Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures during a news conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan on May 31, 2016.(Reuters / Lucas Jackson)
Katha Pollitt explains how employees’ complaints of sexual harassment forced out Roger Ailes—and examines Donald Trump’s comments about it.
Start Making Sense is hosted by Jon Wiener and co-produced by the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Plus: Ari Berman analyzes the effect of voting rights victories in court on Trump’s chances in North Carolina and other swing states.
And David Zirin reports from the Olympics in Rio—the protests, the displaced people, and the real problem: not the Brazilian government but the International Olympic Committee.
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