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Gretchen Whitmer
January 13, 2022
Daniel Strauss
Democratic Governors May Be Democracy’s Last Line of Defense
If Democratic incumbents and challengers in swing states can’t win in 2022, then the GOP may be able to do what it wants in 2024.
August 6, 2021
Magazine
John Patrick Leary
The “Reopening” Celebrations Were Misguided and Premature
Many Americans worked through the worst of the pandemic in jobs that exposed them to Covid. These people are working still, as many others retreat to safety again amid the surge of the Delta variant.
May 6, 2021
Astra Taylor
In Defense of Liberal Conspirators
Our inability to truly conspire is why so many people are struggling today.
October 28, 2020
Frank Smyth
The Myths Fueling Today’s Armed Right
How the NRA seeded the storylines animating the violent groups that will be patrolling this year’s election
October 12, 2020
Harel Shapira
The All-American Mind of a Militia Member
I’ve spent years with men like the ones charged in a Michigan plot to kidnap the governor. They aren’t outsiders—they’re intimate products of American democracy.
October 11, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
The Martyrdom of Donald Trump
Pandemic be damned, the president intends to see out the conservative mission of cutting out America’s democratic heart.
July 29, 2020
Walter Shapiro
Stop Fretting About Biden’s VP Choice
It won’t be what makes or breaks his chances against Trump.
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.
April 18, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
Donald Trump’s Coronavirus Death Cult Takes to the Streets
The president has transformed yesterday’s Tea Party revolutionaries into worshippers of authoritarian power in Washington.
August 8, 2018
Jeet Heer
Gretchen Whitmer’s win in Michigan primary shows the enduring power of mainstream Democrats.
December 7, 2012
Alec MacGillis
Rick Snyder, Michigan’s Reluctant Union-Buster
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