Tom Edsall’s most recent Times column claims, “We Aren’t Seeing White Support for Trump for What It Is.” The column is based heavily on a paper by political scientists Herbert Kitschelt and Philipp Rehm entitled, “Secular Partisan Realignment in the United States: The Socioeconomic Reconfiguration of White Partisan Support since the New Deal Era.” Edsall’s […]
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Understanding Trump’s White Working Class Support
Tom Edsall’s most recent Times column claims, “We Aren’t Seeing White Support for Trump for What It Is.” The column is based heavily on a paper by political scientists Herbert Kitschelt and Philipp Rehm entitled, “Secular Partisan Realignment in the United States: The Socioeconomic Reconfiguration of White Partisan Support since the New Deal Era.” Edsall’s […]
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The Tea Party–Trump Decade
The Republican electoral sweep of 2010 set up a decade of anti-democratic destructiveness culminating in Donald Trump. But the tide’s about to turn.
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The Brexit Leninists Are Tearing Up Britain’s Political Rulebook
Boris Johnson is shredding Britain’s unwritten conventions of parliamentary democracy—and he faces no real challenge.
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The Trump NLRB’s Anti-Labor Day
The National Labor Relations Board is not just changing rules but reversing long-standing precedents.
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DSCC Raked In Cash From Health Care and Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Before Endorsing Hickenlooper
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is intervening in Colorado’s crowded Senate primary to boost a candidate who opposes Medicare for All and the Green New Deal.
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The Worker’s Friend? Here’s How Trump Has Waged His War on Workers
A Labor Day look at the president’s continual attacks on America’s working men and women
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Hurricane Dorian Spares Puerto Rico, but Trump Does Not
The president unleashes a tweetstorm against the mayor of San Juan and anything else associated with the island except, of course, his own failed leadership.
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9 Ways to Stay Sane During the Primaries
Get involved. It’s going to take a grassroots movement of Americans to take our country back.
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David Koch’s Heirs Will Enjoy the Biggest Tax Loophole Nobody Talks About
It’s called step-up in basis, and it wipes away all capital gains in his $50 billion estate.
