida." In her telling, moreover, Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003 was "nonsensical." She casually tosses off that the war—whose declared purpose was to enforce 17 United Nations Security Council resolutions requiring Saddam Hussein to account for, dismantle, and turn over his weapons of mass destruction—was "cooked-up" and fought for "silly, macho reasons."
Dowd's gussied up progressive platitudes about supposed conservative malfeasance exemplify her penchant to take the focus on character too far by reducing complex matters of politics and security to snarky armchair psychologizing. Even the most incisive analysis of our politicians' foibles and fine points cannot replace the painstaking gathering of facts about, and analysis of, public opinion, domestic policy, the actual operation of government institutions, and national security capabilities and threats.
Voters' exercise of sobriety, integrity, and fidelity to principle in choosing their candidates and holding officials responsible depends—in the trying year of 2016 more than ever—on journalists exercising those virtues in their reporting and opining.


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What ten years at Cinereach taught me
When I interviewed for a job at Cinereach in the summer of 2008 I was seeking refuge and stability after several years as an independent producer. I was burnt out from hustling to get independent films funded and made, and from hearing "no" or "not right now" on a daily basis. I wanted to stay close to the work I loved but I needed a new perspective.
To be honest, I was surprised when I got hired for my initial job, which entailed running a fellowship program for emerging filmmakers. While I had applied for support from organizations like Cinereach, I had no experience on the other side of that mysterious equation. Who was I to decide who the beneficiaries of this program should be, and how to help them thrive?
Within a few weeks, though, it started to make more sense. First, Cinereach had been founded, not too long before I came along, from a place of exceptional empathy for the filmmaking teams it aimed to empower. At this company, it was more important that I knew how it felt to want support for a film than how to provide it.
It also became apparent that my colleagues were pretty new to what they were doing, too. They weren't operating from an abundance of experience, they were learning on the job, and it was working pretty well for them so far. They weren't looking for someone to come in and tell them how things should be done. They were looking for someone to help them poke holes in the status quo. Having the backing and the privilege to do this was a rare thing in our field, and they intended to make the most of it.
Our idealism and lack of experience as traditional gatekeepers meant we had to make some mistakes, but overall, it strikes me now that always doing things we didn't know "couldn't" be done has been the key to Cinereach's success. We've been free to follow the pull towards projects others thought "risky," and to learn that those projects served our mission far more than the ones with easy comps. In my own case, it gave me the opportunity to try out different roles to see what I could learn and achieve—in recent years, "Head of Communications"—that I might never have tried elsewhere.
Cinereach has gained a lot more experience, exposure, and expertise over the past decade. We've quadrupled in size, and gotten our hands dirty with every phase and facet of the filmmaking and distribution lifecycle. We know a lot more than we did at first about what it's like to be a film company and foundation among other companies and foundations. This gives us more leverage when we go to bat for films we believe in, and more insight to create better support models. I'm proud to say, though, that we've never lost that early idea of staying close to those we exist to serve. And we've never stopped working at the edges of what we think we know.
By design, Cinereach is there for the people and stories that need a shield from the way things are supposed to be done, to clear the path for what they are burning and fighting to be. We recognize what a rare gift it is to have the time and resources to make (or even see) movies, and that the people and systems that dictate who does so hold tremendous responsibility to create equitable access.
(Cue "The Smallest Piece" from our first major production, Beasts of the Southern Wild, and some nostalgic sniffles as I wrap this up. Forgive me for being sentimental. Ten years is a long time!).
That striving, curious spirit has informed every Cinereach hire and infused our team culture in general. I will take it with me now, as I leave my long-held post, and my beloved teammates, moving on to new projects and to reconnect with the maker in me for a while.
For me, movies and stories have always been a source of meaning, connection, and hope for humanity in scary times. They've answered a longing to find community and, by extension, find myself—both when I've watched them and when I've joined chosen families of storytellers and supporters making and distributing them. I have been exceptionally lucky to experience both types of belonging working at Cinereach. We haven't had all the answers, by any stretch, but every day we went out on a limb believing that the most vital stories know when, how, and through whom, they needed to be told, often before the powerful gatekeepers of culture are ready to let them through.
Ten years here have challenged, refreshed, and renewed me for the next act of my story. I'll treasure my hard-won experience and knowledge, and carry the Cinereach torch by never letting how things are "supposed to be" limit what I believe is possible.


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By the time this week's column is printed, our Prime Minister would have returned from his visit to India. The PML-N media will label the trip a huge, ground breaking success, while the other side, will in all probability, term the whole exercise nonproductive. While both viewpoints are radical in nature, the fact of the matter is that the Indians have once again played their hand with characteristic dexterity.
The invitation for our PM to attend the swearing in ceremony was not from the Indian PM elect to his Pakistani counterpart as an equal, but was extended through the SAARC Forum with undertones of the forum's leader asking his (smaller) members to attend the event. It may be noted here that Pakistan was a founding member of SAARC and had a major role in creating the organization. Nonetheless, it was well (and in keeping with diplomatic norms), that our Head of the Executive did attend the proceedings.
The subsequent meeting between the two Heads of Governments in Hyderabad House and the five points raised by Mr. Nawaz Sharif's counterpart were enough to prove the hardline nature of the Indian Government. This stance and the new Indian PM's approach towards Indian Muslims (demonstrated so vividly during the Gujrat Massacre) coupled with his reputation of a low tolerance threshold, are some of the angles that will test the foresight and professional wisdom of the Nawaz Sharif Government in any future scenario.
As if external developments were not enough, the domestic political pot continued to be stirred by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the Mutahidda Qaumi Movement, Pakistan Awami Tehreek and some religious parties. It would usually be in such pressure cooker situations that the elder brother in Islamabad often turned to his more astute younger sibling in Lahore. Some political analysts are already attributing the meetings between the Army Chief and the Punjab Chief Minister as part of this process.
The swearing in ceremony in New Delhi should have been an eye opener for the Pakistani leadership. The event's ambience and austerity may well have been part of how our Eastern neighbor portrays itself image wise or it may even have been a genuine reflection of Indian pragmatism, but it was effective. It would be well if our PM returns home with the understanding that ceremonies such as these actually multiply impact through simplicity, austerity and frugality.
Rosy cheeks, florid complexions and prosperous girths mock me whenever I switch on the 'idiot box' in our home. These are the images that belong to the 'ruling family' of Pakistan and their cronies – leaders of a country beset with economic crises, poverty, hunger and want, failing utility services, terror and rampant crime. These are the people who sing praises of the 'Orange Line' in Lahore and the arrival of the Metro Bus in the Twin Cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. These individuals appear sublimely oblivious of reality; what people need is zero load shedding, uninterrupted gas in their homes, a check on spiraling prices and good law and order – not Orange Trains and Red Buses plying on Metropolitan routes.
And finally, something about the PTI 'show of force' in Faisalabad - it was a day after the mammoth event that I met a friend from this great city who told me how anti-PTI elements had tried to wean the public away from the 'jalsa'. If my friend's version is true, then there can be no doubt as to the 'imbecility' of those tasked to undermine Khan Sahib's 'tsunami' using the gimmick of free entry into the Lucky Irani Circus and a Concert featuring a pop idol, within the same city and at the same time as the public meeting.
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Imagine you're a child again. Now imagine you're a child in Gaza, with no place to hide from the shelling. It's always close — and you know the people you love and that care for you could be killed instantly.
Palestinian children in the hundreds are being killed and maimed. We've seen the photos. Like a lot of people, I don't watch TV reports out of the region because I'm a father and I can't abide the sound of a child howling in pain and terror. In a way, those terrible cries cut more deeply than the silent images of children being buried, lying grievously wounded on hospital gurneys or entombed in rubble.
I know that Israeli children have suffered also. The rockets being fired into Israel aren't harmless little firecrackers. They're aimed to terrorize and kill. I have no tolerance for any act that endangers the life of a child … none. But the awful, undeniable reality of this war is that it's the children of Gaza who are being shattered in body, mind and spirit — disproportionately.
I'm writing this in the quiet comfort of my home in Toronto. I've tried to picture what it would be like to be in Gaza with my wife, my two young daughters and my frail 90-year-old mother. The thought is paralyzing.
Mr. Harper, Mr. Mulcair and Mr. Trudeau all have children of their own. I like to think they've pictured the hell that is Gaza for themselves, if only for a moment. If they've done that — if they aren't blind to the grief of parents who have lost their children in so-called "targeted" strikes — it certainly hasn't been reflected in anything they have said or written about this war.
Far from it. To date, their responses have been, frankly, indecent.
Distilled to its essence, this is what Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his ministers have had to say about this war: Please proceed. More than other thing he has done while in office, Harper's callous reply to the human catastrophe in Gaza has revealed his ugly nature.
This attitude is reflected in columns authored by this government's many media couriers, which invariably begin the same way: No one can possibly celebrate the killing of children in Gaza, but …
And what can we conclude from the feeble statements offered up by Thomas Mulcair and Justin Trudeau? Well, it's clear that they're a lot more upset over a $90,000 cheque made out to a disgraced senator by a long-departed chief-of-staff than they are about kids being killed in Gaza.
As for their caucus colleagues — the talking-point-happy usual suspects so eager to vent their indignation on camera over the alleged crimes of the Conservative Party and the PMO — when the subject of war crimes in Gaza comes up, they're invisible.
Not to be outdone in the indecency department, the President of the Green Party of Canada recently wrote a long diatribe – which he posted on his Facebook page – suggesting that Palestinian children are, in part, responsible for their own deaths.
"Gaza is giving children grenades … and asking their citizens to be sheep to the slaughter," Paul Estrin wrote on July 25. "Gazan officials tell their people to be killed while they hide in bomb shelters."
Estrin insists his letter is a reflection of "my personal perspective and do not necessarily speak to the thoughts and perspectives of the membership and direction of the Green Party of Canada."
Still, the letter is posted on the Green Party's website and you have to wonder if party leader, Elizabeth May, was aware of the its outrageous content or gave her consent before it was posted.
So what are the political dividends of this pusillanimity? For Mulcair, it's the hollow imprimatur of legitimacy. For Trudeau, it's the equally inconsequential halo of gravitas.
One Ottawa scribe wrote in May that 'Angry Tom' was unfit to govern because he had a prickly exchange with a female reporter in a scrum; that same writer is now praising the NDP leader's statement on Gaza as "mature." It would be a mistake to dismiss how important this validation from the neocon press is to Mulcair and NDP HQ. In their minds, it reinforces the image of Mulcair as a 'reasonable' centrist who can be trusted to govern responsibly. Despite his supposed social democrat credentials, he's really one of the boys at heart.
As for the pathetic, four-sentence statement on Gaza Trudeau issued July 15 (he hasn't said a word on the subject since), it was vacuous and likely written by someone else — more of the predictable tripe we've come to expect from a man who can only talk in clichés about "doing politics differently". Trudeau junior is nothing more than an empty suit.
The dreadful past few weeks have told us something about the people who think they're fit to lead this country. Thomas Mulcair is no Tommy Douglas. Justin Trudeau is no Lester Pearson. And Stephen Harper, of course, will always be Stephen Harper.
A note to readers: This will be my last column until early September. My family and I are taking much-needed time away together. Thank you for reading, responding to and sharing my columns. It is much appreciated. Best, AM.
Andrew Mitrovica is a writer and journalism instructor. For much of his career, Andrew was an investigative reporter for a variety of news organizations and publications including the CBC's fifth estate, CTV's W5, CTV National News — where he was the network's chief investigative producer — the Walrus magazine and the Globe and Mail, where he was a member of the newspaper's investigative unit. During the course of his 23-year career, Andrew has won numerous national and international awards for his investigative work.
The views, opinions and positions expressed by all iPolitics columnists and contributors are the author's alone. They do not inherently or expressly reflect the views, opinions and/or positions of iPolitics.


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Facing only some mild opposition within his own party Congressman John Boehner was easily elected to another term as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. But according to some recent polls over sixty percent of Republicans wanted Boehner out of his leadership position, believing the Ohio Republican has been ineffective in fighting against the Obama and Democrat agenda.
Unfortunately as is typical of career politicians, Boehner isn't really concerned about the desires and wishes of the American people he supposedly represents, as he moved full speed ahead in his bid for reelection to the Speakership.
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Many in the so-called 'Tea Party Wing' of the Republican Party have been unhappy with Boehner's leadership of Congress. Particularly with his recent compromises, some would call it a 'cave in', to the Obama Administration over funding the government and the president's plans to give amnesty to illegal aliens. Boehner has come under very sharp criticism by some of his Republican colleagues.
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Australia's heart-wrenching defeat to France in the Fed Cup final was not only a lost chance to end a 45-year title drought, it also represented a big moment in tennis history.
The home tie to decide the 2019 women's teams competition champions means the long-held home-and-away format used in Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams competition has come to an end.
In Madrid next week, the new world order will be unveiled as the revamped Davis Cup finals format - a week-long, 18-nation competition with best-of-three-sets matches - will be seen for the first time.
Like it or loathe it, it's the Davis Cup but not as we know it.
The week of tennis will showcase most - but not all - the world's leading players. Novak Djokovic will be there and Rafael Nadal will headline Spain's team. Fellow 'big three' member Roger Federer will be absent. Furthermore, top-10 player Alexander Zverev won't play for Germany.
It's one of the most significant revamps of the tennis calendar for decades, driven by the International Tennis Federation but thanks to a controversial 25-year, $3 billion partnership with Spanish investment group Kosmos, founded by Barcelona footballer Gerard Pique.
Davis Cup in numbers
- United States has 32 titles. Australia has 28
- The Davis Cup was founded in 1900
- Australasia (Australia and NZ) first won the Cup in 1907
- Between 1950 and '67, Australia won the Cup 15 times
- Australia has won the Davis Cup twice since 1986
- The new finals format includes 18 teams: 12 qualifiers, the previous semi-finalists and two wildcard nations
- The 18 teams will compete in six round-robin groups of three teams
- The six group winners plus the two second-placed teams (best records based on sets and games won) will qualify for the knockout phase.
A controversial concept in tennis, it's one that Pique has said came to him in a dream.
Australia, famously a 28-times Davis Cup winner - a record second only to the US - was fierce in its opposition to the changes, both when they were first floated and then ratified at the ITF's annual general meeting in August last year.
For example, Australia's greatest ever cup player and current captain, Lleyton Hewitt, once said the heavy involvement of Pique in tennis was ''... like me coming out and asking to change things for the [soccer] Champions League; it's ridiculous.''
The ITF believes change was inevitable and the sport should welcome outside investment because it would support weaker federations and make "a phenomenal difference to the bottom line of tennis".
ITF's executive director of professional tennis Kris Dent stressed to the The Age and Sydney Morning Herald this year that his body was responsible for propping up the grassroots, and the incoming funds from Kosmos were vital to that.
It's going to make a phenomenal difference to the bottom line of tennis.ITF executive director Kris Dent
"There's no doubt it's going to make a phenomenal difference to the bottom line of tennis because the tours, quite rightly – and I've worked for both of them – they don't invest into next generations,'' Dent said.
"They don't invest into the grassroots and neither should they. That's not their business model. That's our responsibility.
"And if we don't, then I don't know where the next generations of players come from outside of the nations with a long tennis heritage."
But there's an elephant in the room - the jam-packed tennis calendar and the land grabs, of sorts, from various governing bodies.
Only 40 days after the new Davis Cup champions are anointed in Madrid next Sunday, a new men's team competition, the ATP Cup, will also start in January as part of a revamped Australian summer tennis schedule.
It's a remarkably similar men's teams competition and presents an incongruous scheduling quirk. With big prizemoney and ranking points up for grabs, 24 nations will vie for the title with action to take place in three cities - Sydney, Brisbane and Perth - before the tennis-following audience readjusts its focus on the first major of 2020, the Australian Open in Melbourne.
In the Spanish capital this week, Australia is considered one of the leading chances but the host nation is the outright favourite. The green-and-gold-playing contingent - Alex de Minaur, Nick Kyrgios, John Millman, Jordan Thompson and doubles specialist John Peers - faces group competition against Belgium and Colombia before the competition gets really serious.
It was Hewitt's selection of Kyrgios, Australia's second highest ranked man, that stood out when the team was named.
Hewitt chose not to play Kyrgios in February's qualification against Bosnia and Herzegovina in Adelaide, in the aftermath of the Davis Cup selection brouhaha that was a sideshow at the Australian Open.
While Bernard Tomic made accusations about Hewitt favouring certain players for selection, Kyrgios criticised Hewitt on social media. Hewitt threw down the gauntlet to Kyrgios by not picking him and explained why.
"He has still got to meet the standards that we expect week in and week out. He knows what he has got to do," Hewitt said of Kyrgios at the time.
It seems Kyrgios has listened and the two have rebuilt bridges. Hewitt revealed they had a heart-to-heart conversation at Indian Wells in March when Kyrgios, who last played Davis Cup for Australia against Germany in Brisbane early last year, re-expressed a desire to play for his nation.
"He has been so willing to do whatever it takes to get back into the Davis Cup team and play for Australia," Hewitt said last month.
"He didn't play in Austria last year purely because of his body. Then obviously he had issues at the start of this year and for him it was straight away, I got a message: 'Mate, I want to get back in the team'."
That was all Hewitt needed to hear. Now all eyes are on Madrid.
Scott Spits is a sports reporter for The Age