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Reporting and analysis on American politics: campaigns, elections, Congress, the White House, and the fight to make our democracy work.
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As Washington Falters, California Leads the Way on Scientific Research
Using its economic leverage, the Golden State has been forging its own scientific path for 25 years. Here’s how.
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Rebuilding the Republic From the Bottom Up
Democrats are winning on economic populism. To make lasting change, they should pair it with an ambitious agenda for democratic reform.
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Venezuela and the Dawn of the Don-roe Doctrine
Nicolás Maduro is in American custody. With that simple fact, the Western Hemisphere’s geopolitical landscape has irrevocably shifted. The United States has crossed a threshold, trading years of sanctions and diplomatic pressure for swift, decisive military action. This is a historic pivot, a moment that will be studied for decades, not only for its impact […]
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Why We Need a New Dickens
Everyone cares about Oliver Twist. Now we need to help the Artful Dodgers.
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What Bill Clinton Learned from Jim Hunt and Why It Still Matters
It was a beautiful North Carolina spring day in 2000 at the governor’s mansion in Raleigh, and Governor Jim Hunt was sprinting down the giant ruby-red stairs. I was his then-young press aide, and we were running late because he had been on the phone with President Bill Clinton. Naively, I noted something about their […]
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The Trump Boomerang Effect: Bari Weiss, Meet Ozymandias
While Trump muscles the media and renames the Kennedy Center, history will get the last laugh. Just ask the good people of Appleton, Wisconsin.
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NATO’s Myopic Accounting Ignores Maritime Superpower Greece
The alliance demands its members spend 2 percent of GDP on defense, but its green-eye shade focus ignores Athens’ massive sealift capacity.
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The GOP War on Nurses
To pay for tax cuts, Republicans cut graduate student loan support for female-dominated professions. That turns out to be bad policy and terrible politics.
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Donald Trump’s Go-it-Alone America
Trump’s uniquely toxic brand of “self-reliance” threatens the collective strength that truly makes America great.
