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Jan. 27, 2025
Could the Supreme Court Back Trump on Birthright Citizenship? Law professor Gerard Magliocca on the multiple reasons Trump’s executive order will likely fail.
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Jan. 21, 2025
Why the Gaza Cease-fire Probably Won’t Last Andrew Miller, a high-ranking State Department official under Biden, discusses the state of a fragile truce and Trump’s effect on the Middle East.
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Jan. 13, 2025
Los Angeles Shouldn’t Rebuild the Same Way Again Environmental historian Char Miller makes a case for retreating from the hills.
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Jan. 8, 2025
There’s Still Hope for Snow-Loving New Yorkers This Year Meteorologist John Homenuk returns to explain why the city keeps dodging big storms and why all is not yet lost.
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Jan. 6, 2025
Why Trump’s Mass-Deportation Plans Depend on Mexico He can’t turn incendiary rhetoric into action without help from other countries, policy expert Dara Lind says.
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Dec. 30, 2024
How Worried Should We Be About the Latest Bird-Flu Mutation? A virologist explains that why this probably isn’t the big one — but that it’s a sign of bad things happening with the virus.
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Dec. 16, 2024
They Shocked Assad and the World. What Will They Do Next? Syria analyst Sam Heller on what to expect from the country’s new government of rebels.
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Dec. 11, 2024
How Trump Could Attack Trans Rights A legal scholar weighs in on what the next few years may look like for trans rights.
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Dec. 10, 2024
How Luigi Mangione Probably Gave Himself Away A former FBI agent spells out the methods law enforcement officials use to tighten their dragnet.
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Dec. 9, 2024
Why Trump Can Probably Get Away With a Mass Government Purge Public-policy expert Donald Kettl thinks legal challenges won’t stop the incoming president — but backlash might slow him down.
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Dec. 2, 2024
Jimmy Wales on Why Wikipedia Is Still So Good After almost a quarter-century, the online encyclopedia remains an internet oasis.
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Nov. 26, 2024
Pat Ryan Ran As a ‘Different Kind of Democrat’ — and Won Big The New York congressman has won two tough races in two years. He thinks the Democratic Party could learn something.
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Nov. 25, 2024
America’s Alarming Bird-Flu Strategy: Hope for the Best Two virology professors discuss the lackluster response to an increasingly concerning outbreak.
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Nov. 24, 2024
Will We Get More Answers About UFOs in a Second Trump Term? A former Defense staffer explains how Trump’s intelligence appointees could provide more clarity in the search to find what is flying above our heads.
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Nov. 20, 2024
Chris Murphy Wants Democrats to Break Up With Neoliberalism The Democratic senator speaks out about the future of his party.
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Nov. 15, 2024
The Latinos Who Found Their Inner MAGA Reporter Jack Herrera says that Trump won over many Latino voters — but Democrats lost them first.
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Nov. 9, 2024
Why Kamala Harris’s Campaign Was Doomed From the Start Cook Political Report editor-in-chief Amy Walter on what she learned from a decisive Trump win.
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Nov. 1, 2024
What’s Keeping a Prominent Election Analyst Up at Night RealClearPolitics’s Sean Trende worries that swing-state polls might be missing something big.
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Nov. 1, 2024
Steve Kornacki Is Undecided Will he wear khakis? Will he sleep? MSNBC’s unlikely star prepares for Election Night.
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Oct. 31, 2024
Why Arizona Is Looking Trumpier in 2024 Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, an expert in Grand Canyon State politics, on Kamala Harris’s uphill battle.
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Oct. 31, 2024
The Artist Behind the Trump Statues in Portland and Philly Explains His Work The artist explains the guerilla installations of Trump honoring his alleged “lifetime of sexual assault.”
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Oct. 29, 2024
How Did This Become the Gender-Gap Election? Trump vs. Harris brings America’s gendered political preferences into sharper focus.
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Oct. 28, 2024
Can Kamala Harris Pull Off Another Upset in Georgia? Four years after a tumultuous presidential election in the Peach State, she’s an underdog against Trump.
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Oct. 22, 2024
Why There Are ‘More Warning Signs’ for Harris Than for Trump Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman on where he sees the toss-up presidential race two weeks out.
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Oct. 21, 2024
Will Trump’s Detroit Demonization Cost Him Michigan? Detroit Free Press politics editor Emily Lawler on the state of play in the Wolverine State.
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Oct. 20, 2024
‘I Would Rather Be Kamala Harris Than I Would Donald Trump’ What Jim Messina, who guided Obama’s re-election, sees with two weeks left.
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Oct. 15, 2024
Nevada’s Election Oracle Says His Crystal Ball Is Broken Jon Ralston on why the Silver State is so hard to call this year.
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Oct. 14, 2024
David Plouffe on Harris vs. Trump: ‘Too Close for Comfort’ The veteran strategist on the state of play for his boss, Kamala Harris, and what he thinks of the “ bed-wetters.”
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Oct. 10, 2024
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Oct. 8, 2024
Why Russia Is in More Trouble Than It Looks Military analyst Michael Kofman on where the war in Ukraine is headed after two and a half years.
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Oct. 7, 2024
How Israelis Are Feeling One Year After October 7 Political scientist Dahlia Scheindlin on the country’s collective state of mind today.
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Sept. 30, 2024
Why Kamala Harris May Have a (Slight) Edge in Wisconsin Renowned pollster Charles Franklin points to a Madison population boom and superior Democratic organizing.
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Sept. 23, 2024
Can Democrats Finally Win a State That Torments Them? North Carolina politics guru Michael Bitzer on why Kamala Harris may succeed where Biden and Clinton failed.
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Sept. 22, 2024
J.D. Vance and the Rise of the ‘Postliberal’ Catholics His rise may bring relatively obscure ideologies ever closer to political power.
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Sept. 20, 2024
Where Are the New York City Corruption Probes Going? A former SDNY prosecutor on the recent raids targeting top city officials and when charges might be filed.
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Sept. 16, 2024
Making Sense of Pennsylvania’s Stubbornly Deadlocked Polls Analyst and pollster Berwood Yost thinks Harris is well positioned but that she missed an opportunity to seal the deal.
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Sept. 9, 2024
James Carville on How Kamala Beats Trump The venerable strategist on Harris’s debate plan, Biden’s moment of reckoning, and his decades in the Democratic trenches.
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Sept. 4, 2024
Andy Roddick on What’s ‘Bullshit’ About Modern Tennis The outspoken former player and popular podcaster discusses social-media abuse, endless seasons, and weighty expectations for American men.
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Aug. 31, 2024
Why the Telegram Prosecution May Move the Overton Window on Free Speech France’s path-breaking arrest of Pavel Durov worries a Stanford professor.
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Aug. 26, 2024
Why Kamala Harris Is Suddenly Surging Among Latinos Equis Research’s Carlos Odio explains what her campaign understands about a key voting bloc.
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Aug. 5, 2024
Can Kamala Harris Win Just Enough of the Working Class? Longtime political analyst Ruy Teixeira thinks she’s a long way from reassembling the Obama coalition.
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July 29, 2024
What Kamala Harris’s Candidacy Means for Black Women Political consultant Kimberly Peeler-Allen says there has been an outpouring of jubilation — tempered with fear.
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July 24, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Biographer Says She’s Always Been Underestimated Dan Morain, author of Kamala’s Way , on the presumptive Democratic nominee’s ambition and opacity.
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July 22, 2024
Why the GOP Effort to Stop Biden’s Withdrawal Is Bogus Election-law expert James Gardner says the Republican legal efforts are groundless — but they just might work.
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July 18, 2024
An Early Democratic Critic of Biden on What Changed This Week Congressman Adam Smith says Nancy Pelosi has “played a huge role.”
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July 16, 2024
How Security Went So Wrong at Trump’s Rally Former Secret Service agent Robert McDonald says the agency might have dropped the ball well before Saturday.
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July 12, 2024
Can Biden’s Poll Numbers Possibly Recover? Cook Political Report editor-in-chief Amy Walter discusses what the numbers tell us about his — and Kamala Harris’s — prospects.
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July 11, 2024
Why An Nvidia Engineer Quit at the Start of the AI Boom Jacopo Pantaleoni helped create the chip that powers OpenAI. He has regrets.
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July 8, 2024
Did the Supreme Court Kill Every Case Against Trump? Law professor Steve Vladeck on where a radical ruling leaves the former president’s prospects in court.
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July 7, 2024
Frail, Stressed, Stiff, and Blinking: An Aging Expert on Biden’s Shocking Debate “Looking at him today versus a few months ago is very concerning,” explains professor and researcher Steven N. Austad.
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