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Election 2020
July 24, 2020
Matt Ford
Trump’s Greatest Liability Is His Own Incumbency
The president’s latest reelection strategy is to darkly warn voters about the chaos he created.
July 22, 2020
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump Has Permanently Changed the Publishing Industry
The business of bookselling is more political and partisan than ever before. Things won’t go back to normal after Trump leaves office.
July 22, 2020
David Roth
Donald Trump Is Devouring His Country
Stuff himself as he may with refried globs of culture war muck, the president has a hole in his gullet that he’ll never quite fill.
July 22, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
Trump’s Polling Decline Is Tying the Conservative Media in Knots
It’s getting harder and harder to explain away a bevy of bad numbers, but the president’s allies are valiantly spinning on.
July 20, 2020
Alex Shephard
The Only Person Who’s Figured Out How to Interview Trump
Chris Wallace showed it isn’t that hard to ask tough questions and fact-check in real time.
July 20, 2020
Libby Watson
I Scored Worse Than Donald Trump Did on That Brain Test
Why the president’s claim that he got “all 35” questions right on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment is meaningless.
July 17, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Threat of a GOP That Accepts Climate Change
The Republican Party could be ready to discard climate denial. But you might not like what comes next.
July 17, 2020
Gabriele Magni
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Andrew Reynolds
The Empathy of Black Voters
Research shows that African Americans support candidates from marginalized groups, including LGBTQ people, more than their white counterparts.
July 16, 2020
Libby Watson
Trump’s Campaign Doesn’t Need a New Manager. It Needs a New Candidate.
Brad Parscale’s demotion will do nothing to fix the president’s self-inflicted problems.
July 16, 2020
Alex Shephard
Twitter Is Not Prepared for the 2020 Election
This week’s unprecedented security breach revealed the platform’s terrifying flaws, and the potential chaos hackers could cause in the future.
July 15, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
The Long War on Objectivity
What enabled the rise of today’s right-wing media empire?
July 15, 2020
Kate Aronoff
Why Is Biden Clinging to the Dream of Green Factories?
The candidate’s plan to “win the future” through American export domination has multiple problems.
July 14, 2020
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump Jr. Wages a Culture War on the Publishing Industry
He evidently believes that he can make more money self-publishing—especially if he portrays the move as a rebuke of liberal elites.
July 10, 2020
Timothy Noah
The Two Sides of Biden’s Economic Plan
On paper, he seems obsessed with besting Trump as a trade warrior. But his rhetoric suggests he wants to pick a fight with the aristocrats.
July 10, 2020
Alex Shephard
Mary Trump Diagnoses the President
A dark new family history from Donald Trump’s niece may be the most intimate psychological portrait of him yet.
July 9, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
Trump Is Numbing America to the Pandemic’s Ravages
The president believes he can win reelection if voters become indifferent to the dead and suffering. Is Joe Biden capable of proving him wrong?
July 9, 2020
Kate Aronoff
The Limits of Democrats’ Climate Progress
The Unity Task Force climate recommendations are a huge improvement on policy proposals last election cycle. Now what?
July 9, 2020
Matt Ford
Fear of a Forever-Trump Administration
There doesn’t seem to be much faith in the peaceful transition of power, if the burgeoning canon of postelection pulp horror is any guide.
July 8, 2020
Matt Ford
The Electoral College Is an American Humiliation
If the Supreme Court no longer believes the lie that’s sustained this hastily concocted relic from our nation’s founding, why should anyone?
July 2, 2020
Timothy Noah
The Democrats’ Dumb Idea to Cut Pandemic Unemployment Benefits
This week’s job numbers demonstrate that this is no time to compromise with Mitch McConnell.
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