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Bill Scher
Bill Scher is the politics editor of the Washington Monthly. He is the host of the history podcast When America Worked and the cohost of the bipartisan online show and podcast The DMZ.
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Posted inPolitics
Georgia’s Election Laws Couldn’t Stop Raphael Warnock
Critics of the changes to state voting laws called them “Jim Crow 2.0.”
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Time is Running Out to Protect the Civil Service
As president, Trump had a plan to crush the federal workforce, replacing thousands of careerists with conservative cronies. The next GOP standard-bearer is likely to champion just such a purge.
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How Arizona’s Governor-Elect Katie Hobbs Beat Crazytown
Pundits slammed her low-key campaign and skipping debates with Kari Lake, the polished former news anchor—but look who’s laughing now.
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Democrats Meddled in Republican Primaries. Good.
The New York Times, plenty of pundits, and even some Democrats clutched their pearls and condemned the practice as unseemly. It wasn’t—and it worked.
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America Does Care About Democracy and Abortion Rights
The history of midterm elections is one of beatings exacted upon the president’s party. With inflation red hot, President Joe Biden’s job approval low, and Republican Senate candidates rising in the polls, most everyone expected history to repeat itself. It didn’t. We don’t yet know which party will control either the House or Senate, but […]
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Can Democrats Make Us Care About Democracy?
Biden, Obama, and the party made it their closing argument. We’ll see if it worked.
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Will the Midterms be a “Wave” Election–and Does It Matter?
The issue isn’t just a couple dozen House seats. It’s the deep malaise of our political system.
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To Save the Planet, Divide and Conquer
Democrats make progress on climate change when they set business lobbies against each other.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
The 10 Worst Candidates Running This Year
To make this list, you can’t just be an election denier or a right-wing zombie. You also have to be able to wreak havoc.
