The Right Voting Reforms—and the Wrong Ones
In Maine yesterday, Graham Platner won his primary with 72 percent of the vote, suggesting that the latest allegations against…
ICE Raids at World Cup Games? A Los Angeles Union Says, No Way!
On Friday, the first World Cup match featuring the U.S. team will be held at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, one…
Some of the Kids Are All Right
They seem to have resolved, without even thinking about it, that they are not going to let the larger national…
The Republican Senate Chickens Out
In the end, the Republican caucus went meekly along and approved the ICE funding, with no limits on the slush…
How a Pro-Worker Bill May Advance in the House
As my colleague Bob Kuttner has been documenting of late, the congressional Republicans’ lockstep support for every Trumpian outrage and…
A Good Election Night for Progressives
Let’s begin with California. Though Republican Steve Hilton is currently leading in the jungle primary for the governor’s race, with…
How California Politics Became So Blah
It’s Election Day in California, and it raises a meta-question that’s not before the voters as such, but that nonetheless…
One Company May Know Everything About You
A disturbing story at the intersection of innovations in war and our surveillance economy broke last week. Reuters reported on…
AIPAC and Auchincloss
The other day, Rep. Jake Auchincloss, a corporate Democrat who represents one of the most liberal districts in Massachusetts, dredged…
Now There Are Five
I don’t play in prediction markets, but there’s certainly now a non-negligible chance that the Democrats could win control not…