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The Republican Party
conservatism
Sept. 29, 2023
Scott, Haley, and the Radicalization of the ‘Moderate’ Republican The South Carolina politicians combine the plutocratic priorities of Paul Ryan with the lunatic jingoism of Donald Trump.
uaw strike
Sept. 27, 2023
Biden’s UAW Rally Exposes the Bankruptcy of Trump’s Populism Biden walking the picket line while Trump addresses a nonunion auto plant perfectly illustrates their parties’ distinct approaches to labor issues.
The Nerd Trying to Turn the GOP Populist Oren Cass’s quest to make Republicans heed the interests of their working-class base.
vision 2024
Aug. 19, 2023
The Rise of the Young, Liberal, Nonwhite Republican ? A significant minority of GOP voters are not what you would expect.
trump indicment
Aug. 3, 2023
Conservatives: Punishing Coup Leaders Is Authoritarian Does holding a presidential candidate accountable for trying to end American democracy imperil American democracy?
early and often
July 14, 2023
GOP Election Deniers Don’t Bother With Fraud Claims Anymore By denying the legitimacy of a close election loss based on vague claims of unfairness, Republicans make anything other than a landslide inconclusive.
Millennials Will Not Age Into Voting Like Boomers Older millennials are getting more conservative as they age, but the generation’s politics are still distinctly left-wing.
debt ceiling hostage crisis
May 28, 2023
electoral autopsies
May 19, 2023
The Return of the Emerging Democratic Majority? In the most highly contested midterm races, millennials and zoomers turned out in even higher numbers than they did in 2018.
the debt ceiling
May 17, 2023
The GOP’s Work-Requirement Scam The policy’s true purpose is to deny aid to hardworking Americans. And Joe Biden appears to be playing along.
early and often
Feb. 19, 2023
Michigan GOP Picks Election-Denying Demon Hunter As New Chair After a historic wipeout in the midterms, Michigan Republicans are tripling down on rightward expansion.
early and often
Feb. 8, 2023
The GOP’s Heckles Were a Gift to Biden’s Reelection Campaign Republicans aired a primetime advertisement for their own extremity.
The Hecklers Have Won: The Polite State of the Union Is Dead Marjorie Taylor Greene and other vocal Biden detractors turned it into something like a rowdy parliamentary session. Expect that to continue.
America’s Labor Shortages Are Good, Actually The upside of longer lines and faltering customer service.
early and often
Feb. 2, 2023
the big picture
Feb. 1, 2023
The End of ‘Zombie Neoliberalism’? There is burgeoning, bipartisan support for big government.
early and often
Jan. 16, 2023
The GOP Is More Dependent Than Ever on Democratic Dysfunction As the Republican base has grown more blue-collar, the party’s agenda has remained plutocratic.
house arrest
Jan. 7, 2023
Kevin McCarthy’s Tarnished Triumph He finally got the Speakership he wanted, but at what cost?
house arrest
Jan. 5, 2023
A House Without Rules Makes for C-Span Gone Wild Insults about public drinking? Crazy video-game memes? Marjorie Taylor Greene acting normal? It’s chaos on the Hill.
conservatism
Dec. 6, 2022
Why the GOP Will Lose Its War on ‘Woke Wall Street’ Republicans can’t accept that they dislike modern capitalism, so they’re blaming “ESG” instead.
early and often
Nov. 29, 2022
The NYC Media Might Have Cost Democrats the House After New York outlets hyped rising crime, counties in the NYC media market voted more Republican than their immediate neighbors.
early and often
Nov. 25, 2022
One Worrying Sign for Democrats in the Midterm Results The gubernatorial elections in Georgia and Ohio suggest that a right-wing Republican could win moderate voters in 2024 merely by not being Trump.
early and often
Nov. 10, 2022
How Zeldin’s Loss Is Making New York’s Republican Party Ambitious Again “The lesson we are all taking from this is, Wow, we could really pull this off .”
the midterms
Nov. 10, 2022
David Shor’s (Premature) Autopsy of the 2022 Midterm Elections Democrats won the midterm by persuading independents, not mobilizing their base, according to the Democratic data guru.
the midterms
Nov. 7, 2022
For Democrats This Midterm, Winning Isn’t Everything The long-term survival of social safety-net programs and blue-state abortion rights may depend on Democrats losing by a little instead of a lot.
the inside game
Nov. 3, 2022
The Most Important Senate Race Is Also the Most Ignored While most of the chatter is about other races, Nevada might actually decide control of the chamber.
early and often
Oct. 26, 2022
The Media Did Not Trick Voters Into Disliking Inflation It is possible for a voter to worry more about rising prices than creeping authoritarianism without ever watching CNN.
early and often
Aug. 8, 2022
The GOP Is the Party of Insulin-Gouging In their quest for zero-sum victories — and Democratic defeats — Republicans are incapable of tackling popular issues that would benefit them.
Boris Johnson’s Downfall Should Make Americans Jealous A parliamentary system such as the U.K.’s would be far more resistant to toxic figures like Trump and toxic ideas like rescinding abortion rights.
the republican party
Mar. 18, 2022
Beware Bill Barr His new book shows we have as much to fear from him as Donald Trump.
russia sanctions
Mar. 9, 2022
The Pain and Potential Gain of Biden’s Russian Oil Ban The move will deal a blow to Putin’s regime but impose a new burden on U.S. energy consumers.
‘Pro-Worker Conservatives’ Are Just Union Busters in Disguise In Marco Rubio’s new plan, the GOP’s overtures to the working class have reached their logical end.
conservatism
Feb. 3, 2022
conservatism
Dec. 30, 2021
Why The View Is Struggling to Find a New Token Conservative The show wants a Republican cohost who represents the views of the GOP base and is not an illiberal conspiracist. Does such a person exist?
Democrats Are Doing Weirdly Well in Redistricting There’s now an outside chance that the House map might end up slightly biased in the Democrats ’ favor.
The Authoritarian Right’s 1877 Project As the GOP undermines Black political rights in the present, some right-wing intellectuals are rationalizing Black disenfranchisement in the past.
the republican party
Nov. 30, 2021
Only Republicans Can Stop the Republicans Now The biggest obstacle to the GOP’s political dominance is now the party’s own dearth of ideological discipline.
the republican party
Nov. 24, 2021
Is the GOP’s Policy Agenda Hidden or Nonexistent? For a party that may soon have full control of government, its ambitions remain remarkably unclear.
The GOP Got Away With All of It Glenn Youngkin’s win in Virginia suggests that Republicans will pay no sustained price for abetting Trump’s assault on democracy.
republicans
Oct. 26, 2021
A Short History of Conservative Trolling On the laughing emptiness at the center of the Republican Party.
The Delusions of the Radical Centrist Why Michael Lind’s iconoclastic brand of populist politics fails to convince.
conservatism
June 2, 2021
infrastructure weak
May 24, 2021
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Negotiations Are Ready to Die No progress has been made on the fundamental obstacles to a deal. Democrats should cut bait posthaste.
conservatism
May 24, 2021
Law-and-Order Conservatives Call on Biden to Defund the Tax Police The “populist” right is mobilizing against Joe Biden’s plot to prevent the superrich from shirking their tax obligations.
conservatism
Apr. 30, 2021
Why the GOP Is Ideologically Lost Conservatives can’t reconcile their dual commitments to liberal capitalism and moral traditionalism.
conservatism
Apr. 22, 2021
GOP Stands Up to ‘Cancel Culture’ by Criminalizing Dissent Republicans believe that corporations opposing conservative causes undermines civil liberties, but governments criminalizing protest does not.
the moral minority
Apr. 1, 2021
The GOP (Rightly) Fears America’s Churchless Majority As the American public grows historically secular, the Christian right is trying to take democracy down with it.
The Right Would Rather Debate Kids’ Books Than Biden’s Bills As Democrats ready a major expansion of Obamacare and child welfare, GOP lawmakers are whining about Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potato Head.
the republican party
Mar. 3, 2021
The GOP’s Establishment Is More Populist Than Its Trumpists House Republicans are more staunchly pro-Trump — and anti-minimum-wage hikes – than Mitch McConnell is.
the republican party
Feb. 10, 2021
Capitol Riot Took Toll on GOP Approval, Registrations Nearly 140,000 Republican voters quit the party in January, while Democrats opened up a double-digit advantage in approval.
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