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Ronald BrownsteinThe Atlantic |
No recent Democratic president has faced such fierce internal conflict over a foreign-policy issue. The Iranian attack on Israel has heightened the...
And why it could propel him to a second term The most succinct explanation for how Republicans expect Donald Trump to win in November may have come...
Health care may turn out to be a major winning issue for Democrats. Expanding access to health care has been a shared policy priority for Joe Biden...
No one is talking enough about one of the most important policy choices at stake in this election. A decision Donald Trump made in his first...
The ACLU’s game plan for protecting civil rights through a potential second Trump administration For the venerable American Civil Liberties Union,...
Letting go of the past may be the key to his future. As President Joe Biden prepares to deliver his State of the Union address tonight, his pathways...
The president still has time to improve his standing on the economy, but that time isn’t unlimited. Just since last November, the most closely...
The state’s GOP primary showed Donald Trump is dominant yet still vulnerable. The afternoon before Donald Trump’s blowout win in South...
The twist in this year’s South Carolina GOP primary For more than four decades, South Carolina has been the decisive contest in the Republican...
A new Chicago Council on Global Affairs study helps explain why. The long decline of the Republican Party’s internationalist wing may have reached a...
His agenda is driving more investment into communities left for scrap. President Joe Biden’s economic agenda is achieving one of his principal...
The former president and his aides are formulating plans to deport millions of migrants. Confrontations over immigration and border security are...
The final line of defense against his renomination is crumbling. If one word could sum up Nikki Haley’s ambivalent challenge to Donald Trump in the...
The result also offers him some warning signs. Donald Trump’s victory in the Iowa caucus was as dominant as expected, underscoring the exceedingly...
The caucus has lacked energy because Donald Trump’s shrinking field of rivals has never appeared to have the heart for making an all-out case...
His own voters may be collateral damage. Donald Trump’s renewed pledge on social media and in campaign rallies to repeal and replace the Affordable...
These efforts are indications of the pressure he and other GOP candidates would face to do so if elected. The Supreme Court’s upcoming decision...
Could this be the president's new strategy to win 2024? President Joe Biden and Democrats cannot win the debate over the economy without fundamentally...
Both strategies so far look insufficient to the challenge. The latest GOP presidential debate demonstrated again that Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley are...
In a second term, Trump would punish the cities and states that don’t support him. During his term in the White House, Donald Trump governed as a...
The space between red and blue states The best way to understand last week’s unusual debate between Governors Gavin Newsom of California and Ron...
The former president just revealed his plan to win a second term. A press release that President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign issued last week...
This week’s election showed that Republicans still haven’t solved their biggest problem from 2022. Democrats yesterday continued to perform better...
The future of green labor For President Joe Biden, this week’s settlement of the United Auto Workers strike against the Big Three domestic...
Trump is becoming more aggressive on immigration than ever before. As president, Donald Trump imposed an array of deeply divisive immigration...
Jim Jordan’s advance to the brink of the speakership extends the pattern that has played out within the GOP since Donald Trump became a national...
The initial reactions of Biden and Trump to the attack have produced exactly the kind of personal contrast that Biden supporters want to project....
The issue played a central role in blunting the widely anticipated red wave in last November’s midterm elections. A crucial new phase in the...
Kevin McCarthy’s demise continues a cycle among House Republicans that now traces back nearly half a century. The fall of House Speaker Kevin...
The administration had been hesitant to pursue this approach. President Joe Biden’s administration moved boldly yesterday to solve his most...
Unions fear that the auto industry is using the transition toward EVs to advance a second shift away from good-paying jobs. The United Automobile...
The Supreme Court could send the U.S. back to the 1950s. The struggle over the sweeping red-state drive to roll back civil rights and liberties has...