Politics / August 21, 2026 The Supreme Court put the final nail in the coffin this summer. Now we have to raise democracy from the dead. Ad Policy Demonstrators protest outside the White House, on March 12, 1965. (Warren K Leffler / PhotoQuest / Getty Images) I can afford no sentimentality about America. For hundreds…
Yves here. I must confess to a complete lack of awareness of the severity of class bias in legislative positions. That may be in part because many candidates make much of coming from a working class family, which creates the illusion of they themselves being still in that stratum of society. In fact, they themselves…
The Front Burner / August 18, 2026 Too often, Democrats reinforce Republicans’ lie that the language of racial justice is the problem—instead of the injustices the language is trying to name. Ad Policy Participants from a coalition of voting rights groups march over the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on May 16, 2026,…
The Palmetto State will let primary voters nominate Graham’s successor. Maine, on the other hand, is letting a party convention pick Graham Platner’s replacement. Ad Policy South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, right, joined by US Senator Lindsey Graham, speaks to reporters on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, in Columbia, SC. (Michelle Liu / AP) The sudden death of…
W hen he first campaigned for president a decade ago, Donald Trump pointed to his singular achievement in public service: a skating rink. A primetime video at Trump’s nominating convention recounted the legend of Wollman Rink, on the edge of Central Park, as if it were the beaches of Normandy — how Trump had grown…
