Political scientist Seth Masket’s new book explains how history and party mechanics made Donald Trump’s ascent inevitable. The party may never recover.
Anne Kim
Anne Kim is a Senior Editor at Washington Monthly and the author of Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich Off America’s Poor (New Press, 2024). Anne is also a Senior Fellow at FutureEd and the author of Abandoned: America’s Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection, winner of the 2020 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. Anne is on Bluesky @anne-s-kim.bsky.social.
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“If You’re Busting Your Butt, You Should Be Able to Get Ahead”
Third Way’s Jim Kessler discusses the think tank’s new policy agenda for middle-class America.
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Democrats’ Next Big Ideas
Third Way offers a “new economic bargain” with the middle-class: “If you’re busting your butt, you should be able to get ahead.”
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Why Political Polling Seems So Unreliable
Veteran pollster Stefan Hankin points to several factors wrecking polling’s reputation.
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Is Political Polling Broken?
Veteran pollster Stefan Hankin reveals the industry secrets that help explain why polls seem so unreliable.
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AI Has an Anti-Woman Problem. Here’s How to Fix It
The CEO of the world’s first “female-forward” AI startup has a plan for tackling bias in artificial intelligence.
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AI’s Anti-Woman Problem
As regulators tackle AI safety, they should also consider bias.
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Vote By Mail Is Safe—For Now
Vote-at-home pioneers Phil Keisling and Barbara Smith Warner weigh in on the long-term impacts of Trump’s campaign against vote by mail.
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The Precarious Future of Vote by Mail
Democracy’s defenders won round one, but Donald Trump has done plenty of damage to Americans’ faith in voting at home.
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Barney Frank’s Last Harsh Warning to the Left
The late congressman’s posthumous book condemns dogmatic insistence on unpopular ideas and offers a roadmap for reconciliation between the center and the left.
