Third Way offers a “new economic bargain” with the middle-class: “If you’re busting your butt, you should be able to get ahead.”
2028 election
Posted inPolitics
JD Vance Is the Most Mistreated Vice President Since … Well, The Last Two
The vice president’s humiliations in Budapest and Islamabad raise the question: Why did Trump set him up to fail?
Posted inNewsletter
Women Are Getting Slammed in Trump’s Economy
Women are losing jobs, leaving the workforce, and reporting high levels of financial insecurity.
Posted inPodcast
Tough Medicine for Democrats: “Too Liberal” and “Out of Touch”
Democrats are riding high after this year’s special elections, but that doesn’t mean they’re popular with voters. Strategist Simon Bazelon has advice on what to fix.
Posted inPolitics
The Clairvoyant Marjorie Taylor Greene
She understood before the rest of the GOP, including the president, that an era was coming to an end, and that the party base wanted more than obedience to Trump.
Posted inNovember/December 2025
Rural Revival
With the onset of the Great Depression, the United States appeared on the verge of political revolt in rural areas. For half a century, rural people had felt increasingly marginalized by changes in American society and the economy and ignored by political leaders. A farm crisis in the 1920s inflicted further pain. By 1933, with […]
Posted inPolitics
Why Andy Beshear Is a First-Tier Presidential Contender
If he runs for president, the Kentucky Governor has a proven ability to win red-state voters in the general and a populist streak that can prevail in the primaries.
Posted inPolitics
Joe Biden Has Nothing to Do With the 2028 Election
Democratic presidential aspirants should not feel obligated to self-flagellate to win back the public trust.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Donald Trump’s Third-Term Enablers
Sophists posing as scholars are always available to misread the Constitution.
