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Michigan, Ohio State, and Negative Partisanship

Friday Q&A: Apparently 2024 Started Already.

It’s time to stop paying attention to Donald Trump.

About Last Week …

Friday Q&A: How about them midterms...

It’s Weird that Neither Party Talked about Health Care … in a Pandemic

Friday Q&A: What's on your mind?

Obama’s Attack Works Because He Hits Republicans Where They Think They’re Strong

The Great American Political Reality Show™

Friday Q&A: The Midterms

A COBRA Story

What the public can teach pundits (and politicians) about saving democracy

Friday Q&A: What are you looking forward to?

Why “Inflation” Is Really about Housing—and What Democrats Need to Do About It

Friday Q&A: Your questions?

No Exceptions. Except for Herschel.

Friday Q&A: The Supreme Court is Back.

How the Rich and Powerful Game the Meritocracy.

Are Republicans giving up on Democracy?

Friday Q&A: The Midterms

Iran’s regime must be held accountable — by Iranians themselves.

Eboo Patel's Field Notes for Democracy

Friday Q&A: Your questions, answered.

Billionaires are weaponizing “nonprofits” to evade taxes and shape politics.

“The Pandemic is Over.” But, is it?

Saturday Q&A: New Labor

The Last Monarch.

9/11/22: The Reading List

Friday Q&A: Another dose

Biden isn’t Trump. Why do political journalists keep acting like he is?

9/4/22: The Reading List

Friday Q+A: More-A-Lago

The Biden Administration Keeps Burying the Lede.

What’d I miss?

We CAN do medium-sized things.

Putting the US-China Relationship in Context

Projecting Strength Abroad Isn’t Simply About Killing Terrorists. It’s About Standing Up to Despots, Too.

8/5/22: The Reading List

Friday Q&A: What's right with Kansas?

Climate policy IS “kitchen table” policy

The New Technology Giving Power to the People, Not Corporations

How AIPAC turned Israel into the most important issue of the Democratic primaries

7/31/22: The Reading List

Friday Q&A: Your questions?

Why are Democrats boosting MAGA candidates?

The pox on our house.

Tribal Sovereignty, Big Oil, & Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta with Mary Kathryn Nagle

7/24/22: The Reading List

Biden’s Covid Diagnosis and the GOP’s Endless Cynicism

Friday Q&A: Where do we go from here on the climate crisis?

Joe vs. Joe

Dapping despots hits different after an insurrection.

Fighting Inflation with Stephanie Kelton

Friday Q&A: Activism in 2022

How to Fix the Court.

Jason Kander on Politics and PTSD

7/10/22: The Reading List

Friday Q&A: Your questions?

The New Gun Reform Law Is the Biggest Expansion of Medicaid Since Obamacare

Courting hypocrisy.

7/3/22: The Reading List

Friday Q&A: America's Activist Supreme Court.

What can our kids teach us about philosophy? with Prof. Scott Hershovitz

On the Front Lines of the Fight for Reproductive Rights

6/26/22: The Reading List

Friday Q&A: Pain at the Pump

The Supreme Court just took a sledgehammer to the separation of church and state.

How We Can End Poverty (and Make Trillions) with Darryl Finkton.

6/12/22: The Reading List

Friday Q/A: The January 6th Hearings

What went wrong in San Francisco?

Why progressives need a better conversation about faith.

How Can Biden Overcome Joe Manchin? An Interview with Bernie's 2020 Campaign Manager.

6/5/22: The Reading List

Friday Q/A: What's on your mind?

Memorializing the victims of Gun Violence.

05/29/22: The Reading List

Friday Q/A: Past "thoughts & prayers?"

Yes, this is about guns.

What four-way stops can teach us about this moment in America.

5/22/2022: The Reading List

Friday Q/A: Corporations and capitalism

Tuesday was a good day for progressives.

The Deadly Race Theory

The Consequences of the War on Terror with Spencer Ackerman

5/15/2022: The Reading List

Friday Q/A: What if the GOP were serious about governing?

My Testimony to the Senate Budget Committee on Medicare for All.

A Message to New Science, Engineering, and Technology Graduates in 2022.

Today's Union Movement with Sarita Gupta

5/8/2022: The Reading List

Friday Q/A: A post-Roe America?

The Fall of Roe.

Fasting slow.

Congressman Ro Khanna on Making Tech Work for All of Us

5/1/2022: The Reading List

Friday Q/A: Mission creep in Ukraine?

Ten tweets on Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover.

COVID isn’t over. At least not for me… or thousands of other people.

Lindsay Owens on What's Driving Inflation

4/24/22: The Reading List

Friday Q/A: The next one

How a “not qualified,” overzealous judge just rewrote public health law as we know it.

Patrick Lyoya.

4/17/22: The Reading List

Casey Michel on the Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History

Friday Q/A: Patrick Lyoya

What if the Whitmer Kidnapping Plotters were Muslim?

What America’s student loan debacle can teach us about neoliberalism.

Friday Q/A: Reflecting on the politics of inspiration.

Between War and War Crimes.

Medicare for All is on the come up.

4/3/2022: The Reading List

Friday Q/A: What's on your mind?

KBJ and CRT.

Nine headlines on “the slap.”

3/27/2022: The Reading List

Friday Q/A: The Pandemic & Medicare for All

Online gambling is exploding. At what cost?

Sanctions claim casualties too.

3/20/2022: The Reading List

"Important, Not Important" by Quinn Emmett

Friday Q/A: Permanent Daylight Savings Time?

No, this isn’t World War III. Let’s keep it that way.

The COVID mistake we keep on making.

3/13/22: The Reading List

Friday Q/A: Advocating for peace in a time of war.

We Must Defend Democracy in Ukraine—and Win It at Home Too

Make renewable energy part of the defense budget.

3/6/22: The Reading List

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, American Hero

Friday Q/A: Unmasking America?

Who gets to be a “worthy” refugee?

Understanding the CDC’s new masking guidelines.

2/27/22: The Reading List

Long Covid Is Just Getting Started. We’re Not Ready for It.

Friday Q/A: The long shadow of war

The Woke-screen.

While we watch Ukraine.

2/20/2022: The Reading List

Friday Q/A: a post-Trump GOP?

Four ways corporate greed is driving inflation.

Inflation explained (by an epidemiologist).

2/13/2022: The Reading List

Why California’s Cowardly Democrats Scurried Away From Single-Payer

Friday Q & A: What's on your mind?

To mask or not to mask, that is not the question.

What a used car can teach us about America.

2/6/2022: The Reading List

Friday Q & A: Racism in the N.F.L.

Yes, it matters that Joe Biden is nominating a Black woman to the Supreme Court.

Rogan, Maus, and the rightwing weaponization of “cancel culture.”

1/30/22: The Reading List

No, Joe Biden has not gone too far to the left.

Friday Q+A: The Future of the Supreme Court

Is this the beginning of the end of the pandemic?

How Medicare is quietly being privatized.

The Incision's Reading List: January 23rd, 2022

Friday Q&A: A bygone Cold War reheats.

The omicron paradox.

The real Martin Luther King Jr. would have some words for us.

Friday Q+A: Omicron's wake

Pandemic School Closures Are an Indictment of America’s Covid Strategy

How social media drives a “Regression to the extremes.”

Friday Q+A: 2022

A year on, the ideological insurrection against our democracy continues.

Omicron’s surging. What you need to know.