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May 24, 2022
Alex Shephard
Why on Earth Does Bill de Blasio Want to Be a Congressman?
There are better things for the former New York City mayor to do.
May 24, 2022
Daniel Strauss
The Crypto Kings Are Making Big Political Donations. What Could Go Wrong?
Sam Bankman-Fried may have lost in Oregon, but he and other crypto big shots have discovered politics. What will Democrats do for them in return?
May 21, 2022
Jason Linkins
There Are No Super PAC Cops
Let’s stop pretending that rules forbidding coordination between campaigns and dark money groups exist.
May 20, 2022
Alex Shephard
Madison Cawthorn’s Defeat Isn’t Going to Change the GOP
It’s normally a good sign when a political party sheds an embarrassing extremist. This is something different.
May 18, 2022
Alex Shephard
Did Democrats Make a Mistake by Hyping a Trumpy Insurrectionist in Pennsylvania?
The party believed Doug Mastriano would be the easiest candidate to beat in November, so they followed the same risky strategy that backfired tremendously in 2016.
May 18, 2022
Grace Segers
Kurt Schrader Could Be the Next Establishment Democrat Toppled by a Progressive Challenger
The Big Pharma–friendly congressman from Oregon’s 5th district is lagging Jamie McLeod-Skinner in Tuesday’s primary results. How big a bellwether is it for the left?
May 18, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Democrats Are Frozen With Fear of the Midterm Voter
With poll numbers growing more dire by the day, the party needs to shake off its torpor and remind people what it stands for.
May 14, 2022
Jason Linkins
Biden’s Embrace of Unions Is a Boon for Democracy
The White House’s support for labor organizing will become critical if Democrats get locked out of power at the federal level in November.
May 13, 2022
Maya Wiley
Hope Is Not Naïve; It’s the Only Path to Victory
Yes, we haven’t gotten all we want. But we have to let people know that the only way to get more is to vote.
May 13, 2022
Timothy Noah
If You Can’t Love Biden, He’ll Settle for You Hating Trump
The president has finally acknowledged that fear motivates voters more than love and started attacking MAGA America. Will it work?
May 12, 2022
Alex Shephard
House Democrats Are Backing Abortion Foe Henry Cuellar at the Worst Possible Moment
The party needs to decide what it cares about more: its Beltway friends or reproductive rights.
May 11, 2022
Daniel Strauss
Big Pharma’s Favorite Democrat Has a Tough Race in Oregon
Kurt Schrader helped bury prescription drug reform. And now he seems to have a tough primary next Tuesday.
May 11, 2022
Katherine Stewart
The Democratic Party Is Shedding Latino Voters. Here’s Why.
Republicans have deftly targeted this election-swinging voter demographic with a massive investment in media and messaging.
May 11, 2022
Grace Segers
Sharice Davids Has Money on Her Mind as She Plots a Course to Reelection
In an interview with The New Republic, Kansas’s lone Democrat says she’s focused on boosting the economic fortunes of her constituents and staving off the effects of inflation.
May 9, 2022
Alex Shephard
With
Roe,
the GOP is the Dog That Caught the Car
Why Republicans don’t yet want to talk about the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
May 9, 2022
Michael Tomasky
Mitch McConnell Said Something That Can Help Democrats Win the Midterms
Democrats need to see to it that McConnell’s remark about Congress possibly passing a federal abortion ban is known to every single American voter.
May 7, 2022
Jason Linkins
The Tragedy of the Expanded Child Tax Credit
As the midterms loom, the recipients of the now-expired benefit are turning against Democrats.
May 6, 2022
Daniel Strauss
Roe
Leak Fallout: Democratic Attorneys General Plan Push to Make Abortion an Issue
Exclusive: The umbrella organization of Democratic attorneys general is commencing a major expenditure to make abortion rights front and center.
May 4, 2022
Alex Shephard
Never Trump Never Stood a Chance
J.D. Vance earned Trump’s endorsement by renouncing his anti-Trump past. The Senate candidate’s comeback victory in Ohio’s Republican primary will only intensify the stampede to kiss the king’s ring.
May 4, 2022
Cliff Schecter
Ohio Republicans Send Marin County Wine-Sipper Into November Battle
J.D. Vance is about as authentically Ohioan as a bar of Ghirardelli chocolate. Alas, only one endorsement mattered.
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