Reversing the Republican power grab
What’s at stake is not partisan politics. It is representative government. If Democrats get the opportunity, they must redress this growing imbalance — for the sake of democracy.
National Opinions
Oil and America’s energy future
Risking our future on unproven claims and predictions based on wishful thinking has a bad track record.
Biden 2020. Make the presidency boring again.
I want you to vote Biden because I want to go four days without saying, “What the hell . . . ?”
Five myths about shareholders
Are they really focused only on profits?
Will changes to American life become permanent?
The coronavirus, widespread quarantines, an unprecedented self-induced recession, and unchecked rioting, looting and protesting — all in a presidential election year — are radically disrupting American habits and behavior.
We saved our economy in Sweden, but too many people died
Other countries shouldn’t rush to emulate our pandemic strategy.
Barrett’s ‘originalist’ stance is the only one that makes sense
To listen to many Democrats in the Barrett hearings, the alternative is to simply look for the policy outcomes you want and declare them constitutional.
The public, the personal and the utter hypocrisy of the GOP
It’s a tortured, topsy-turvy view of what’s public and what’s private. Yet it’s remarkably prevalent as the pandemic resurges and as the Senate considers Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court.
Why hasn’t Joe Biden said no to Democratic threats to pack the Supreme Court?
He failed in his quest for the White House before, and now he so desperately wants to be president that he’d countenance threats from the left against the independence of the Supreme Court.
The unmentioned issue in this campaign
No reporter asks about it. The candidates don’t talk about it. Are voters even concerned about it?
Working from home is here to stay, so let’s get it right
Covid-19 forced the world to recognize the advantages of a more flexible definition of “office.”
Five myths about voting by mail
No, Russia and Iran can’t flood mailboxes with fake ballots.
Five myths about the 25th Amendment
It’s not just about physical incapacity, and it doesn’t provide for removal of a president.
Five myths about the suburbs
No, the suburbs aren’t all about open space and multicar garages.
Five myths about Stan Lee
No, he didn’t create the Marvel universe - and he wasn’t a political progressive.
I tracked electoral votes for George W. Bush. Beware of 2020 forecasts.
A divided population, the pandemic and more fall surprises make the predictions game risky.
Alaska’s governor on the virus and the election
Alaska is one of eight states with the lowest number of COVID cases and deaths in the country.
The conservative moment
The passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gives conservatives and Republicans what they claim to have wanted since judicial activism became the norm in the 1960s.
Five myths about long-term care
In fact, Medicare doesn’t pay for it.
In American politics today, the center is a lonely place to be
The definition of centrism has been changing before our eyes as the culture has become more partisan.