Matt Robison
Matt Robison covers public policy and governance for the Editorial Board. The host of Beyond Politics Podcast and Great Ideas Podcast, for WKXL in Concord, NH, he lives with his family in Amherst, Mass.
Don’t “chase shiny objects.”
Few appreciate the significance of executive branch agencies in our government, how badly former President Trump damaged them.
Any other answer is insane.
On covid, the Republicans are swiftboating Biden.
There’s a reason we never talk about these things out loud: the counterattacks and accusations seem devastating.
Our love of public opinion surveys and data science reflects an aspect of American politics that’s at least skewed, at most broken.
What’s killing us, literally, is a stunning lack of ideas.
That’s why the GOP hates it, writes Matt Robison