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JD Vance has no idea what 2028 voters actually want

I regret to inform you that we are now one week into the 2028 presidential election cycle. This is the stage where various factions try to shape the conventional wisdom to support their particular agenda. For Democrats, that's a difficult process, because they so wildly overperformed in the ...

Are Democratic Socialists a white political movement? It seems so

Some interesting numbers: New York's 13th Congressional District, covering northern Manhattan and part of the Bronx, is 52% Hispanic, 23% Black and only 14% white. Yet in June's Democratic primary, voters dumped five-term Rep. Adriano Espaillat, head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, for ...

How Trump helped the GOP to lose

Thank you, Mr. President. That's what courteous Democrats might say to Donald Trump for the immense (and I'm sure involuntary) assistance he lent to their historic sweep in last week's midterm elections. After all, right up until Election Day, Trump did all he could to amplify the ...

We’ve got your oil — Now come and get it

My dad sent me a vat of olive oil from the village in Greece recently -- by which I mean to say that he shipped it months ago, paying 30 euros to have it stacked on a slow boat from Piraeus by way of a company named after a Greek god. I had not asked for the olive oil and didn't really want ...

Notes on a Starry Night

"Bluenami!" a friend said of the remarkable turnover of both chambers of Congress from Republican to Democratic control. Another way to look at the midterms Tuesday is that the voters' verdict found Donald Trump guilty of attempted murder of our democracy. The jury of citizens rescued ...

The Senate’s Consequential Class of ’26

The headline item from Tuesday's elections is that Democrats wiped out Republicans in the House and the Senate. Congratulations. But do our newly minted senators, with their terms ending in January 2033, realize that they will be the cohort of legislators who face the exhaustion of Social ...