We have to decode what the Trump administration is really saying — and as Americans, what we're willing to tolerate.

As we reach the end of annus horribilis 2016, take some time to read — or listen — to these suggestions from a few of our friends.

Too often, critics misconstrue dog whistling as a form of personal bigotry, as Hillary Clinton did last night, and that misses the cold calculation of expressing racially loaded ideas in coded terms.

Last night, Sen. Elizabeth Warren called out Donald Trump and the GOP for the dog-whistle politics they are playing. Democrats need to amplify her message if they want to win in November.

The triumph of Trump has demonstrated the cost of the devil’s bargain that party elites — and the media — have accepted over the years.

In Trump's world, everything's a conspiracy and reality's turned upside down.

Disgusted by his opponent's dog-whistle campaign, Great Britain's capital elected its first Muslim mayor.

The story of our nation’s long practice of welcoming immigrants is an American triumph, all the more so because it has been achieved over constant resistance. A historian argues we must fight again.

Deportations reached another record high last year and seem to be the Democratic response to right-wing dog whistling around Latino immigrants.

Many Republicans have been depicting ISIS not primarily as a foreign concern, but as a domestic threat that may portend the invasion of America via our southern border with Mexico.