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Democratic Party leaders are talking tough about retaliatory gerrymandering, but falling short.
Forum | Opinion

Democratic Party leaders are talking tough about retaliatory gerrymandering, but falling short.

  • By David Daley and David Faris
  • Aug 28, 2025

Gavin Newsom, Kathy Hochul and J.B. Pritzker have had it. Texas wants to steal five U.S. House seats and boost the GOP’s midterm hopes through…

The left also must examine its own role in enabling Trumpism to take hold.
Forum | Opinion

The left also must examine its own role in enabling Trumpism to take hold.

  • Jeff Faux
  • Mar 27, 2025

Donald Trump is already overreaching, and Democrats may well rebound in the next election merely by default. But behind the megalomania of Tru…

It’s time for the Democratic Party to abandon staid resistance to Trumpism and get ready to fight.
Forum | Opinion

It’s time for the Democratic Party to abandon staid resistance to Trumpism and get ready to fight.

  • Elie Mystal
  • Jan 2, 2025

No more deals. No more games. No more parliamentarian parlor tricks designed to dull the roughest edges of Donald Trump’s unconscionable polic…

The Democratic Party should reject its consultant class in favor of local leadership.
Forum | Opinion

The Democratic Party should reject its consultant class in favor of local leadership.

  • Pete Davis
  • Nov 14, 2024

Everyone is offering post-election “if onlys.” Some are tactical: if only Harris had gone on Joe Rogan. Some are ideological: if only she had …

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After the post-election daze wears off, it’s time to get to work.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Nov 6, 2024

Sara Rubin here, bleary eyed after a long election night. There’s the literal meaning to that—the wonderful journalists I work with here at th…

Joe Biden needs to realize that the election isn’t just about him.
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Joe Biden needs to realize that the election isn’t just about him.

  • Jeet Heer
  • Jul 11, 2024

The distressing truth about Joe Biden isn’t just that he’s visibly aged as president, but also that, as he fends off calls to give up being th…

Biden and Trump should both drop out. Our country is too important.
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Biden and Trump should both drop out. Our country is too important.

  • The Editorial Board
  • Jul 4, 2024

Last Thursday night, June 27, two very different men stood on stage to debate the issues and to attempt to persuade the American voting public…

Letters to the Editor 04.13.23
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Letters to the Editor 04.13.23

  • Apr 13, 2023

Heads in Beds

Assemblymember Robert Rivas is confident he will become the next Speaker. Can he hold on?
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Assemblymember Robert Rivas is confident he will become the next Speaker. Can he hold on?

  • Christopher Neely
  • Aug 11, 2022

When it comes to power among California’s political ranks, there is the governor, and then, according to many in Sacramento, there is the spea…

The January 6 committee hearings are not going to save us, even if they energize the left.
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The January 6 committee hearings are not going to save us, even if they energize the left.

  • Daniel Bessner and Ben Burgis
  • Aug 11, 2022

We live in historic times. The hearings of the January 6 committee are Watergate 2.0. Democracy is at death’s door, and if we want to ensure t…

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