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The Senate Impeachment trial begins with McConnell and Trump continuing to savage our democracy and the cause of democracy and liberty everywhere in the world. With Iowa looming, Biden leads, Bernie stumbles.
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Over the past 30 years, the Democratic Party has been the most successful center-left party in the developed world. It is time it started acting like it, and begin to far more purposefully lead the fight against rising illiberalism here and abroad.
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Among the most significant political developments of the Trump era is the dramatic shift of under 45 year old voters towards the Democrats. From 2000 to 2016, D margin w/under 45s was 6 points. In 2018, it was 25.
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Simon offers the idea of creating a new government department focused solely on job creation and skill acquisition.
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As the Senate takes up Impeachment, the House should launch a formal security review of the President's foreign policy, helping create a better...
It is critical that Congress doesn't wash its hand of trade policy now that the USMCA debate is over, because the President's larger,...
In his weekly take on the 2020 election, Simon takes a deep dive into recent polling on Impeachment and the President's handling of Iran, and...
The President’s repeated denials that Russia intervened on his behalf in 2016 have suppressed the normal societal immune response which...
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Senators are going to find it harder to acquit the President than they expect.
Why? 1) He's guilty. 2) His aides keep getting arrested, going to jail. 3) Nothing innocent about Trump. 4) Lev Parnas.
In a new essay, Dr. Robert J. Shapiro argues that paying for Medicare for All would break the US tax system – and crush most Americans in the process.
Trump’s trade deal with China offers no details on the structural reforms that were the entire point of the trade war. Instead, all the US receives is the promise of agricultural exports that are barely above the pre-2017 trend and could very easily not take place.
In country after country over the past year the President has taken steps to align US foreign policy w/Russia's. It has been a dramatic, little understood development, and has left America a weakened power, Russia a rising one. Congress must step in.
America’s great experiment with protectionism hasn’t revived manufacturing or reduced the trade deficit, but instead has destroyed over 300,000 jobs and cost the average household $1,000.
New digital threats will require US political parties to start seeing themselves as front line actors in our national effort to protect our elections and discourse. Some thoughts on how the parties can re-imagine themselves to meet these challenges head on.
