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How the Democratic Movement to Dump Biden Went Bust With a vibe fitting for a funeral, lawmakers in Washington decide by default to keep their nominee.
Biden Resistance Appears to Be Waning in Congress A sizable number of Democratic lawmakers have expressed concerns about Biden’s ability to beat Trump. But will they do anything?
politics
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Read Biden’s I’m-Not-Going-Anywhere Letter to Hill Democrats Biden sent a defiant message to congressional Democrats, looking to stave off any calls for him to step down from party members returning from break.
the inside game
July 4, 2024
What Kamala World Is Thinking As they wait for a sign, the vice-president’s allies are furious at the talk of her being passed over.
early and often
June 25, 2024
Jamaal Bowman’s Loss Is the Start of a New Era Pro-Israel forces now have a blueprint to driving critics out of Congress.
early and often
June 21, 2024
Do Liberals Have It All Wrong About How to Beat Trump? Backed by Reid Hoffman, the centrist polling firm Blueprint picks a big fight in the Democratic Party: It needs to move right to win.
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May 13, 2024
The Most Endangered Democrat in America Jamaal Bowman might lose his job over Israel.
early and often
Apr. 4, 2024
Can New Jersey’s Dying Political Machine Save One Menendez? The senator’s son in Congress has a tough primary challenge.
the city politic
Feb. 28, 2024
Jerry Nadler Would Like 10 More Years After rumors he might step aside, New York’s oldest representative says he could keep going past 80 — like some presidential candidates.
early and often
Feb. 13, 2024
Inside the Three-Way Race to Fill California’s Senate Seat Adam Schiff, Katie Porter, and Barbara Lee each represent a distinct way forward for liberals. But the decision might have already been made for them.
the inside game
Feb. 1, 2024
Bernie Sanders’s Pressure Campaign on Democrats Over Israel He’s getting louder about America’s role in Israel’s war, pushing his own party to act before it’s too late.
early and often
Jan. 30, 2024
The Governor’s Wife Has Decided to Be a Senator The First Lady of New Jersey is leveraging her husband’s power to lock up the Democratic nomination for Senate. She appears unstoppable.
the national interest
Jan. 3, 2024
Are Young People Actually Progressive? The mistaken assumptions of Democrats have put the party in peril.
early and often
Dec. 7, 2023
The Monumental Special Election to Fill the George Santos Seat He might be out of Congress, but the high drama over his successor is only beginning.
israel-hamas war
Nov. 30, 2023
The Pro-Palestinian Left Is Booming Far from being doomed, groups like DSA are being energized in a way unseen since the racial-justice protests of 2020.
early and often
Aug. 8, 2023
Can Mondaire Jones Make Nice With the Democratic Establishment? He’s running to get back into Congress and away from some of his left-wing associations.
J. B. Pritzker Is a New Democratic Power Broker The governor of Illinois is rich and powerful, making him both an ally to Joe Biden and his own center of influence.
the national interest
July 28, 2023
The Democrats Can’t Wave Away Their Hunter Biden Problem How the party can clean up the Supreme Court and address the president’s son’s ethics scandals.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Inside Job How a conspiracy-spewing literal Kennedy posing as a populist outsider jolted the Democratic Party.
early and often
May 11, 2023
Dianne Feinstein’s Return Is a Ghoulish Spectacle The senator has become a symbol of deep political rot.
Will Democrats Fight for Trans People? The party can’t cede an important civil-rights issue to conservatives.
the inside game
Apr. 14, 2023
How Democrats Started Winning in Wisconsin Again After years of being crushed by Republicans, liberals have clawed their way back into power with more cash, better organizing, and abortion politics.
windy city heat
Mar. 29, 2023
The Fiercest Fight in Democratic Politics Is in Chicago A left-wing former teacher and a centrist former schools boss may only agree that the other would ruin the city as mayor.
How Biden Learned to Love the Debt-Ceiling Crisis He has turned a chronic political headache into a winning issue.
windy city heat
Mar. 1, 2023
How Lori Lightfoot Lost Chicago The city threw out a Democratic mayor for the first time in decades. Yet it may not be a loss for the left.
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Jan. 4, 2023
No, Congress Doesn’t Need More ‘Independents’ Like Sinema The senator’s superficial rebranding does not make Congress more representative of the country.
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Dec. 22, 2022
The Fall of the Progressive Boy King Sean McElwee formed a lucrative alliance with SBF. Then his patron went bust and he suffered his own scandal.
the national interest
Dec. 9, 2022
Kyrsten Sinema Is Playing Chicken Declaring herself an independent is a way to force the Democratic Party into embracing her.
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Nov. 21, 2022
Democrats Have Some Solid Options If Biden Doesn’t Run in 2024 The Democratic Party’s bench of potentially successful presidential candidates is suddenly looking pretty deep.
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Nov. 15, 2022
New York Does Not Have a Democratic Party The midterms show the statewide organization is worse than ineffective; it is practically nonexistent when it comes to electing candidates.
the inside game
Nov. 4, 2022
Why Democrats Are Suddenly Very Nervous Obama, both Clintons, and even Biden try to rescue their party from a potential rout.
early and often
Sept. 30, 2022
Left-Wing Challengers Have a Hard Road Ahead After shock victories in 2018 and 2020, progressive challengers are having a harder time pulling off AOC-like upsets.
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Aug. 23, 2022
The 4 Big Races to Watch in New York The Democratic primaries will test the strength of the left, and a special election may determine how abortion rights will play in November.
early and often
Aug. 3, 2022
Shilling for Thrills In Lis Smith’s new memoir, principles are for purists.
sticker shock
July 5, 2022
Why Don’t Democrats Care About the Housing Emergency? Once the domain of big cities, the surging cost of rent across the country is driving record inflation.
Thanks, Nancy She read a poem.
early and often
June 6, 2022
Chesa Boudin and the Limits of San Francisco Liberalism If Chesa Boudin is recalled, it will be because his city has never been its left-wing caricature.
texas school shooting
May 28, 2022
Will the ‘School-Shooting Generation’ Change Politics? Congress failed to act after Sandy Hook, and it feels just as paralyzed on gun violence today. But there are reasons for renewed hope.
Democrats Quietly Search for an Alternative to Biden in 2024 Inside the 2024 soul-searching that’s happening in every corner of the Democratic Party — except the White House.
early and often
May 16, 2022
The Democratic Party Is Extremely Unpopular Right Now New poll numbers do not bode well for the party’s midterms chances.
early and often
May 5, 2022
Is Kathy Hochul Losing Her Party? Democrats are starting to open up about their problems with the governor, who promised to be the un-Cuomo.
the national interest
Apr. 25, 2022
Political Correctness Is Losing How the Democratic Party fought back against illiberalism.
What Democrats Hope to Win by Losing They still want to try to move forward on voting-rights legislation, but it’s hard to see past the brick wall of the filibuster.
Democrats Release Their Hostages and Give Biden a Win It was ugly, but the House finally passed an infrastructure bill and advanced the president’s prized social-spending bonanza.
moderate democrats
Sept. 22, 2021
$3.5 Trillion Is Not a Lot of Money Joe Biden’s spending bill isn’t extreme, no matter what moderate Democrats say.
What Is Kyrsten Sinema’s Deal? The senator from Arizona puzzles and irks her fellow Democrats in equal measure.
How on Earth Does Cuomo Survive This? The sexual-harassment report wasn’t a bombshell; it was a nuclear blast. And yet.
democratic party
July 20, 2021
Why Is It So Hard for Moderate Dems to ‘Do Popular Things’? Centrist resistance to popular tax hikes and drug reforms threatens to derail Biden’s agenda.
the economy
July 19, 2021
How the New Child Tax Credit Is Already Changing Lives “There’s very few good news stories, and this is one.”
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