Republicans should be concerned about Gen Z voting patterns
In 2020, Biden had some of the strongest Gen Z support of any recent Democratic candidate.
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A recent Gallup poll shows people shifting toward the Republican Party
Republicans haven’t held a quarterly advantage this large since 1995.
On the reliability of forecasts
Whether economic, meteorological or political.
On U.S. ‘anocracy’ and the possibility of a coming civil war
An anocracy is a form of government that is neither a full democracy nor a full dictatorship, but has elements of both.
Agreeing with Trump on one thing: the truth is coming out
Trump’s reaction to President Joe Biden’s most direct criticism yet is as predictable as it it fantastical.
Some sad thoughts on January 6
Everything President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris said this morning about the January 6 insurrections falls into the category of true-but-not-new.
Two-term president? It’s not the historical precedent
If you had to guess, of the 45 men who have been president of the United States, how many of them would you say served two and exactly two full terms, then retired?
Robert Reich explains our current economic situation in six minutes
In a video, the former labor secretary illustrates — with pictures and captions — his analysis of modern U.S. politico-economic history.
Those protesting loudest about a stolen election are working to steal the next election
The kinds of changes in voting laws and procedures in Trumpian-Republican-controlled states will, if they become law, make it easier to steal the next election.
Even if every case of supposed election fraud were true, it wouldn’t have been enough to change the outcome of the 2020 election
I would like to live long enough to witness Donald Trump acknowledging that he lost the 2020 election fair and square, because then I would live forever.
What would happen if blue states stopped paying for red states?
A recent Rockefeller Institute study makes clear how much money flows out of Democratic-leaning states into Republican-leaning ones.
How two legal thinkers came around to supporting Supreme Court expansion
I’ve never previously advocated for the expansion of the Supreme Court, but my thinking has been heading in that direction for a while and for obvious reasons, especially after the Garland case.
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s modest gun-control proposal
What if private citizens were empowered to enforce gun laws?
Why I’m plenty worried about Trump in 2024
A new article in the Atlantic makes the case that “Donald Trump’s GOP is much better positioned to subvert the next election.”
The U.S. appears to be getting less democratic. But there’s a fix.
The loser of the national popular vote has been elected president five times in American history — but two of those times were in the 21st century.
What one legal observer saw in the arguments before the Supreme Court about abortion this week
Dalia Lithwick’s story for Slate ran under the headline: “SCOTUS Will Gaslight Us Until the End.”
Trump’s companies made a lot of money while he was in office
Like all government officials, Trump had to sign a disclosure of the money that came to him through his public job, and how he spent the money.
No, there is not a meta-story of Biden’s first year
Not everything is clearly on the right or wrong track.
The world’s democracies are backsliding — including the United States
A report found that the number of countries undergoing “democratic backsliding” over the past decade is at its highest point ever.
Americans’ economic outlook pretty much totally depends on their political party
Surveys of consumer sentiment tend to fluctuate based on which party is in power.
