Opinion

The GOP‘s recent shellacking in New Jersey and Virginia was not a failure of effort. Republicans had the ground game. They invested in turnout operations. They knocked on doors, built lists, and localized their messaging. Tactically, the party did the work. Strategically, however, it didn’t focus on the right voters. In the first major election […]

Zohran Mamdani claimed victory in New York City by taking to the stage to herald a new era for NYC: “a shining city for all.” His speech led with invoking Eugene Debs, the most prominent American socialist politician of the last century, before anyone knew of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) or Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). […]

There is a very thin line between irresponsible rhetoric and mutiny, and six sitting members of Congress came perilously close to crossing it earlier this week. A mutiny doesn’t need to resemble the dramatic Mutiny on the Bounty; it can just as easily take the form of a video urging U.S. military personnel to defy […]

The September jobs report, released a month and a half late thanks to the government shutdown, contained some positive news that the Trump administration has reason to brag about. But it also revealed weakness in the economy, further reflected in fresh polling that the White House should take as a warning. Defying economic predictions, employers […]

To deck the halls, or not to deck the halls, that is the question. In recent years, discussions of whether or not one should decorate for Christmas before Thanksgiving have intensified. This is thanks to the internet, which allows us a peek into homes and lives that would otherwise remain unknown. Both sides in this debate […]