In a new book, Isabella Weber argues that Democrats underestimated inflation’s political costs. Her prescription is provocative, but not without risks.
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Trump’s Midterm Rally Blitz Probably Won’t Work
The track record of presidents who hit the campaign trail in midterm election years is poor, especially when their job approval is underwater.
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Why Won’t the Clean Energy Industry Play Dirty?
Since sweeping to power in 2025, Republicans have waged an all-out war on clean energy. Congress gutted major clean energy and electric vehicle subsidies enacted under Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, killed state-level rules to spur electric vehicle adoption, and blocked legislation to ease permitting for wind power projects. The Trump administration has gone further, […]
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Never Forgetting 9/11 Means Learning Lessons
In the 48 hours before the devastating terrorist attacks, the Bush administration was insisting we spend enough on counterterrorism and not enough on national missile defense.
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How to Build a Big Tent
Socialists and left populists have argued that a Democratic big tent should include figures like Hasan Piker. But the Democrats’ best coalition builder of the last 60 years, Barack Obama, had a different strategy.
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The Myth of the Establishment Democrat
Establishment is used as a description and even a slur, but it’s really just misleading.
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Democratic Voters Are Boiling Mad at the Democratic Establishment, and It’s Ridiculous
The opposition party is on an electoral roll yet is pilloried for not fighting Donald Trump hard enough.
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How Left Will Democrats Go In 2028? That Depends on 2026
Democratic voters, long partial to candidates who show a capacity for bipartisan compromise over ideological purity, may be changing.
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Trump’s Election Integrity Speech Was Even Worse Than You Thought
When President Donald Trump addressed the nation regarding alleged vulnerabilities in the U.S. election system, he proclaimed that “no country can be great without fair and honest elections.” No argument there. What he said, however, was mostly not new, and what was new was riddled with overstatement and exaggeration. While he promised the truth lay […]
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Trump’s Election Integrity Dud
Donald Trump’s White House address to the nation about election integrity landed with all the force of a cotton ball. No one who has followed the last three presidential elections would have predicted an honest accounting from the 47th president, who continues to falsely insist that he won the 2020 contest against Joe Biden. The […]
