Donald Trump is joined by daughter Ivanka at a news conference at the Trump National Golf Club, June 7, 2016.(AP Photo / Mary Altaffer)
The most powerful person in Donald Trump’s campaign is not a political professional but rather his own daughter, Ivanka. Amy Wilentz explains how Ivanka got there, and comments on her personal, and political, history.
Start Making Sense is hosted by Jon Wiener and co-produced by the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Also: Rosa Brooks talks about “how everything became war and the military became everything”—the title of her new book. She worked at the Pentagon; now she’s a law professor at Georgetown University.
Plus: We’re still thinking about the ’60s—and so is Calvin Trillin. He went to Mississippi in 1964 as a young journalist, and in the decades since, he’s written a lot about race in America. His new book is Jackson 1964.
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