T.R. Ramachandran
T. R. Ramachandran is a blogger on politics, policy and media, a longtime veteran of the tech industry and co-founder of Kanvz. You can follow his latest work on Twitter @yottapoint or on the web at electionado.com.
Hate crimes in the United States rose from 2022 to 2023.
By Jesse Valentine - April 15, 2024Cao is a former U.S Navy captain.
By Jesse Valentine - March 29, 2024Kiggans has flirted with baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
By Jesse Valentine - March 08, 2024Ohio voted to protect abortion rights. GOP senate candidate Bernie Moreno doesn't care.
By Jesse Valentine - March 07, 2024Syngenta AG owns approximately 1500 acres of U.S farmland.
By Jesse Valentine - March 04, 2024Hovde is running for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin despite primarily residing in California.
By Jesse Valentine - February 26, 2024McCormick says we need leaders with the moral clarity to condemn antisemitism.
By Jesse Valentine - February 09, 2024Of the nearly dozen gun bills lawmakers will soon take up, one is particularly noteworthy because it’s backed by unlikely allies: mental health advocates and a pair of House members who’ve long been at opposite ends of firearm legislation.
By Annmarie Timmins, New Hampshire Bulletin - January 31, 2024The United Auto Workers of America endorsed the re-election of President Joe Biden Wednesday, just months after he became the first sitting U.S. president to walk a picket line with striking autoworkers in Michigan.
By Ashley Murray, States Newsroom - January 24, 2024Gunter has repeatedly referred to Brown as “Scam Brown”
By Jesse Valentine - January 17, 2024The state of Texas robbed Amanda Zurawski of her fertility and almost her life when it wouldn’t permit her an abortion so she’s gone to the state’s Supreme Court to change the law - “this is why I’m on earth”
By Bonnie Fuller - January 10, 2024Health care-focused organizations across the state are hopeful that the 2024 legislative session will be a year that reins in health costs and allows patients to have greater access to the care they need.
By Danielle J. Brown, Maryland Matters - January 08, 2024Five people died on January 6, 2021 – including a police officer who was bludgeoned to death.
By Jesse Valentine - January 05, 2024On Wednesday, the New Hampshire House passed a bill that would make registering to vote an online experience.
By Ethan DeWitt, New Hampshire Bulletin - January 04, 2024Most Americans believe wealthy individuals and big corporations don’t pay their fair share in taxes.
By Jesse Valentine - December 22, 2023Even the Republican senator's home county gave Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear a larger share of the vote than four years earlier.
By - December 15, 2023Republicans Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton have taken thousands of dollars in donations from chemical companies and their affiliated PACs.
By Jesse Valentine - December 08, 2023Eric Hovde's proposal is similar to Sen. Rick Scott's unpopular 2022 plan to make every American pay income taxes.
By Jesse Valentine - December 07, 2023A bipartisan package of bills in Michigan signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, creates specified criminal penalties for assaulting health care workers.
By Anna Liz Nichols, Michigan Advance - December 06, 2023Both former President Donald Trump and former U.S. Rep. George Santos have lied about their records and been accused of defrauding veterans.
By Jesse Valentine - December 05, 2023Millions of Texas families’ health and well-being would be jeopardized if the legislation were repealed.
By Jesse Valentine - December 04, 2023More than 3 million Floridians will lose their health insurance if Scott and Trump succeed.
By Jesse Valentine - November 30, 2023Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves took $98,000 from Mississippi Power and executives of its parent company.
By Jesse Valentine - November 06, 2023The Republican gubernatorial nominee also broke his promises to make the office more frugal.
By Jesse Valentine - November 03, 2023It might not surprise Mississippians that The Cook Political Report, regarded as one of the nation’s preeminent elections experts, shifted their 2023 Mississippi governor’s race forecast on Monday in Democrat Brandon Presley’s direction.
By Adam Ganucheau, Mississippi Today - October 24, 2023As the investigation into Donald Trump’s ties to Russia heats up, his supporters are taking to the internet to assert that Trump’s campaign did not collude with Russia — and even more remarkably, that collusion with Russia is not a crime. Those assertions are simply not correct. The testimony of former FBI Director James Comey made […]
By T.R. Ramachandran - July 08, 2017Democrat Jon Ossoff’s loss in a special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District to Republican Karen Handel, by a margin of 3.8 percent, disappointed Democrats and led to criticisms of Ossoff and the Democratic Party. As is often the case, many of the criticisms were not based on facts. Ossoff was criticized for not being […]
By T.R. Ramachandran - June 25, 2017[Background: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.] Aggressive Reporting Is Not The Same As Journalism In her Brookings article, Susan Glasser of Politico applauded the “aggressive reporting” done by the media during Election 2016: If ever there were a campaign that called for aggressive reporting, this one did, and it produced terrific examples of […]
By T.R. Ramachandran - December 17, 2016[Background: Part One and Part Two.] Speed Thrills But Kills The media business is aggressively competitive and an extremely tough one in which to succeed. Understandably, therefore, metrics like traffic (quantity) are very important for media outlets. However, the big story of U.S. political press in the last two decades has been that a focus […]
By T.R. Ramachandran - December 15, 2016Policy is “Boring” In Part 1 (The Death of Accuracy), I outlined how the public’s view of Hillary Clinton was completely distorted by deceptive media coverage — to the point where, on many fronts, she was wrongly portrayed as worse than Donald Trump. All of that was symptomatic of a media culture that largely preferred deceptive scandal-mongering […]
By T.R. Ramachandran - December 14, 2016A State of Denial Susan Glasser, an editor at Politico, recently wrote an article about the media, “Covering Politics in a Post-Truth America,” that was published by the Brookings Institute. Much of Glasser’s article discusses some of her own interesting history as a journalist and how the mainstream media in Washington, D.C., has evolved over […]
By T.R. Ramachandran - December 13, 2016