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Democrats Tuesday Night Lesson: The Cure For Whisper Politics
If Democrats want to govern, they have to stop apologizing for oxygen, pick fights they can win in public, scrap the procedural choke points on purpose, and brag until the story sticks. There is a certain sound to a party that does not trust itself. It is crisp, consultative, and terrified of verbs. You can
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Hunger as Leverage: The White House’s Calculated Pause of SNAP During the Shutdown
Turning food aid into a bargaining chip, and calling it fiscal responsibility Here is the grotesque irony of the 2025 federal shutdown: the largest food-aid program in the United States, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), serving roughly forty-two million Americans, was treated not as a lifeline but as a cudgel. When the walls came
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Competence Wins a News Cycle: The Week Democrats Made Normal Look Radically Blue
For once, America looked up from its collective doom scroll and saw something profoundly un-American by recent standards: functioning democracy. No coups, no indictments, no men in designer flak jackets shouting about tyranny from podcast studios. Just elections that ran, counted, and ended with results that made sense. Zohran Mamdani became New York City’s first
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The Night New York Chose Hope Over Fear And Turned Zohran Mamdani’s Microphone On
A working city ignored a presidential threat, shrugged at nostalgia, and handed the job to a 34-year-old borough organizer who treated power like a verb. The story begins the way most power stories do, inside a pressure chamber. A president raised the cost of defiance on a city he does not love. A former governor
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Democrats Don’t Need Better Candidates They Need To Give Them The Mic And Get Out Of The Way
There is a certain kind of strategy meeting that feels like a hostage situation with snacks. A windowless conference room, a lonely fern, a PowerPoint with too many gradient arrows, and ten people who confuse caution with wisdom. Someone says the word “authentic” while polishing a sentence that has never met a human mouth. Someone
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The Ocean’s 107 Days Problem: George Clooney and the Art of Missing the Point
There’s something almost poetic about George Clooney criticizing the Democratic Party from an Italian villa while American democracy keeps coughing up blood in the background. It’s like watching a man deliver a eulogy for a house he helped burn down, except he’s doing it over espresso, wearing a watch that costs more than a precinct’s
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When the Substitute Teacher Runs the School: Obama’s Return and the Democrats’ Echo Problem
There are few sights as surreal as watching a former president outshine his successors while trying not to. Barack Obama, ten years out of office, has become the most effective voice in the Democratic Party again, not because nostalgia sells, but because competence apparently does. His reemergence on the campaign trail for down-ballot Democrats feels
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The Case for Kamala Harris: The 107-Day Trial, the Lost Race, and Why 2028 Could Be Her Full Shot
This piece is part of my ongoing series where I make the affirmative case for every potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate—their virtues, their pitfalls, their receipts. Each of them gets the same treatment: no mythmaking, no memes, no mercy. Today’s subject is the one who had the least time but left the deepest mark. Kamala
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Trump Broke America in 2015 and She Never Healed: Your Decade in One Grim Timeline.
Grief and fury arrived together, like relatives who cannot stand each other but share a last name. One sits with a box of tissues and tells you to breathe. The other opens a window and says jump or move. I remember the moment the country broke, not as metaphor but as sound, a brittle snap
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The Golden Throne of Mar-a-Lincoln: When Optics Replace Government
It is a curious image of the modern presidency: the country in a government shutdown, the courts ordering the Department of Agriculture to raid emergency funds to keep SNAP afloat, and the Commander-in-Chief posting 24 glossy photos of his newly renovated Lincoln Bathroom, complete with black and white statuary marble, gold handles on the tub,