Presidential campaign strategist David Plouffe calls for a Democratic overhaul to survive 2030 Census changes to the Electoral College map, but demographic shifts really threaten the GOP.
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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.
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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.
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Affordability Wars
Trump meets with Mamdani, whose unlikely New York City win was fueled by the affordability crisis, as Vance offers conflicting explanations for high prices.
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Trump’s Poll Numbers Just Entered the Danger Zone
In November, for the first time in his second term, the president’s average job approval dropped below 45 percent. That spells trouble for the 2026 midterms.
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Trump Could Deal With the Epstein Scandal by Addressing Health Care
Republicans know that soon-to-spike health insurance costs are political poison but have no antidote. Maybe the sex-trafficking disclosure can spur them to contain premium hikes.
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Stop Asking How Democrats Will Fight Trump. Start Asking Republicans
The president is supplanting long-standing Republican principles of limited government, free markets, low taxes, and federalism with his trademark incompetent authoritarianism.
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Republicans Under Pressure: Redistricting, Economy, Israel
The editors discuss the ongoing redistricting fight in Texas, economic turmoil, and the deepening divisions over Israel’s policy in Gaza.
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The Incompetent Malfeasance of Today’s Republican Party
They’re mendacious buffoons, but their lack of political acumen makes them no less dangerous than if they knew how to shoot straight.
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How to End Republican Exploitation of Rural America
The authors of the upcoming book “White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy” explain how rural voters can build a national political movement and improve their local economies.
