Community disinvestment, lack of economic opportunity, and rampant misinformation were a few of the chronic ills that kept Black Philadelphians from the polls.
Election 2024
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The Real Reason For Latino Trumpers
Republicans won the Rio Grande Valley for the first time since 1912. How?
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Fed Chair Powell Enlisted in Failed Bid to Undercut Elizabeth Warren
Wall Street’s effort to keep Warren from becoming ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee did not succeed.
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How to Hear a Fascist
Trump was supposed to be in decline, losing it. He lost it all the way to the White House.
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Trump Voters Are About to Learn He Meant What He Said
His first administration was a farce. The second will be a tragedy.
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Resistance 2.0
Both the circumstances and tactics will necessarily be different from the anti-Trump resistance of 2017, and there is little room for error.
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Who Will Lead the Democratic Party?
Today on TAP: After Kamala Harris’s defeat, the DNC chair should be a party-builder in the spirit of Howard Dean, whose service from 2005 to 2009 paved the way for Obama.
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Too Many Americans See the Democrats as a Hostile Elite
Even though that perception is partly the creation of right-wing media, the Democrats surely need to hone their identity.
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Kamala Fell to the Same Cabal That Destroyed University Presidents
The billionaire class used the Gaza siege to purge leftists, and even left populism. Caught up in the wake were the cautious elites.