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Many Republicans might be unwilling to divulge their views to pollsters affiliated with media organizations or universities.
In an era of rising or persistent nationalism, monarchy can provide a legitimacy that even a superficially popular authoritarian lacks.
The potential in people's hearts can escape detection by experts and may be appreciated better, though without precision, by ordinary people.
A relearning of the way the world works is needed, even more than sweeping flailing septuagenarians aside.
Student loan forgiveness has moral hazard effects. For the Biden White House, that's a feature, not a bug.
Just about half of Black House members have constituencies with non-Black majorities.
"Anyone thrilled at the prospect of trying to prosecute a former president under the Espionage Act has blacked out the recent history of this law."
There's a nontrivial possibility that both parties' optimists may be right this year.
There are underlying geopolitical forces behind Russia's and China's challenge to American leadership, and a religious motivation behind Iran's.
It turns out a diverse society is sometimes and in some respects just too diverse.
Is Trump's lock on a third presidential nomination all that secure? Recent polling suggests the answer is no.
There are few signs now that either Trump or the Democrats are ready to "lament and condemn" the "measures" they have been taking.
You hear it said and see it written that Bernie Sanders will be another George McGovern — that is, a left-wing nominee who lost a presidential election in a landslide.
Bernie Sanders' victories in the inaccurately counted Iowa caucuses, the crisply conducted New Hampshire primary and the Nevada caucuses have made two things clear.
The 2020 presidential race has got the Democratic Party, the oldest political party in the world, twisted in knots.
It's a familiar plotline. An interloper runs for a party's presidential nomination and, with an anti-insider pitch, scores wins and near-wins in the first contests with vote pluralities.
Are we watching a great political party commit suicide?
The old becomes the new. It's less than a week from of the Iowa caucuses, and Bernie Sanders, born in September 1941, three months before Pearl Harbor, leads the RealClearPolitics average of recent polls by 4 points in Iowa, 10 points in New Hampshire and 5 points in the biggest delegate prize, the Super Tuesday-voting California.
We live in history-making times.
Elections are a form of communication. Voting tells politicians, and the press if they're capable of getting the message, what citizens will tolerate and what they won't.
