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It’s Clear Who Harris’ Best VP Pick Would Be

Tweet Share Share Comment Back when an open convention was the preferred choice of many who wanted President Joe Biden to drop...

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Was the Problem Joe Biden's Record or Was It Just Joe Biden? | Opinion

President Joe Biden's abrupt Sunday announcement that he would abandon his re-election campaign instantly blew apart the dynamics of the 2024...

22.07.2024 3

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What Democrats Must Do Now That Biden Is Out

21.07.2024 1

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I’ve Seen Political Violence Destroy a Nation. There’s Only One Way to Stop It.

15.07.2024 3

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Trump Assassination Attempt: How We Got Here and What's Next | Opinion

In the aftermath of Saturday's dreadful assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, that...

15.07.2024 5

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It's the Polls, Stupid. Democrats Must Dump Joe Biden or Lose | Opinion

If last Thursday night's NATO press conference was the top of the mountain in terms of Joe Biden's lucidity and powers of persuasion, we might as well...

13.07.2024 7

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If Biden Loses the Election, a Lot of Democrats Will Go Down With Him

Tweet Share Share Comment As President Joe Biden’s embattled reelection campaign tries to regain its footing after a...

12.07.2024 30

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Democrats Can Dump President Joe Biden. Here's How | Opinion

Since his disastrous debate performance two weeks ago, President Joe Biden has done little to reassure political allies and voters that he is still...

08.07.2024 8

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No More Biden Time, Joe's Gotta Go

Well, so much for hoping that President Joe Biden would rise to the occasion. In last night's CNN debate he stumbled out onto the stage looking like...

30.06.2024 7

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Biden Must Drop Out. Here’s How Democrats Could Replace Him on the Ticket.

Tweet Share Share Comment Thursday night’s debate was, and I don’t say this lightly, a disaster without any conceivable...

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Where the Presidential Race Really Stands Before the Debate

Tweet Share Share Comment I’ve made no secret of the fact that I think President Joe Biden’s re-election bid is deeply...

27.06.2024 10

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Behold—the GOP War on Acronyms! Why Stunt Legislation to Ban DEI Will Fail

Apart from the fact that this bill has no chance of becoming law, it will also do nothing to address the problem it purports to solve.

18.06.2024 8

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Hunter Biden's Conviction Means Nothing

A Delaware jury today found President Biden's son Hunter guilty on three charges of lying on a federal firearm application. While this will surely...

11.06.2024 10

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Prosecuting Trump Is Different From Persecuting the Innocent

One accusation that you can never level at the contemporary Republican Party is "taking things in stride." Since former President Donald Trump's swift...

06.06.2024 10

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The Key to Going After Donald Trump Now That He’s Been Convicted

Tweet Share Share Comment After Donald Trump was swiftly convicted by a jury of his peers in the Stormy Daniels hush money case...

03.06.2024 40

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Yes, Trump's Conviction Should Make You Deliriously Happy

Well that was quick—former President Donald Trump was convicted Thursday on all 34 counts in the Stormy Daniels hush money trial. A lot of...

31.05.2024 7

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The Sun Belt Boom Is Over

Last week a "derecho" battered metropolitan Houston, causing fatalities and billions of dollars of damage, putting even more pressure on the state's...

24.05.2024 7

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Many Young Voters Have Turned on Biden. But a Different Group Just Might Rescue Him.

Tweet Share Share Comment As the already unbearable 2024 election drifts toward its conclusion, breath by raspy breath,...

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The Biden-Trump Debates Won't Move the Needle. Here's Why

The reality is that almost no one other than die-hard political junkies and people who get paid to write hot takes afterwards wants to see these...

16.05.2024 20

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Cannon Misfires: Trump Appointee Saves Her Old Boss

Yesterday, Judge Aileen Cannon delayed former President Donald Trump's classified documents trial indefinitely while she works out some difficult...

09.05.2024 60

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A Right-Wing Supreme Court Could Make Biden a Dictator by Mistake

In a sequence of events that many people somehow found surprising, the conservative members of the rogue, corrupt, illegitimate Supreme Court...

01.05.2024 8

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It's Not Too Late for the GOP to Dump Trump. Here's How

Despite the hard-right Supreme Court's apparent willingness to entertain former President Donald Trump's fanciful claims of total presidential...

26.04.2024 30

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Today’s Campus Protest Crackdowns Are All Too Familiar to Me

Tweet Share Share Comment As the student-run, pro-Palestinian protest encampments at Columbia University spread across the...

25.04.2024 20

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The End of the Electoral College Is Finally in Sight

Earlier this week, Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) decided not to veto an obscure law called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPV), which...

19.04.2024 20

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No Labels’ Dream Candidate Was Right in Front of Its Face the Whole Time

Tweet Share Share Comment With the announcement Thursday that it would not sponsor a ticket in the 2024 presidential election,...

09.04.2024 10

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Trump's Big Abortion Gamble Won't Save Him

Abortion bans are political losers for Republicans, which puts the man who made all this abortion-banning possible by stacking the Supreme Court with...

08.04.2024 8

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Biden Should Declare an Emergency at the Border—and Handle It Wildly Different Than Trump

Tweet Share Share Comment On March 9, 2021, in a move that was little noted outside of those who study immigration...

04.04.2024 6

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Democrats May Keep the Senate—With a Little GOP Help

The Republican primary voters of Ohio, in their infinite wisdom, selected a businessman named Bernie Moreno as their nominee to challenge incumbent...

27.03.2024 20

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The Dangers of a Second Trump Term Go Far Beyond the White House

Tweet Share Share Comment It is an overcast, unseasonably warm morning on Wednesday, Nov. 6, and the world has woken up in shock...

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The Republican National Committee May Become Trump's Cash Machine

This month, presumptive Republican nominee for president Donald Trump took over the Republican National Committee (RNC) and then days later liquidated...

19.03.2024 7

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Trump and Biden Should Both Be Terrified of the Third-Party Vote

Tweet Share Share Comment It is no longer particularly far-fetched to think that Donald Trump’s restoration is...

12.03.2024 10

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2024 Primaries: Well, That Was Pointless. Now We're Screwed

Well, that was perfectly pointless. For the first time since 2004, when George W. Bush was the incumbent Republican and Democrat John Kerry eliminated...

08.03.2024 20

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The Democratic Party May Be Stuck With Biden for Good

President Biden's brutal polling numbers against disgraced former President Trump have been causing major controversy inside the Democratic Party's...

28.02.2024 3

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Donald Trump Will End NATO and Make the World Unsafe for Democracy

It was buried in the news by Special Counsel Robert Hur's political hit job on President Joe Biden, but former President Donald Trump—the...

22.02.2024 9

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Three Comforting Lies Democrats Need to Stop Telling Themselves About November

Tweet Share Share Comment President Joe Biden is in trouble in this November’s election. This does not mean he is guaranteed...

20.02.2024 20

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Actually, Partisanship Is Good—When the Other Side Is Today's Insane GOP

As Americans slowly start tuning in to a re-match between President Biden and former President Donald Trump that few seem to desire but even fewer are...

13.02.2024 6

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On Immigration, Democrats Don't Even Know How to Compromise Right

By the end of this week, hopes for compromise legislation unveiled by Senate leaders on Monday around immigration and the southern border are highly...

07.02.2024 4

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D.C. Should Let Its Billionaire Sports Owner Extort Someone Else

Tweet Share Share Comment Washington, D.C.’s post-pandemic struggles are no secret. Last summer, the Washington Post’s Paul...

01.02.2024 10

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Biden Must Keep Defending Democracy Against GOP Hysteria

There's a new conventional wisdom taking shape that the Biden administration has been too focused on Jan. 6 and the defense of democracy as a 2024...

30.01.2024 10

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How Biden Can Beat Trump

Tweet Share Share Comment Now that he has conclusively won the New Hampshire primary, it looks far-fetched that Donald Trump’s...

24.01.2024 3

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Do People Want a Fascist States of America? Maybe So

There are a number of lessons to be learned from last week's Iowa Republican caucus, won by former President Donald Trump, including that defeated...

23.01.2024 3

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And the Winner of the Iowa Caucuses Will Be... Who Cares?

Is anyone paying attention to Monday's Iowa caucus? The feverish pitch of horse race polling, speculation and jockeying that usually precedes an Iowa...

15.01.2024 20

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Why 2024 Could Totally Rule!

If we're being totally honest, the possibilities for 2024 run the gamut between heartwarming victories for democracy and human rights to potentially...

30.12.2023 4

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Don't Assume the Supreme Court Will Side With Trump in Insurrection Fight

Now that the Colorado Supreme Court has used the 14th Amendment to bar former President Donald Trump from the state's primary and presidential ballot,...

20.12.2023 7

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There Is No Precedent for How Bad Biden’s Polls Are Right Now

Tweet Share Share Comment As President Joe Biden grows increasingly mystified by his unpopularity, he is also experiencing the...

20.12.2023 40

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The Limits of the Word “Genocide”

Tweet Share Share Comment Since Israel launched its military campaign against the Palestinian militant group Hamas after the...

13.12.2023 6

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The Ultimate Nightmare Scenario for Trump Supporters

In recent months, countless servers have been clogged with ruminations about how much trouble President Joe Biden is in, and how Democrats would be...

07.12.2023 2

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