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the money game
May 16, 2022
How Red States Are Trying to Snuff Out Green Investing Numerous states are launching a messy preemptive strike against so-called ESG efforts by the financial sector to move away from fossil fuels.
By Jake Bittle
No, We Can’t Get a National Divorce There’s growing sentiment for secession, particularly on the right. It should be rejected.
By Ed Kilgore
How Biden Could Bypass Republican State Governments No one since Johnson and Nixon has tried to direct federal dollars specifically to cities and counties in hostile states, but Biden may consider it.
By Ed Kilgore
coronavirus
Apr. 23, 2020
The Coronavirus Is Spreading Into Trump Country Any temptation Trump has to make easing of coronavirus precautions a divisive campaign issue may be frustrated by COVID-19’s spread.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Apr. 22, 2020
Will Trump Allow the Coronavirus to Ravage Blue America? The urban–nonurban divide characterizes the coronavirus response and economic crises to a dangerous degree.
By Ed Kilgore
coronavirus
Mar. 20, 2020
Red America May Blame Blue America for Coronavirus Right now, much of nonmetropolitan America feels relatively immune to COVID-19 fears. But if that changes, metro America, not Trump, could be blamed.
By Ed Kilgore
partisanship
Nov. 14, 2018
Maybe It’s Time for America to Split Up The country is hopelessly split. So why not make it official and break up?
By Sasha Issenberg
Red State Democrats Can Do Better Than Joe Manchin Manchin’s Kavanaugh vote and recent strides by red state progressives raise questions about the wisdom of Dems settling for conservative candidates.
By Sarah Jones
Red States Defend Free Speech — With Laws Punishing Campus Protest These First Amendment-loving states have also passed laws punishing companies that refuse to do business with Israel for political reasons!
By Eric Levitz
Red-State Teachers Just Scored a Victory That Could Transform the GOP Last night in Kentucky, teachers showed GOP lawmakers that supporting education cuts could cost them — in a Republican primary.
By Eric Levitz
Oklahoma Teachers Win a Partial Victory Now teachers have forced GOP politicians into raising pay in a second state. But the fight continues in other states, spilling over into elections.
By Ed Kilgore
Republicans Are Playing With a Stacked Deck in the Senate The GOP’s advantage in dominating small states is giving it a permanent advantage in controlling the U.S. Senate, even in “bad” years for the party.
By Ed Kilgore
the urbanist
Apr. 18, 2017
The Urban-Rural Divide Matters More Than Red Versus Blue State The more metropolitan liberals resist, protest, and strike, the more foreign they will become to the rest of the country.
By Justin Davidson
Red-State Democratic Senators Don’t Seem Scared to Act Like Democrats A potential Gorsuch filibuster will be a key test. But early indications are that few are breaking party ranks.
By Ed Kilgore
Why There Probably Won’t Be a ‘Tea Party of the Left’ Progressives rightly want to keep Democrats from working with Trump. But primary challenges in red states aren’t a promising strategy.
By Ed Kilgore