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the democratic party
Dec. 8, 2023
No, Democrats Are Not Driving America’s Culture Wars The party remains more focused on progressive economics than “wokeness.”
By Eric Levitz
Do Democrats Need to Get Less ‘Globalist?’ A new book argues that Democrats must embrace economic nationalism to win back the working class.
By Eric Levitz
uaw strike
Sept. 27, 2023
Biden’s UAW Rally Exposes the Bankruptcy of Trump’s Populism Biden walking the picket line while Trump addresses a nonunion auto plant perfectly illustrates their parties’ distinct approaches to labor issues.
By Eric Levitz
vision 2024
Aug. 19, 2023
The Rise of the Young, Liberal, Nonwhite Republican ? A significant minority of GOP voters are not what you would expect.
By Eric Levitz
The 28 Types of Progressives Or why it’s important not to conflate questions of value with questions of fact.
By Eric Levitz
The Case Against Supply-Side Liberalism Is Weak Critics of the ideology have grossly misrepresented what its proponents actually claim.
By Eric Levitz
The ‘AOC Left’ Has Achieved Plenty There is nothing progressive about denying progress.
By Eric Levitz
It Makes Sense That Bidenomics Is Unpopular (So Far) For all its virtues, the president’s economic agenda has yet to increase living standards for most Americans.
By Eric Levitz
Millennials Will Not Age Into Voting Like Boomers Older millennials are getting more conservative as they age, but the generation’s politics are still distinctly left-wing.
By Eric Levitz
debt ceiling hostage crisis
May 28, 2023
By Eric Levitz
electoral autopsies
May 19, 2023
The Return of the Emerging Democratic Majority? In the most highly contested midterm races, millennials and zoomers turned out in even higher numbers than they did in 2018.
By Eric Levitz
early and often
Feb. 10, 2023
Liberals Shouldn’t Fear Ron DeSantis The Florida governor may be popular for now. But his support for slashing Social Security and banning abortion will catch up with him eventually.
By Eric Levitz
the big picture
Feb. 1, 2023
The End of ‘Zombie Neoliberalism’? There is burgeoning, bipartisan support for big government.
By Eric Levitz
early and often
Jan. 27, 2023
The Data-Driven Strategy Behind Democrats’ State-Level Success in 2022 The president’s party almost always loses state-level power in midterm elections. Here’s how Democrats bucked that trend last year.
By Eric Levitz
early and often
Jan. 16, 2023
The GOP Is More Dependent Than Ever on Democratic Dysfunction As the Republican base has grown more blue-collar, the party’s agenda has remained plutocratic.
By Eric Levitz
house arrest
Jan. 6, 2023
This Is Not What Democracy Looks Like Contrary to the claims of conservative pundits, the GOP’s mutiny against McCarthy is not a sign of the party’s democratic vitality.
By Eric Levitz
early and often
Nov. 29, 2022
The NYC Media Might Have Cost Democrats the House After New York outlets hyped rising crime, counties in the NYC media market voted more Republican than their immediate neighbors.
By Eric Levitz
early and often
Nov. 25, 2022
One Worrying Sign for Democrats in the Midterm Results The gubernatorial elections in Georgia and Ohio suggest that a right-wing Republican could win moderate voters in 2024 merely by not being Trump.
By Eric Levitz
the midterms
Nov. 10, 2022
David Shor’s (Premature) Autopsy of the 2022 Midterm Elections Democrats won the midterm by persuading independents, not mobilizing their base, according to the Democratic data guru.
By Eric Levitz
the midterms
Nov. 7, 2022
For Democrats This Midterm, Winning Isn’t Everything The long-term survival of social safety-net programs and blue-state abortion rights may depend on Democrats losing by a little instead of a lot.
By Eric Levitz
early and often
Oct. 26, 2022
The Media Did Not Trick Voters Into Disliking Inflation It is possible for a voter to worry more about rising prices than creeping authoritarianism without ever watching CNN.
By Eric Levitz
the big picture
Oct. 19, 2022
How the Diploma Divide Is Remaking American Politics College graduates and blue-collar workers have distinct cultural values. Myriad changes in American society are increasing the importance of that gap.
By Eric Levitz
early and often
July 16, 2022
Democrats’ Problems Go Beyond Joe Manchin The West Virginia senator is more a consequence than the cause of the party’s failures.
By Ross Barkan
political science
Feb. 23, 2022
The Urban-Rural Culture War Has Gone Global Throughout the developed world, the city and the country have developed sharply divergent social values.
By Eric Levitz
Ibram X. Kendi Does Not Run the Democratic Party So why do some centrist pundits pretend otherwise?
By Eric Levitz
the pandemic
Feb. 10, 2022
The Democratic Party’s ‘Mask Off’ Moment Voters are sick of the pandemic and public-health mandates. Democrats can’t stop the former, so they’re ending the latter.
By Eric Levitz
Democrats Are Doing Weirdly Well in Redistricting There’s now an outside chance that the House map might end up slightly biased in the Democrats ’ favor.
By Eric Levitz
joe manchin
Dec. 21, 2021
The Democratic Agenda Dies of Delusions Manchin’s views are fallacious and classist. But they’ve also been crystal clear, and the Democratic leadership willfully ignored them.
By Eric Levitz
2020 hindsight
Dec. 16, 2021
Why Democrats Are Losing Ground With Hispanic Voters A new report sheds light on one of 2021’s defining political questions.
By Eric Levitz
the republican party
Nov. 30, 2021
Only Republicans Can Stop the Republicans Now The biggest obstacle to the GOP’s political dominance is now the party’s own dearth of ideological discipline.
By Eric Levitz
critical race theory
Nov. 8, 2021
When Keeping It ‘Woke’ Gets Racist, Liberals Should Say So Some of the things that conservatives have dubbed “critical race theory” aren’t worth defending.
By Eric Levitz
The GOP Got Away With All of It Glenn Youngkin’s win in Virginia suggests that Republicans will pay no sustained price for abetting Trump’s assault on democracy.
By Eric Levitz
political science
Sept. 29, 2021
Is America Too Rich for Class Politics? A new theory for why affluent Democrats vote against their economic interests.
By Eric Levitz
the inside game
July 25, 2021
What Joe Biden’s 1988 White House Rivals Think of Him Now More than three decades have passed. Some things have changed — and many haven’t.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
The Delusions of the Radical Centrist Why Michael Lind’s iconoclastic brand of populist politics fails to convince.
By Eric Levitz
Democrats’ Odds of Keeping the House Are Slimming Fast With redistricting reform stalled in Congress, and Democratic turnout weak in special elections, the GOP is cruising to House control.
By Eric Levitz
racial justice
May 2, 2021
Avoiding White Backlash Is a Racial-Justice Issue Democrats can’t make major legislative progress on racial equality without winning more Senate seats. To do that, they must win more white votes.
By Eric Levitz
the democratic party
Mar. 9, 2021
Biden’s COVID-Relief Bill Is a Big F**king Deal The Democratic Party has internalized the left’s critique of its Obama-era approach to fiscal policy, child welfare, and legislative strategy.
By Eric Levitz
vision 2020
Mar. 11, 2020
Joe Biden Is a Tool (But Progressives Can Use Him) Biden’s (likely) nomination is cause for disappointment but not despair.
By Eric Levitz
interesting times
Nov. 2, 2018
Andrew Sullivan: Can the Republic Strike Back? Trump’s anti-democratic impulses have shaped American public life for two years now. Election Day is a chance to shift that dynamic.
By Andrew Sullivan
America Already Has a Centrist Party. It’s Called the Democrats. Are you part of the “Exhausted Majority” that opposes both Donald Trump and far-left activists? Good news: there’s a party for you.
By Eric Levitz
One Year After Trump’s Victory, the Democrats Aren’t in Disarray The first 12 months of the Trump presidency have been better for Democrats than most would have ever imagined.
By Eric Levitz
The Dysfunction of the Democratic Party, Distilled in One Tweet It’s just one tweet. But, boy, does this tweet fail on multiple levels — and in revealing ways.
By Jesse Singal
The Problem With the Democratic Party in One Milquetoast Tweet The bill that would unravel Barack Obama’s signature law and throw millions off of their insurance needs to be…revised?
By Eric Levitz
What Bernie Sanders Gets Right About Identity Politics Identity-based critiques of economic reductionism have become tools for obscuring the divergent interests of rich and poor Democrats.
By Eric Levitz