Unlike Mark Zuckerberg’s company, Google knows how to wield soft power to avoid estranging Democrats.
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Congress Returns With Health Care Bills at the Desk
There are lots of reasons why health care bills will get passed this fall. There are also lots of reasons why they won’t.
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Private Equity Tries to Protect Another Profit Center
The fight in Congress heats up over surprise medical billing, another abuse of the public driven by the private equity industry.
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The 40-Year War
William Barr’s long struggle against congressional oversight
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Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin: Understanding Some Key Demographic Differences
Dan Balz’s lengthy article in The Washington Post is a useful summary of the 2020 electoral map. He identifies four states as being key to the upcoming contest: Florida and, quite properly, the Rust-Belt trio of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Let me focus here on that trio of states and run down some of the […]
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The Wrong Way to Contrast With Trump on Trade
A new book tries to get progressives comfortable with the free-trade consensus. There’s a better solution.
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Why Presidential Campaigns Are Doling Out So Much Ice Cream
The promise and pitfalls of community-centered campaigns
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What If President Trump Truly Decompensated?
The answer is profoundly troubling.
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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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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 […]