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Will Marshall, Opinion Contributor

Will Marshall, Opinion Contributor

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The Democrats’ choice: Polarize from the left or win the middle

That requires more than performative resistance to Trump.

05.06.2026 5

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Will Marshall, Opinion Contributor

As politics fragments, the worldwide center-left must rally

Governing parties that brought stability and coherence to electoral competition after World War II are imploding.

22.05.2026 10

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Will Marshall, Opinion Contributor

America at 250: Battling over national identity

The nation’s deep political fractures cast a pall on its 250th birthday party.

08.05.2026 20

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Will Marshall, Opinion Contributor

Cut better deals, but don’t shutter data centers

U.S. political leaders should reject a witless “yes or no” debate on data centers.

24.04.2026 20

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Will Marshall, Opinion Contributor

Trump pays the price for making America an unreliable ally

His reckless rhetorical overkill is making the transatlantic alliance collateral damage in operation Epic Fury.

10.04.2026 20

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Will Marshall, Opinion Contributor

Bashing billionaires isn’t helping progressives win the working class

Scapegoating billionaires is a political sideshow.

27.03.2026 20

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Will Marshall, Opinion Contributor

Both Trump and progressives are foggy on Iran

Democrats shouldn’t let antipathy to Trump blind them to the strategic and moral necessity of defanging the Islamic Republic.

13.03.2026 20

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Will Marshall, Opinion Contributor

The midterms aren't enough — Democrats must campaign for the White House

The strategic imperative for Democrats now is building a large and lasting majority that can defeat MAGA populism decisively.

13.02.2026 60

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Will Marshall, Opinion Contributor

Trump appeases Putin while invading US cities  

A decent president, if we had one, would stand up to blood-soaked tyrants like Putin rather than treating fellow Americans as enemies.   

23.01.2026 30

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Will Marshall, Opinion Contributor

The Green New Deal crashes to earth

It was a bold, if implausible, demand for a crash program to rid America of fossil fuels.

05.12.2025 20

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Will Marshall, Opinion Contributor

Reindustrialization is just central planning, MAGA-style 

Tariffs and reindustrialization won’t win the economic future.

17.10.2025 30

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Will Marshall, Opinion Contributor

How Democrats can get their economic mojo back

That starts by radically reorienting their economic priorities to help working Americans get ahead, not just get by.  

19.09.2025 30

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Will Marshall, Opinion Contributor

Trump is sinking, but Democrats aren’t rising — here’s why 

Rather than reckon with such grim realities, Democrats again are seeking refuge in the politics of evasion.

29.08.2025 30

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How Trump can capitalize on autocrats’ setbacks

The fearsome “Axis of Autocracies” bent on disrupting the U.S. led global order — China, Russia, Iran and North Korea — looks pretty brittle.  

11.07.2025 20

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Will Marshall, Opinion Contributor

Factory jobs aren’t the future working Americans want    

Democrats should offer working families a new deal that equips them to compete for the jobs that define America’s future, not its past. 

13.06.2025 30

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Will Marshall, Opinion Contributor

Economic populism from both parties fails working Americans  

Populism as practiced by Biden and Trump has foundered on the patronizing premise that working families want yesterday’s factory jobs back.

23.05.2025 30

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Will Marshall, Opinion Contributor

Flailing Democrats need to build coalitions, not primary their own members

For Democrats, the right answer to Trump’s reign of error isn’t to indulge in purity tests and fratricidal primary challenges.

25.04.2025 20

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Will Marshall, Opinion Contributor

Trump 2.0 is a runaway dump truck only voters can stop

President Trump is having a grand time playing chicken with the U.S. economy, risking our prosperity to force other countries to submit to his...

18.04.2025 20

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Will Marshall, Opinion Contributor