How Did We Get Here? How Did We Get Here?
Three new books by prominent liberal intellectuals—Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson’s Let Them Eat Tweets, Robert B. Reich’s The System, and Robert P. Saldin and Steven M. Teles’s ...
Oct 19, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Nicholas Lemann
Sinking Presidency Sinking Presidency
The candidate’s yard sign?
Oct 17, 2020 / OppArt / Leonard Stokes
Progressive Kara Eastman Is Pulling Ahead in Omaha’s Bellwether Congressional District Progressive Kara Eastman Is Pulling Ahead in Omaha’s Bellwether Congressional District
A champion of economic, social, and racial justice could beat a Republican incumbent in eastern Nebraska.
Oct 17, 2020 / John Nichols
These Are the States to Focus on to Flip the Senate These Are the States to Focus on to Flip the Senate
Democratic challengers in Georgia and Texas have a great fighting chance, and they need more help than promising contenders in other states.
Oct 16, 2020 / Steve Phillips
Democrats Should Welcome More Trump Town Halls Democrats Should Welcome More Trump Town Halls
Angry, prickly, and paranoid, the president struggled to defend his record when challenged by a tough journalist and ordinary Americans.
Oct 16, 2020 / Jeet Heer
Trump Is Urging Republicans to Break the Law Trump Is Urging Republicans to Break the Law
He not only applauded the California GOP’s illegal use of mail-in ballot drop-boxes; he’s urging Republican officials elsewhere to do the same thing.
Oct 16, 2020 / Signal:Noise / Sasha Abramsky
A Calm, Cool, and Presidential Joe Biden Won the ‘Debate’ That Wasn’t A Calm, Cool, and Presidential Joe Biden Won the ‘Debate’ That Wasn’t
In stark contrast to Trump’s desperate bravado, Biden explained, “It is the presidential responsibility to lead.”
Oct 16, 2020 / John Nichols
Texas and the Long Tail of Voter Suppression Texas and the Long Tail of Voter Suppression
As the growing number of Black and Latinx voters threaten the GOP’s stranglehold on power, attempts to limit safe voting options during the pandemic reveal a deeper sickness in Tex...
Oct 16, 2020 / Michael Barajas and The Texas Observer
Donald Trump Is America’s First Conspiracist President Donald Trump Is America’s First Conspiracist President
His paranoid fantasies are for the masses, but they are propped up by plenty of elites.
Oct 16, 2020 / Steve Fraser