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November 10, 2022
Michael Tomasky
“We Live More on the Knife’s Edge”: John Sides on the Midterms
The political scientist and leading elections expert explains how Donald Trump has actually—wait for it—strengthened democracy.
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October 28, 2021
Osita Nwanevu
Doing Popular Things Won’t Save the Democratic Party
Proponents of “popularism” believe they have a plan to rescue the party’s electoral hopes, but they may have arrived too late.
June 26, 2020
Mugambi Jouet
The Trump Cult Is Loyal to an Ideology, Not the Man
A rise in extreme polarization culminated in Trump—and likely won’t be vanquished by Biden.
May 19, 2020
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Osita Nwanevu
We’re Not Polarized Enough
Ezra Klein’s flawed diagnosis of the divisions in American politics
February 27, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
Bernie’s Boring Path to Victory
After all the talk of revolution and expanding the electorate, what if Sanders simply wins the same way an utterly conventional Democrat would?
February 1, 2019
Colm Quinn
Could Unions Help Defeat ISIS?
A study looking at two very similar Tunisian towns, one with union activity and one without, has yielded an interesting idea.
April 7, 2015
Danny Vinik
Is It Inequality or Mobility? Neither Economists nor GOP Candidates Can Decide.
December 1, 2014
Danny Vinik
The Economic Forecast for 2016 Favors Hillary Clinton
October 26, 2014
John B. Judis
Are Political Beliefs Predetermined at Birth?
A weird new social science tries to explain our polarized politics
September 15, 2014
Alice Robb
Women Pay More Attention to Politics When Their Senator Is a Woman
And men significantly outperform women on tests of political knowledge
March 22, 2013
Timothy Noah
Political Science in the Crosshairs
Republicans defund academic studies whose lessons they don't want to learn
April 29, 1991
Irving Howe
Contested Terrain
March 10, 1952
Richard Hofstadter
The No Man’s Land of American History
November 13, 1949
Dwight MacDonald
Conservatism Revisited
May 13, 1946
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Jackson and the Intellectuals
May 21, 1931
William Faulkner
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