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Election 2020
June 13, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
Democratic Veepstakes in a Time of Protest
The mass movement seeking justice for George Floyd may not have shifted Biden’s running-mate calculus, but it’s added plenty of complications.
June 10, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
The Disappearing Backlash to Black Lives Matter
Americans are slowly, but surely, growing tired of broad societal injustices—and less susceptible to the right’s mechanisms of racial resentment.
June 9, 2020
Matt Ford
The Glaring Hole in the Democrats’ Police Reform Bill
The proposed legislation does little to reform the federal law enforcement agencies that have flooded the capital in recent weeks.
June 8, 2020
Bruce Bartlett
He Is Even Dumber Than We Thought
Four years in office have only convinced more Americans that the Trump might not be a stable genius.
June 5, 2020
Matt Ford
This Is a Good Moment to Hear Joe Biden’s Thoughts on Attorneys General
With the Justice Department in full collapse, the presumptive nominee could spark a timely discussion about its future leadership.
June 1, 2020
Bruce Bartlett
How the Democrats Should Imitate the Republican Party
Many of the political tactics that put Donald Trump in the White House can be used to kick him out.
May 30, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
The Deep Amnesia of Our National Conscience
There can be no healing in America without an honest reckoning with racial injustice—but we have long known that.
May 29, 2020
Alex Shephard
Mark Zuckerberg Comes to Trump’s Defense
Casting himself as a free speech warrior, the Facebook CEO reveals his company’s increasingly rightward bent.
May 28, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
The Implausibility of an “Explosive” Economic Rebound by November
Democrats fear that a dramatic recovery could help Trump win reelection. The number of job losses and coronavirus deaths suggests otherwise.
May 27, 2020
Alex Shephard
Twitter Can’t Rein In Donald Trump
Fact-checking the president—or even deleting his tweets—is a futile exercise.
May 22, 2020
Matt Ford
The Blue Wave That Saved the Vote
Democrats may soon discover that their most important accomplishment in the last election wasn’t retaking the House of Representatives.
May 20, 2020
Matt Ford
Donald Trump’s Never-Ending War on Numbers
The president has spent most of his career fudging the math, but his outstanding debt to the truth is finally coming due.
May 19, 2020
Kate Aronoff
How Democrats Can Win Coal Country—and the 2020 Election
The fossil fuel industry is hemorrhaging jobs in swing states.
May 15, 2020
Alex Shephard
Obamagate Is the Ultimate Republican Non-Scandal
Donald Trump says his predecessor committed the “greatest crime in American political history.” So why can’t he explain what it is?
May 12, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
The Election Will Not Be Judgment Day
A massive undertaking lies ahead of Joe Biden if he truly wants an epochal shift in American politics.
May 9, 2020
Libby Watson
The Depressing Future of the #MeToo Movement
The radical promise of “Believe Women” has been an unintended casualty of the quickly fading Biden sexual misconduct controversy.
May 5, 2020
Alex Shephard
Why Do Democrats Keep Embracing George W. Bush?
Holding Bush up as a paragon of civic virtue underscores the party’s failures to present a real alternative.
May 2, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
Democrats are Losing at Political Rhetoric
While Joe Biden has struggled to say anything truly memorable to voters this year, it’s a malady shared by his party’s key figures in the post-Obama era.
April 29, 2020
Jason Linkins
The Democrats’ Very Revealing Angst About Justin Amash
If the would-be Libertarian candidate “spoils” the race, Joe Biden and his party will have no one to blame but themselves.
April 29, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
It’s Time to Build a Better Political Culture
Our civic life has become a vast desert, devoid of nerve or imagination, and it’s slowly killing us.
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