Will Amy Coney Barrett save America — or wreck it?
The American political system is much more dynamic and self-reactive than either left-wing or right-wing activists assume
How democracy dies
Mail-in voting undermines elections
The amazingly persistent myth of a non-political Supreme Court
Democrats must learn to grow up and accept the terms of America’s constitution
After Trump, the reckoning
The election of Biden and Harris will not solve any of the problems that led to Trump’s election in the first place
Trump redefines the race
Trump is using Biden’s inertia and lack of a positive agenda to define the Democrat
Joe Biden’s Republican convention
Two generations, two Democratic parties, one of them also a Republican party, awkwardly mashed together in a single convention
Will it be Biden-Harris or Harris-Biden?
The rich will do well in Biden-Harris America, the middle class will be in life support and the violent will be unhampered
The mock revolution of the elites
Progressive liberals get a psychic reward from incanting the right words
Same old same old
Politics is less bedeviled by the age of the parties’ leaders than by the staleness of the parties’ programs
Why Jeff Sessions lost
He was defeated by the new cyborg that is the Republican party — half-Trump, half-GOP machine of old
Self-righteous vandals
The attempt to prettify history is ugly
Neocons come home to roost
Reagan was tarred as an extremist in much the same terms as Trump. Yet the neocons supported him
This riot is brought to you by Nike
Corporate America wants you to know it totally rejects imperialism and racism. Just not the Chinese variety
The roots of riot
This is the most sterile rebellion any country has ever seen
Why did Justin Amash give up?
He was just too scared of upsetting the gatekeeper class
When money dies
$1,200 isn’t going to stretch very far for workers who have lost their jobs, or even for those still employed
Who will be Joe Biden’s co-president?
The Democrats need a VP nominee who represents the future. They don’t seem to have one
Justin Amash: a study in vanity
This preening egotist is the anti-Ron Paul
Why Joe Biden’s America loves a lockdown
The divide between the professional and servant classes has never been more stark
Foreign policy is in a straitjacket
The Ivy League graduates who constitute America’s foreign policy elite think just like Robespierre
After the coronavirus, who wins the recovery?
The pandemic will recede, and so will the panic it has touched off — though bad policy precedents will stick around
Will Joe Biden be the Hillary Clinton of 2020?
Once again, the establishment Democrat is edging out Bernie Sanders
Why I’m voting for Tulsi in Virginia
A vote for her is the clearest possible vote against the war party
Biden’s Pyrrhic victory
Blocking Sanders with Biden is tantamount to writing off the Democratic party’s own youth activist wing
What the new nationalism means
The revolution is complete. The old revolutionaries are now the establishment
