It’s Not Trump’s Job to Be Informed, Is It? It’s Not Trump’s Job to Be Informed, Is It?
Welcome to the longest two weeks in human history.
Oct 20, 2020 / Tom Tomorrow
Trump Keeps Slinging Mud, but This Time It’s Not Sticking Trump Keeps Slinging Mud, but This Time It’s Not Sticking
Smear merchants like Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani are trying to peddle a sequel to the Clinton scandals of 2016—but they’ve lost their groove.
Oct 19, 2020 / Jeet Heer
Progressives Won’t Wait for Biden to Set the Course Progressives Won’t Wait for Biden to Set the Course
If Biden plans to fulfill his campaign trail promise that he’ll be the “most progressive president since FDR,” he’ll have to help lead the push for progressive policies.
Oct 19, 2020 / Robert L. Borosage
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
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
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