Platner’s Conspiracy-Laden, Bitter Farewell. He could have gone out on notes of grace, optimism, and Democratic unity.
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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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Graham Platner and the Working-Class Fetish
This bloc won’t be wooed by cosplay and pandering.
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If Graham Platner Won’t Quit, Democrats Need to Quit Him
The party cannot credibly defend women’s rights and the rule of law while standing behind a Senate nominee accused of rape.
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America at 250: An Idealist Without Illusions
For all of our understandable angst, let’s chart the good change since the Bicentennial.
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Independence Day, From Jefferson to Reagan to Trump
The 47th president has smashed norms, enriched himself, and even bungled cleaning the Reflecting Pool. But July 4 still survives.
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Democratic Voters Have Had Enough
Primary upsets in Maine, New York, and Colorado show a Democratic base furious over Trump, Israel, and elite impunity.
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What Trump Has to Say on America’s 250th Birthday Won’t Top Coolidge and Ford
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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Our National Parks Deserve Better Than Trump
An excellent report on Trump’s raiding of its funds to pay for his gaudy, gold-leaf D.C. makeover.
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The Fight in the Democratic Party Is Not Left vs. Center, But Left vs. Left
The recent string of primary victories from left-wing insurgents are not ushering out moderates, but fellow progressives.
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The Strait of Hormuz is Iran’s Nuclear Weapon
Two Iran experts on how the U.S. plays checkers and Iran plays chess.
