Washington Monthly Contributing Editor Phil Keisling is a former Oregon Secretary of State (1991-99) and a former chair of the National Vote at Home Institute.
Voter turnout in California’s mail-ballot primary was off-the-charts. That’s a far more important story than waiting a week for results.
The Supreme Court’s recent rulings and the “Great American State Fair” reflect twin Trumpian visions of who belongs in America.
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The 47th president has smashed norms, enriched himself, and even bungled cleaning the Reflecting Pool. But July 4 still survives.
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July 4 is America’s birthday and the first anniversary of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the health care cuts that followed.
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The history of semicentennial American presidential oratory is limited, but Donald Trump’s upcoming semiquincentennial remarks are destined to mark a low point in the canon.
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The majority upholds state bans on trans athletes, sidelinging key evidence, scientific fact, and its own logic upholding trans rights in employment.
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Primary upsets in Maine, New York, and Colorado show a Democratic base furious over Trump, Israel, and elite impunity.
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An excellent report on Trump’s raiding of its funds to pay for his gaudy, gold-leaf D.C. makeover.
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