By Stephen Collinson, CNN, November 3, 2024 The tumultuous 2024 election is ending with a contrast that encapsulates America’s fateful choice on election eve. Ex-President Donald Trump is darkening what is already the most dystopian closing argument in modern American history and flinging new and baseless claims that Democrats are cheating. Vice President Kamala Harris,
The Editorial Board, The New York Times, September 30, 2024. The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. It is hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy to serve as president of the United States than
By Scot Lehigh, The Boston Globe, September 25, 2024. As the presidential campaign makes the fall turn into the home stretch, the focus is on folderol at the expense of the fundamental. Every homeowner knows that when it comes to preserving your home, it’s more important to repair the rot in your sills or the
By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, August 19,1924. On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris gave her first big economic policy speech as the Democratic presidential nominee. It was, of course, very different from the “economic” speech and news conferences Donald Trump has held in the past couple of weeks. For one thing, Harris actually outlined her economic proposals, rather than
By Charlie Savage, Jonathan Swan, and Maggie Haberman, The New York Times, June 18, 2024. Donald Trump and his closest allies are preparing a radical reshaping of American government if he regains the White House. Here are some of his plans for cracking down on immigration, directing the Justice Department to prosecute his adversaries, increasing presidential power, upending America’s economic policies, retreating militarily
By Chris Smith, Vanity Fair, May 7, 2024. In Wilmington, Joe Biden’s reelection team is tackling stubborn polls, Gaza protests, and third-party threats as it assembles a sophisticated machine to defeat Donald Trump. And the stakes couldn’t be higher: “We could lose the thing that matters most to me,” says campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon,
Donald Trump has disqualified himself through his conduct and his character,
By Adam Nagourney, New York Times, April 3, 2024 Simon Rosenberg was right about the congressional elections of 2022. All the conventional wisdom — the polls, the punditry, the fretting by fellow Democrats — revolved around the expectation of a big red wave and a Democratic wipeout. He disagreed. Democrats would surprise everyone, he said
By Scot Leigh, Boston Globe, March 20, 2024. The prospect of being hanged concentrates the mind wonderfully, Samuel Johnson once observed. If the great English wordsmith and wag had chosen “belatedly’’ as the operative adverb, why, he would have anticipated Mike Pence’s recent declaration that he won’t endorse Donald Trump for president in 2024. Loyal
Editorial, New York Times, January 15, 2024. Republicans who will gather to cast the first votes of the 2024 presidential primary season have one essential responsibility: to nominate a candidate who is fit to serve as president, one who will “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Donald Trump, who has proved
By Jose Pagliery, The Daily Beast, December 29, 2023 The countdown is on for Donald Trump’s D.C. trial in March. And while Trump has faced jail threats over his inability to abide by gag orders with his recent bank fraud trial in New York, the charges he’s facing for his attempts at overturning the 2020
By Kimberly Atkins Stohr, The Boston Globe, December 28, 2023. What can we learn from George Bailey in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’? Without leaders who encourage us to trust in each other, our nation — and our democracy — is in deep danger. As the most consequential election year in recent history looms, a scene
By Michael Podhorzer, the Guardian, December 1, 2023. Horserace polling can’t tell us anything new about who will win the electoral college – but the existence of an anti-Maga majority is clear Now that Thanksgiving has passed in America, and everyone’s Trumpy uncle is on his way back to his conservative state, we still have
By Oliver Darcy, CNN, November 15, 2023. “Not the odds, but the stakes.” Those are the six words that make up a mantra New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen has evangelized across the news industry over the last several months. With less than a year until the 2024 elections, Rosen has been imploring newsrooms
By Mike Lux and Celinda Lake, Mike Lux Media, May 12, 2023 TO: Interested Parties FROM: Mike Lux + Celinda Lake RE: Democrats Could Win a Trifecta in 2024 If we do the basic blocking and tackling of great field and GOTV work, and focus on executing an effective strategy for working-class voters, all the
By Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post Columnist, November 13, 2022. The midterm elections could have gone badly. Really badly. There were serious concerns that right-wing groups would resort to voter intimidation, violence or other antics at polling places. But none of that came to fruition. In fact, while threats to democracy remain, 2022 might be seen as the point
Opinion by Nicole Hemmer CNN– “Can’t we just lie to ourselves for a while?” Glenn Beck, the right-wing talk radio host, was half-joking when he made this suggestion the day after Tuesday’s elections, but he voiced a longing that a number of Republicans had after the midterms: a hope to linger with the visions of