Just since last November, the most closely watched measure of consumer confidence about the economy has soared by about 25 percent. That’s among the most rapid improvements recorded…
Read more Closing This Gap May Be Biden’s Key to a Second TermFor more than four decades, South Carolina has been the decisive contest in the Republican presidential primaries—the state most likely to anoint the GOP’s eventual nominee. On Saturday,…
Read more Could South Carolina Change Everything?A press release that President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign issued last week offered a revealing window into his advisers’ thinking about how he might overcome widespread discontent with…
Read more How Biden Might RecoverThe fall of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy today demonstrated again that the one sin that cannot be forgiven in the modern Republican Party is being seen as failing…
Read more The Only Sin That Republicans Can’t ForgiveThe recent history of the Iowa Republican caucus offers the candidates chasing former President Donald Trump one big reason for optimism. But that history also presents them with…
Read more Trump Is Beatable in IowaFor most Americans, voting for a member of Congress is one of their simplest civic duties. Every two years, they pick the candidate they like best—usually the same…
Read more A Radical Idea for Fixing CongressBy almost any historic yardstick, President Joe Biden is beginning the reelection campaign he formally announced today in a vulnerable position. His job-approval rating has consistently come in…
Read more Joe Biden Isn’t Popular. That Might Not Matter in 2024.The escalating confrontation between the parties over the federal budget rests on a fundamental paradox: The Republican majority in the House of Representatives is now more likely than…
Read more How Working-Class White Voters Became the GOP’s FoundationSomehow, in a few short days, gas stoves have gone from a thing that some people cook with to, depending on your politics, either a child-poisoning death machine…
Read more Are Gas Stoves Doomed?Cases have surged in China since it dropped its zero-COVID policy in December, and the latest models now suggest that at least 1 million people may die as…
Read more I’m Sorry, but This COVID Policy Is RidiculousIn a 2005 episode of The Office, Michael Scott, the office manager, requires his employees to choose an upside-down index card from a tray and place it on…
Read more The Wrong Way to Do Politics at the OfficeThe list of investigative priorities for the House Judiciary Committee that the incoming chairperson, Jim Jordan, sent to the Justice Department earlier this month reads like an assignment…
Read more The House GOP’s Investigation ConundrumIn the early 2000s, the Japanese racehorse Haru Urara became something of an international celebrity. This was not because of her prowess on the track. Just the opposite:…
Read more Democrats Keep Falling for ‘Superstar Losers’This has become the double-negative election. Most Americans consistently say in polls that they believe that President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats have mismanaged crime, the border, and,…
Read more The Double-Negative ElectionStarting in 2008, a widely circulated conspiracy theory was that Barack Obama was not actually born in America. Strivers on the political right scrounged around to try to…
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