After four years of running in place, November 2016 seems like a lifetime ago. The United States of 2020 is a very different place, at once more devastated and more hopeful than at least we were a mere four years ago.
October 8, 2020October 7, 2020 Recent polls suggest that Trump’s debate performance last week (was it only last week?!) and his attempt to look strong after coronavirus spread through the White House have not helped him politically. Most polls have him behind Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden by double digits. An article in Politico today was subtitled: “The new surveys fall into two buckets: those that are bad for the president, and those that are horrible.” Trump’s plan for the election ...
August 15, 2020Post Office, Homeland Security, Russia and an actual devastating storm
October 9, 2018This is the boldest, bravest and most bracing book about politics that I have read this year.
October 23, 2017A former Democratic operative writes in The New York Times that the party needs to drop FDR-style progressive politics and strengthen ties to Wall Street. He's dead wrong.
August 25, 2017George McGovern’s alternative path for the Democratic Party.
August 21, 2017Artists rebuke Trump in a cleverly worded protest letter disbanding his arts council, and the president announces he won’t attend this year’s Kennedy Center Honors.
June 30, 2017Once elected, Ro Khanna was supposed to go back to being a centrist. Instead, he veered way left.
June 5, 2017Geography matters. And unlike some other groups in the Democrats' coalition, white working-class voters go to the polls regularly.
May 30, 2017“When people in power invent their own facts and attack those who question them, it can mark the beginning of the end of a free society.”
