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The Republican campaign to rifle through the people’s ballots to sustain the Big Lie is a frontal assault on democracy
We cannot afford to let it spread any further.
In fight over his agenda, Biden is leaning on the right people. The liberals are now the center. The moderates have to catch up
Looking at politics through the lens of regime change.
Our addiction to polling, myth of ‘liberal bias,’ Proud Boys as public enemy, Biden’s Great Society, plus John Stoehr’s week
The weekend edition of the Editorial Board.
Senate candidate JD Vance is describing how the Republicans have changed. Are we listening?
Set aside the old ways of thinking.
Joe Biden’s plan will transform America the way the Great Society did. Here’s 3 ways journalists fail to tell the story
As they did with President Lyndon Johnson’s agenda, the press corps should inform the electorate about the existential battle at hand.
Tired of conservatives accusing college professors of pushing their ‘liberal bias’? This is the slapback you’ve been waiting for
It is a fundamental misunderstanding of research and teaching.
To fight fascism, fight the people paying for it. That means raising taxes higher, much higher, on the very obscenely rich
They are preventing the people from flexing the sovereignty that would prevent them from continuing to extract wealth from the people.
Why isn’t the full force of the US government being brought down on the Proud Boys? Democracy and freedom demand it
The FBI has the means, but not the will.
Why we can’t quit polling
Our love of public opinion surveys and data science reflects an aspect of American politics that’s at least skewed, at most broken.
Vaccine holdouts are caving. Lesson for liberals? Respond to authoritarianism with force
They want to be told what to do.