“Leaks are most often an outsider’s tool, and they look different from a vantage of power”
Leaks are most often an outsider’s tool, and they look different from a vantage...
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“Democrats have given Republicans the priceless gift of letting them be the party that talks more about good jobs for working-class Americans”
Democrats have given Republicans the priceless gift of letting them be the party that...
“I want to know what my rabbi thinks of Jacob and Rachel, not of Pence and Pelosi”
I know outstanding rabbis on the left of the political spectrum and others on...
“By virtue of their unvarnished nature, leaks have evolved into the realest of facts”
In politics, the word “leak” conjures whistle-blowing and heroism or villainy and subterfuge, depending...
“To label something ‘un-American’ is to imagine America as it should have been or as it might yet be but not as it ever was”
On the surface, “un-American” implies consensus: It carries a punch only when everybody agrees...
“The parties and politicians of the center have become the managers of the status quo in an era when people want change. So, the center — in both its center-right and center-left camps — is marginalized, even despised”
The same dynamics are splintering the left, too. One element has aligned with the...
” It turns out that what Democrats were missing was a sense of existential emergency. Mr. Trump has provided it”
One hundred days into his administration, President Trump has few legislative achievements to his...
“Politics is being reshaped, and this phenomenon is the same whether it is in the United States or in Europe”
Politics is being reshaped, and this phenomenon is the same whether it is in...
“The idealized vision of 1950s womanhood that still permeates our politics ignores the fact that staying home may not actually make mothers happy”
The idealized vision of 1950s womanhood that still permeates our politics ignores the fact...
“The intellectual and political task ahead is at once to resist the ugliest manifestations of the new right-wing populism…and to confront the consequences of globalism, technology, and cultural change”
The opposition to Trump also has to give deeper thought to why a demagogue...