The right danced a jig of joy over Dr. Anthony Fauci’s invoking the Fifth Amendment before Rand Paul’s Senate Homeland Security Committee. The Kentucky Republican knew in advance that Fauci would give no substantive testimony. Yet he paraded the 85-year-old doctor before the cameras to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights over a hundred times, then […]
John Fetterman
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Leave John Fetterman Alone
Democrats have multiple paths to the Senate majority but losing their contrarian member would make every one of them harder.
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A Wasted Opportunity for Biden (But Still Time for Redemption)
A Wasted Opportunity for Biden (But Still Time for Redemption). Ronald Reagan overcame a bad debate that triggered panic about his age. Here’s how Biden can do the same.
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Approve the Nippon-U.S. Steel Deal
Far from erasing a historic American company, as the senators fret, Nippon’s acquisition may rescue It.
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Midterms: How Rival Regional Cultures Explain Our Sharp Divides
The polarized electorate isn’t blue/red or urban/rural. It’s the colonizing projects of the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Political Lessons of 2022 from Bill Scher
Our prescient political writer explains why swing voters matter, why bipartisanship is popular and possible, and how to beat voter suppression.
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How Democrats Won More Rural Votes in 2022
They listened to the Washington Monthly.
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Can Democrats Make Us Care About Democracy?
Biden, Obama, and the party made it their closing argument. We’ll see if it worked.
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The Republican Mess in Pennsylvania
In the contest for an open U.S. Senate seat, the toss-up between “Dr. Oz” and David McCormick stands in stark contrast to the unified Democrats.
