Donald Trump becomes president today. And even though he campaigned for a year and a half and then served four years in office and then campaigned essentially nonstop through four years of Joe Biden’s ...

Debating abstractions is difficult and frustrating, and the discourse about “wokeness” and “cancel culture” has become a snakepit of semantic debates, bad-faith actors, and people of goodwill talking ...

Zohran Mamdani, as mayor of New York City, is not really a key actor in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

What happened instead was that Bernie got in the race and then gained some traction, Clinton became obsessed with locking down endorsements from all the Progressive Establishment interest groups, and ...

Hence the slightly bizarre spectacle of conservative pundits Jonathan Keeperman and Christopher Rufo doing a podcast on what ...

A recent Jennifer Harris essay explicating and defending the “post-neoliberal” worldview helped me to understand what this debate is about in a slightly different way. Harris, drawing on Thomas Kuhn, ...

If you’re in the DC area, I’m hosting a book talk for Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld about their new book “The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics.” I ...

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day to all who celebrate (or Columbus Day for those so inclined, but in D.C. it’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day). Something we like to do on these federal holidays is bring an ...

Republicans have more cash than Democrats, and they’re burning it faster — from a Kansas rescue mission to a Maine ad that ...

This is the first election cycle during which I’ve been on X, and I’ve never been more tapped into polls. In past years, I knew generally who was polling well and who was tanking. This midterm cycle, ...

Sriram Krishnan, an Indian-born venture capitalist at Andreessen Horowitz who worked with Elon Musk on the Twitter takeover, tweeted shortly after the election that he wants to “unlock skilled ...