Political scientists Lee Drutman and Mark Copelovitch say that the next time Democrats have a trifecta in Washington they must push proportional representation and other major reforms to America’s political system.

The 2028 Democratic primary is more wide open than any in recent memory, according to two experts on presidential nominations.

Political scientists Jake Grumbach and Hakeem Jefferson explain why the Republicans’ elimination of majority-Black districts in the South is such an erosion of democracy.

Journalist David Dayen says California’s progressive wing and the party establishment both have struggled to coalesce around a gubernatorial candidate.

Author Kimberlé Crenshaw says that the Supreme Court keeps issuing rules for a post-racial America that the justices know doesn’t exist.

Maine reporter Alex-Seitz Wald says Governor Janet Mills ran a terrible campaign that ensured Graham Platner’s likely Democratic primary victory in Maine.

Author Adam Johnson’s new book shows how the media’s coverage after October 7, 2023 downplayed the brutality of Israel’s months of bombing in Gaza.

Columbia University professor Elizabeth Saunders says any deal with Iran that Trump reaches now will fall short of America’s initial goals for the war.

Author Ibram Kendi says the rise of “great replacement theory” is driving many problems both in the United States and abroad.

Policy expert Lindsay Owens says Americans are much more concerned about greedy corporations than overly complicated housing regulations.

Journalist Ishaan Thahoor says Iran may have emerged from this war in a stronger position than when it started.

Author A.J. Bauer says that over the last eight decades, conservatives have both created a massive alternative media ecosystem and successfully undermined traditional news outlets.

Former Warren and Biden aide Bharat Ramamurti praises new proposals to raise taxes on the wealthy, but is more skeptical of tax cut plans being rolled out by likely 2028 candidates.

Foreign affairs journalist Ishaan Tharoor argues that Trump has no good options in Iran and that America’s and Israel’s interests are increasingly diverging in this war.

Political scientist Jake Grumbach says it’s not surprising that Democrats are doing well electorally even though the party has not moved rightward in the way that some centrist pundits want.

Author Justin Gest says that appealing to voters’ sense of belonging and identity is essential and can’t be done with economic policy alone.

Foreign policy expert Matt Duss says there is no easy way for Trump to declare victory and end the war in Iran.

Historian Thomas Zimmer says that American democracy is still in a bad place but that Trump has been slowed on a number of fronts.

California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer understands the growing opposition to billionaires like himself, but argues that his record shows that he cares about Americans who aren’t wealthy.

Author Jason Stanley says that Trump’s fascism helps explain his decisions to invade Iran and Venezuela.