The Biden Campaign Has a Trump-Fatigue Problem (nymag.com)
Joe Biden’s campaign is facing a strategic dilemma. Since the president’s job-approval ratings have been consistently low, his path to reelection depends on making 2024 a comparative choice between himself and Donald Trump, his scary, extremist predecessor. That task is becoming more urgent as evidence emerges that a sizable...
Why Won’t Rich Republicans Loan Money to Upstanding Businessman Donald Trump? (nymag.com)
Convicted Felon Trump Tells Putin to Keep Wall Street Journal Reporter Hostage Through Election (nymag.com)
Paul Krugman Is Right About the Economy, and the Polls Are Wrong (nymag.com)
Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated Media (nymag.com)
The Most Endangered Democrat in America (nymag.com)
No, America Doesn’t Need a MAGA ‘Day of Christian Visibility’ (nymag.com)
Pity the poor unseen majority who shove their religion in our faces every day. Won’t someone think of them?
How Popular Does Biden Need to Be to Beat Trump? Not Very. (nymag.com)
Given the current state of partisan polarization, it’s unlikely Biden can get majority job approval next year even with the most fortunate set of circumstances. But the good news for him is that he probably doesn’t have to. Job-approval ratings are crucial indicators in a normal presidential reelection cycle that is...
How to Criminalize a Protest (nymag.com)
In Atlanta, the George Floyd demonstrators are being prosecuted as gang members. The activists of today could be next....
Zellnor Myrie’s Challenge Is a Moment of Reckoning for Eric Adams (nymag.com)
Republicans Are Acting Like 2024 Is Their Last Campaign (nymag.com)
What Happens When Ads Generate Themselves? (nymag.com)
Conservative Christian Affection for Fascists Predates Trump (nymag.com)
The agony of Wehner, Gerson, former Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore, and others over the intense loyalty most of their fellow conservative Evangelicals have displayed to Donald Trump, even as his record and rhetoric have grown more heathenish, is understandable. But they shouldn’t be all that surprised. In the mid-20th...