Thursday, April 16, 2026

Young People Are Fascinating—Just Don't Expect Them to Decide the 2026 Election

›
“Young Voters Vehemently Oppose Trump, ICE” reported the Yale Youth Poll this week , drawing on a national survey conducted in March that re...
Thursday, April 02, 2026

Republican Governing Mistakes Are the Great Partisan Equalizer

›
The Democratic Party faces a set of serious challenges. It has lost its former popularity among white voters without college degrees , a sig...
Wednesday, November 05, 2025

Five Lessons from the 2025 Election Results

›
1. “Unless the president is unusually popular, the party holding the White House will suffer significant losses in off-year elections” is a ...
Tuesday, November 05, 2024

Honest Graft Podcasting with Chris Hayes and FiveThirtyEight

›
Along with Matt Grossmann, the co-author of my new book Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed America...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

In the 2024 Elections, It's a Man's Man's Man's Republican Party

›
One of the most important consequences of Donald Trump's political ascendance in 2016 was the effect it had on the political engagement ...
Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Post-Debate Wrap Up: Not Much to Learn, But a Clear Story Forms

›
 1. Most debates, whatever their other (dubious) merits , are not good vehicles for determining how candidates differ on substantive policy ...
Friday, August 23, 2024

Democratic Convention Wrap-Up: 16 Years Later, It's Still Obama's Party

›
A few notes on the week the Democrats just had in Chicago: 1. 20 years after his national emergence as a keynote speaker at the 2004 convent...