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Gretchen Whitmer
November 30, 2022
Daniel Strauss
Here’s Michiganders’ Pitch on Why They Should Be First in 2024
Democrats will decide this week how to shake up their presidential primary calendar. They should elevate a large, diverse battleground state. Hint: rhymes with “wish again.”
November 10, 2022
Timothy Noah
The Democrats Lost Some Working-Class Support in the Midterms
The slippage is among nonwhite voters. But don’t despair: Union households, after stumbling in 2016, got back their Democratic mojo.
October 7, 2022
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Daniel Strauss
Is Gretchen Whitmer the Democrats’ Next Presidential Nominee?
The Republicans’ MAGA lunacy is making reelection a breeze for the Michigan governor. And if Biden opts out—or loses—in 2024, she may be the party’s next standard-bearer.
May 18, 2022
Abdul El-Sayed
Michigan Is Becoming the Ground Zero of Abortion Battles
Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Attorney General Dana Nessel may be the most important bulwark protecting Michiganders should Roe fall.
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
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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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