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Reconciliation Is Available to End Debt Limit Hostage-Taking
With the GOP likely to take over the House, Democrats can use the lame duck to effectively eliminate the debt limit and the leverage Republicans would wield.
Posted inPolitics
Republicans Have a Disease Called Donald Trump
Sane parties change their tune when they lose repeatedly. The GOP is not sane.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Inflation, Supply Chain Woes, and Elaine Chao’s Culpability
Democrats in general and Mayor Pete in particular should have highlighted the disastrous hands-off approach of Trump’s transportation secretary.
Posted inPolitics
How Democrats Mishandled Crime
The most effective issue for Republicans in this midterm is a result of Democratic elites failing to understand what their diverse base of working-class voters wants.
Posted inPodcasts
Stealing America Back From the Right
Jamelle Bouie talks about the political utility of national symbols and the better parts of American history.
Posted inPolitics
Can the Hotel Workers’ Union Save the Democrats?
In Nevada, Arizona, and Pennsylvania, the union has been talking to voters about progressive fixes to inflation for months, when Democrats didn’t know what to say.
Posted inPolitics
The Craziest House Race of 2022
In Orange County, California, Republican Michelle Steel is painting her opponent as a tool of China with unhinged red-baiting attacks.
Posted inPolitics
The Missing Factor in the Election Story: Turnout
It’s the variable that matters most, but you won’t see it in most of the punditry predicting Democratic losses.
Posted inAmerica and the World
How Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders Helped Lula Win
A democratic America took the air out of the Brazilian far right.
