Voters do care about threats to democracy, but so far their concern isn’t helping Democrats. Here’s why.
Political Animal
Posted inJuly/August 2022
No Way to Build a Railroad
Maryland’s outgoing GOP Governor Larry Hogan is eyeing a 2024 run for president. He is also leaving behind a mass transit mess.
Posted inMagazine
Why We Need Speechwriters Who Look Like America
America’s first Black presidential speechwriter on how leaders can speak more effectively to a diversifying country.
Posted inBooks
Cognitive Dissonance in America’s Dairy Land
Wisconsin farmers admire and depend on their undocumented Mexican laborers—and still vote for Trump.
Posted inBooks
How Mitch McConnell Made the Senate Even Worse
Republican power grabs and hyper partisanship are just part of his grim reign as Senate Republican Leader.
Posted inBooks
Washington’s Hundred-Year War on Gays
A rich, harrowing chronicle of the federal government’s oppression of homosexuals in the 20th century firmly refuses to draw any connection to today’s struggles.
Posted inBooks
Stop Thanking Vets and Start Listening To Them
The National Book Award winner for fiction offers essays that help explain and bind our post-9/11 wounds.
Posted inBooks
Neoliberalism Is Dying. What Comes Next?
History shows that the period between the end of one political order and the beginning of another is a time of maximum danger.
