Joe Biden

Ginni Thomas is above the law

By John Stoehr / March 18, 2022 /

When elites are untouchable, democracy isn’t all that.  

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Democrats should make it clear to the public that voting against green energy is voting for an authoritarian imperialist

By Noah Berlatsky / March 18, 2022 /

Fretting about the price of gas is short-term thinking.

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Censored Chinese scholar: ‘new Iron Curtain’ will mark ‘life-and-death battle between those for and against western democracy.’ 

By John Stoehr / March 17, 2022 /

Will China turn its back on Russia?

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Do public opinion surveys mirror or manufacture political reality?

By Rod Graham / March 16, 2022 /

The anatomy of a pull poll.

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Americans alive today have no idea what they’re missing by refusing to work together

By John Stoehr / March 11, 2022 /

What the New Deal teaches us about democracy and freedom.

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Manchin and the GOP smear the poor to avoid helping them

By Noah Berlatsky / March 8, 2022 /

Cash payments lift kids out of poverty. To the rightwing, though, that can’t be. The poor are poor, because they deserve their poverty.

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Introducing trust-busting Joe

By John Stoehr / March 3, 2022 /

It’s been 40 years since a president demanded more competition.

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A Democrat says the quiet part out loud. The Republicans are democracy’s ‘domestic enemies’

By John Stoehr / February 28, 2022 /

The time for hardball is now.

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‘Do we want to live in a world where Putin calls the shots?’

By John Stoehr / February 16, 2022 /

Patriots say no. Rightwingers say maybe.

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To US oligarchs, majority views on taxing the rich count for little

By Noah Berlatsky / February 14, 2022 /

If we fail to restrain the corruption of moneyed elites, the United States may go further down a path that’s difficult to retrace.

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