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Wes Moore
February 28, 2026
Jason Linkins
How to Dismantle a Concentration Camp
Trump’s drive to build a network of detention centers is being met with some robust public resistance.
February 26, 2026
Perry Bacon
Pathetic: Maryland Democrats Have Surrendered on Gerrymandering
Maryland could easily have added one Democratic House district, but the state Senate president—a Democrat—wouldn’t let it happen.
February 16, 2026
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Blames Popular Black Democrat for Potomac River Sewage Spill
Trump’s National Park Service is supposed to be working with DC Water to fix the issue, so of course he’s blaming someone else entirely.
October 15, 2025
Liza Featherstone
The Blue-State Governors Who’ve Gone Weak on Climate Policy
They make a big show of standing up to Trump. But what about standing up for the planet?
June 9, 2025
J. Dylan Sandifer
American Politics Only Pretends to Work
The most underappreciated obstacle to political change is the dreary doom loop of institutional process that only bolsters a broken status quo.
August 21, 2024
Grace Segers
The Convention That Almost Wasn’t
Just a month ago, Democrats were facing all but certain electoral doom. But with Harris at the top of the ticket, the DNC has been a raucous, energetic affair.
April 14, 2024
Matt Ford
The Shady Right-Wing Threats to Keep Biden Off Some State Ballots
Conservatives got their way when the Supreme Court ruled against Trump’s disqualification, but two red-state secretaries of state seem to be bent on retaliation anyway.
November 3, 2022
Walter Shapiro
Wes Moore Is the Most Overlooked Candidate in the Midterms
He’s almost sure to win his campaign in Maryland, which would make him just the third Black man elected governor in the U.S. and set him on a path as a rising star in the Democratic Party.
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