Osita Nwanevu

@OsitaNwanevu

A small universe of activists have no intention of letting Biden’s affection for Senate norms capsize his agenda.

Trumpism has become America’s latest civic religion, and it won’t be voted out of office in November.

Trump’s opponents are so concerned that he might steal the election that they have forgotten to worry that he might simply win it.

New polls show that the premature consensus about Trump’s rhetoric was wrong—for now, anyway.

In the most important election of our lifetime, Joe Biden will have to risk everything.

The Republican critique of misrule in American cities has some merit, and it’s not clear that Joe Biden’s party is prepared to meet the need.

Progressives have gotten all they can out of the election season. After November, they will have to raise a ruckus to secure victory.

His Bay State tussle with Ed Markey is illuminating some raw truths about youth, dynasty, and a Democratic Party stuck between generations.

The president’s pearl-clutching critics have forgotten how defaming Democrats’ faith is a longstanding tradition for the GOP.

Are the Democrats ready for grotesque attacks about the senator’s ex-boyfriend Willie Brown?

During his eulogy for John Lewis, Barack Obama seemed keen to bury the Senate's procedural relic once and for all.

The GOP is mostly insulated from the consequences that voters might be inclined to dole out in November.

This band of anti-Trump conservatives may be viral hitmakers for the moment, but they have nothing to offer America’s future.

It’s getting harder and harder to explain away a bevy of bad numbers, but the president’s allies are valiantly spinning on.

He may be wildly more popular than Trump, but he can’t rescue America from the ignorance and incompetence of the Trump White House.

The president believes he can win reelection if voters become indifferent to the dead and suffering. Is Joe Biden capable of proving him wrong?

The critics of progressive identity politics have got it all wrong: They’re the illiberal ones.

If he leads a Democratic wave in 2020, he’ll have to choose: Give representation to 700,000 people or preserve the filibuster.

In his latest campaign kickoff rally, the president maps his desperate plan to overcome the national crisis he enabled and win reelection.

The mass movement seeking justice for George Floyd may not have shifted Biden’s running-mate calculus, but it’s added plenty of complications.