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“Ronald Reagan Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”: Why It’s High Time Liberals Stop...
Earlier this week, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, along with a gaggle of bored reporters and some boldfaced names in the progressive movement, unveiled a “Progressive Agenda to Combat Income...
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“Progressive Frenemies”: It’s Always Wise To Seek The Truth In Our Opponents’...
You probably think there is a big struggle over the Democratic Party’s soul and the meaning of progressivism. After all, that’s what the media talk about incessantly, often with a lot of help from the...
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“How Dems Can Peel Off GOP Voters”: The Birth Of The Left-Wing Wedge Issue
Here’s a little datum that may have slid by you: Gallup has just found that on social issues, the country is now equally split between liberals and conservatives. The question was: “Thinking about...
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“GOP Bad Faith Legal Mischief”: Democrats Have Every Reason To Save...
Sometime this month, possibly as early as Monday morning, the Supreme Court will issue its ruling in King v. Burwell. If the Court ignores both the text and purpose of the Affordable Care Act, and...
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“Why Joe Biden Should Run”: It Can Only Make The Democratic Party Better
On the night of October 11, 2012, Barack Obama loped across the tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base, looking as if he were trying hard not to grin. It was a change of mood; eight days earlier, he had done...
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“The Same Priorities She’s Emphasizing Now”: What Hillary Said About Paid...
Following Hillary Clinton’s first major campaign speech on Saturday, purveyors of conventional wisdom have assured us again that she is tacking toward the left to deflect her challengers and mollify...
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“Democrats Being Democrats”: Adopting Ideas That Work And Rejecting Ideas...
On Friday, House Democrats shocked almost everyone by rejecting key provisions needed to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an agreement the White House wants but much of the party doesn’t. On...
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“Reclaiming The Turf”: On Our Own Terms, Running On Issues That Have...
I’m growing increasingly weary of the kind of political analysis exemplified most recently by Dana Milbank. He takes a look at some recent polling that suggests more people are identifying themselves...
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“A Palpable Authenticity”: The Non-Clinton Alternative For Democrats
Is Bernie Sanders the political reincarnation of Eugene McCarthy? I doubt it, but let’s hope he makes the Democratic presidential race interesting. I don’t know if front-runner Hillary Clinton shares...
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“Trading Symbolism For Substance”: An Issue That Is The Bedrock Of Civil...
Last week Democrats in the House started attaching an amendment to appropriation bills curtailing the display of Confederate flags on graves in federal cemeteries and the sale of the Confederate flag...
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“A Stark Difference”: Republicans Fear Their Activist Base. Democrats Don’t
We’ve gotten so used to Republican infighting over the last few years that it would have been easy to forget that historically it’s the Democrats who have been the most consumed by internecine...
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“What It Says About The Republican Base”: There Is No Liberal Donald Trump...
Talking about Donald Trump can be an exhausting and pointless exercise: no sooner does he say or do one outrageous thing than he follows it up with another (the latest being an appalling and viciously...
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“No, Hillary Clinton Is Not Spiraling Downward”: Clinton Cast As Lyndon...
There’s no question which is the more interesting and dynamic primary campaign right now, which inevitably leads reporters covering the other one to search for something new to write about. And in a...
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“The Outcome On The Democratic Side Is Notable”: In An Unusual Development,...
This morning, Sen. Barbara Mikulski announced that she will be voting in favor of the Iran nuclear deal, making her the 34th supporter. That means that a move to override any veto of the bill opposing...
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“Democrats And Black Voters”: To Win The Support Of People Of Color, You Have...
It has been pretty well established by now that a Democratic candidate can’t win the presidential nomination (much less a general election) without the support of African Americans. Due to that fact,...
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“Dems Won’t Be Boehner’s Cavalry”: Unlikely To Save House Speaker John...
House Speaker John Boehner could face a leadership challenge this fall, especially if he cuts a deal with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and her Democrats to circumvent or end a government...
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“Caring About The Political Fortunes Of The Causes”: If Bernie Sanders Wins,...
In modern electoral politics, moderate and centrist Democrats are well-known for browbeating leftists with the lesser-evil argument. Democrats might not be particularly concerned about, say, child...
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“Dems, Don’t Freak Out About Rubio Just Yet”: Let’s Take A Look At His...
So in the past week or so, it seems that people have decided that Marco Rubio is going to be the GOP nominee. What people, you ask? Oh, you know—the kind of people a person like me means when he says...
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“Our Current Distemper”: “Asymmetric Polarization” Emanating From The...
As we head towards what will probably be another fiscal crisis in December, perhaps managed by a caretaker Speaker of the House, coinciding with the frenzy of a presidential nominating contest in which...
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“News From Iowa’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner”: It Was The Crowd That Actually...
I watched the Democratic presidential candidates give their speeches last night at Iowa’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner. And I have to say that not much news was made. They all gave pretty familiar stump...
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