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Can Down-Ballot Races Lift Biden to Victory in 2024?

When you have a presidential candidate who is struggling to generate enthusiasm in the party base, it’s natural to look for some external...

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Can Down-Ballot Races Lift Biden to Victory in 2024?

When you have a presidential candidate who is struggling to generate enthusiasm in the party base, it’s natural to look for some external...

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Passing Ukraine Aid Doesn’t Make Mike Johnson a Bipartisan Hero

As House Speaker Mike Johnson basked in gushing bipartisan praise for his successful stewardship of a foreign-aid package that included crucial aid to...

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Democracy Doesn’t Need Independent Candidates Like RFK Jr.

There’s a certain snob appeal associated with self-proclaimed political independence from the two major parties. Independents often think of...

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Democracy Doesn’t Need Independent Candidates Like RFK Jr.

There’s a certain snob appeal associated with self-proclaimed political independence from the two major parties. Independents often think of...

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Trump Is Ready to Flood Courts With Election Fraud Claims

People are understandably anxious about Donald Trump repeating some of his more notorious stunts from 2020 after a possible 2024 election loss. These...

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Trump vs. Biden Polls: How Will the Hush-Money Trial Play?

After months of speculation on whether Donald Trump would actually go to court on felony criminal charges before facing voters in November, his...

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Trump vs. Biden Polls: How Will the Hush-Money Trial Play?

After months of speculation on whether Donald Trump would actually go to court on felony criminal charges before facing voters in November, his...

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This Year’s Democratic Convention Won’t Be a Replay of 1968

When the Democratic National Committee chose Chicago as the site of the party’s 2024 national convention a year ago, no one knew incumbent...

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This Year’s Democratic Convention Won’t Be a Replay of 1968

When the Democratic National Committee chose Chicago as the site of the party’s 2024 national convention a year ago, no one knew incumbent...

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The Mayorkas Impeachment Trial Was a Joke

There’s nothing surprising about the disdain with which congressional Republicans hold the Biden administration’s border policies or their...

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The ‘Uniparty’ Delusion Shared by MTG and RFK Jr.

Partisan polarization has been steadily growing in the U.S. since roughly the 1960s. Ironically, during this time, the complaint that the two parties...

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The ‘Uniparty’ Delusion Shared by MTG and RFK Jr.

Partisan polarization has been steadily growing in the U.S. since roughly the 1960s. Ironically, during this time, the complaint that the two parties...

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Murder Rates Are Dropping Despite GOP ‘Crime Wave’ Rhetoric

To hear the latest version of Donald Trump’s “American carnage” narrative of a country lost without him, you would think law-abiding citizens...

17.04.2024 7

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Johnson’s Foreign-Aid Plan Relies on Democrats Saving Him

It’s been obvious from the moment Mike Johnson took the Speaker’s gavel that he would not be able to count on the small and shrinking Republican...

17.04.2024 6

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Johnson’s Foreign-Aid Plan Relies on Democrats Saving Him Repeatedly

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Did Trump Really Consider Making RFK Jr. His VP Pick?

In many respects, it was a ho-hum development on Truth Social when Donald Trump posted a video of himself rambling about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last...

16.04.2024 4

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Trump and Johnson Promote Redundant Ban on Noncitizen Voting

In a joint press conference Friday at Mar-a-Lago that seemed designed to give some high-life MAGA protection to the embattled Speaker of the House,...

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Why Trump and Mike Johnson Are Promoting a Redundant Ban on Noncitizen Voting

In a joint press conference Friday at Mar-a-Lago that seemed designed to give some high-life MAGA protection to the embattled Speaker of the House,...

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Trump Boots Anti-Abortion Extremists From His VP Shortlist

There has been much debate about whether Democrats can succeed in making abortion policy — where they have a big public-opinion advantage — a...

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The Best Way to Protect Abortion Is by State Constitution

The shocking decision by the Arizona Supreme Court to resuscitate an 1864 law banning virtually all abortions and criminalizing abortion providers set...

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The Best Way to Protect Abortion Rights Is by State Constitution

The shocking decision by the Arizona Supreme Court to resuscitate an 1864 law banning virtually all abortions and criminalizing abortion providers set...

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Biden Has All But Caught Up With Trump in Polls

Joe Biden is continuing his snail-like progress toward a dead heat with Donald Trump in polling this week. The RealClearPolitics polling averages for...

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Biden Has All But Caught Up With Trump in Polls

Joe Biden is continuing his snail-like progress toward a dead heat with Donald Trump in polling this week. The RealClearPolitics polling averages for...

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Ross Douthat Is Wrong About the Abortion Backlash

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat is a very smart man capable of deep insights into a broad array of public concerns. But in a column this week...

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Ross Douthat Is Wrong About What Caused a Powerful Pro-Abortion Backlash

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat is a very smart man capable of deep insights into a broad array of public concerns. But in a column this week...

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Will RFK Jr.’s Appeal Sputter Before November?

A lot of Democrats and perhaps even some Republicans were relieved when the nonpartisan No Labels organization decided against running a presidential...

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Will RFK Jr.’s Appeal Sputter Before November?

A lot of Democrats and perhaps even some Republicans were relieved when the nonpartisan No Labels organization decided against running a presidential...

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Polls Aside, New Research Shows the Parties Are Deadlocked

If you listen to a lot of the noise in this raucous election year, the two major parties are in a state of extreme volatility that could lead to...

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Arizona Republicans Rush to Dismantle an Abortion Ban

“Incrementalism” has been a standard feature of anti-abortion activism, both before and since the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade . While Roe...

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In a First, Arizona Republicans Rush to Dismantle a Total Abortion Ban

“Incrementalism” has been a standard feature of anti-abortion activism, both before and since the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade . While Roe...

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Rust Belt or Sun Belt? Biden Has to Choose Both.

In 2020, Joe Biden won four states by a margin of less than 2 percent of the vote: Georgia (0.23 percent), Arizona (0.30 percent), Wisconsin (0.63...

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Rust Belt or Sun Belt? Biden Has to Choose Both to Beat Trump.

In 2020, Joe Biden won four states by a margin of less than 2 percent of the vote: Georgia (0.23 percent), Arizona (0.30 percent), Wisconsin (0.63...

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Draconian Abortion Ruling Supercharges Arizona Elections

In the first twenty months after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade , eliminating any federal constitutional right to choose abortion, 16...

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Draconian Abortion Ruling Supercharges Arizona Elections

In the first twenty months after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade , eliminating any federal constitutional right to choose abortion, 16...

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Trump Tells Lindsey Graham, Anti-Abortion Activists to STFU Until He Wins

On Monday, Donald Trump gave the Republican Party and its longtime allies in the anti-abortion movement some marching orders. After flirting with...

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Trump’s Attempt to Take Abortion Off the Table Won’t Work

After veering this way and that and flirting with support for a national 15-week abortion ban (and before that, a 16-week ban), presumptive Republican...

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Trump’s Attempt to Take Abortion Off the Table Won’t Work

After veering this way and that and flirting with support for a national 15-week abortion ban (and before that, a 16-week ban), presumptive Republican...

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The Senate, House, and White House Could All Change Hands in November

With the two major parties matched pretty evenly, it’s not too surprising that margin of control in the House and Senate (at present three seats in...

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A Triple Flip of Senate, House, and White House Could Happen

With the two major parties matched pretty evenly, it’s not too surprising that margin of control in the House and Senate (at present three seats in...

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Trump vs. Biden Polls: Will Old Folks Save Joe?

There has been a lot of chatter during the early phases of the 2024 presidential contest about Joe Biden’s struggles to secure support from the...

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Trump vs. Biden Polls: Will Old Folks Save Joe?

There has been a lot of chatter during the early phases of the 2024 presidential contest about Joe Biden’s struggles to secure support from the...

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Trump’s Plan for Every Foreign-Policy Problem Is Himself

With public concerns over the proper U.S. posture toward Israel’s conduct of its war in Gaza rising daily, there’s naturally a lot of curiosity...

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Don’t Get Too Attached to Speaker Mike Johnson

Like his defenestrated predecessor, Kevin McCarthy, House Speaker Mike Johnson is caught in a perpetual squeeze between what’s necessary to keep the...

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Trump’s Plan for Every Foreign-Policy Problem Is Himself

With public concerns over the proper U.S. posture toward Israel’s conduct of its war in Gaza rising daily, there’s naturally a lot of curiosity...

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No Labels Is No Longer Planning a 2024 Ticket

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Nebraska Republicans May Take the One Electoral Vote Biden Needs Most

It’s a little-known fact that states are free to allocate their presidential electoral votes as they wish so long as they respect one-person,...

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No, We Don’t Need a MAGA ‘Day of Christian Visibility’

Donald Trump specifically, and transphobic conservatives generally, made much sport of the International Transgender Day of Visibility coinciding with...

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No, America Doesn’t Need a MAGA ‘Day of Christian Visibility’

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The Real Reason RFK Jr. Called Biden a Worse Threat Than Trump

Voters who consider “threats to democracy” a major issue in the 2024 presidential election generally come in two varieties. There are Democrats...

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