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The Two Events That Could Save Biden

Even though the election is still months away, there is a panting urgency to campaign stories at mainstream publications as political reporters and...

27.05.2024 30

New Republic

Walter Shapiro

The Protest Vote That Still Haunts Me 50 Years Later

17.05.2024 50

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Will the last ticket-splitting voter please turn out the light?

14.05.2024 30

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Walter Shapiro

No, the 2024 Election Won’t Be Anything Like 1968

09.05.2024 30

New Republic

Walter Shapiro

Republicans can’t stop threatening their speaker? Take away their TV!

Marjorie Taylor Greene is poised to make history this week if she goes forward with her bid to oust Mike Johnson as House speaker.  After her lengthy...

07.05.2024 50

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Joe Biden’s Terrible Approval Rating May Not Matter

Six months before the most fateful election of our lifetimes, we are entering that moment in the campaign when model makers rush onstage hawking their...

06.05.2024 60

New Republic

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Is this the year that no one watches political spots?

Little more than a decade ago, campaign finance reform was one of the hottest issues animating Democrats. Now it seems as irrelevant as a national...

30.04.2024 50

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The 10 Types of Dems Who Will Decide the 2024 Election

Just because the 2024 election may decide the future of American democracy doesn’t mean that the race is riveting, let alone dramatic, six months...

29.04.2024 20

New Republic

Walter Shapiro

Mike Johnson’s Cynical, Grandstanding Visit to Columbia University

Last week, House Speaker Mike Johnson channeled Arthur Vandenberg as he adroitly steered desperately badly needed military aid to Ukraine around...

25.04.2024 20

New Republic

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The GOP’s Worst Fears About the End of Roe v. Wade Have Come True

Nearly two years after the leak of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion overturning Roe v Wade, abortion refuses to step out of the...

22.04.2024 70

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Avoid hot takes on Trump’s supposed trial of the century

The unmourned death of O.J. Simpson last week provided a timely reminder that a criminal trial can galvanize a nation. The political question hovering...

16.04.2024 7

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Walter Shapiro

Mayorkas impeachment is a portrait in partisan posturing

Impeachment was once considered the most serious and solemn constitutional obligation of Congress. Then-Sen. John F. Kennedy, in his Pulitzer-Prize...

09.04.2024 10

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Party of Reagan? Please. This GOP Is the Appeaser Generation.

Forty years ago, Jeane Kirkpatrick, a hawkish former Democrat who was Ronald Reagan’s U.N. ambassador, electrified the 1984 Republican convention by...

09.04.2024 10

New Republic

Walter Shapiro

The election-year dance over ByteDance and TikTok

There are many compelling reasons to recoil at Chinese ownership of TikTok, starting with the quashing of political freedom in once freewheeling Hong...

19.03.2024 7

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Why Gaza Won’t Cost Biden the Presidency

Slowly, but inexorably, Israel is losing the leaders of the Democratic Party over its brutal war in Gaza.  Kamala Harris , getting ahead of her boss...

17.03.2024 10

New Republic

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Katie Britt and the folly of fake fearmongering

If someone had told Katie Britt on election night 2022 that she would someday by portrayed by megastar Scarlett Johansson, the newly elected Alabama...

12.03.2024 7

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Walter Shapiro

Biden Needs to Stop Hiding

White House leaks in advance of the State of the Union Address have telegraphed Joe Biden’s intention to stress how age and experience have made him...

07.03.2024 40

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President to deliver ‘State of Joe Biden’ address as he seeks reelection

On the cusp of the third State of the Union address of his presidency, Joe Biden is confronting subterranean approval ratings, two wars (Gaza and...

05.03.2024 4

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The Media Is Overhyping the “Uncommitted” Threat to Biden

Finally, Democrats have a presidential contender who can appeal to the most disaffected voters in the party’s sprawling and sometimes unwieldy...

29.02.2024 10

New Republic

Walter Shapiro

Don’t Panic, Democrats!

This is shaping up as a presidential election designed to Donald Rumsfeld’s specifications. At a 2002 press conference during the run-up to the...

27.02.2024 10

New Republic

Walter Shapiro

A tour of the Capitol Hill ‘Hall of No Shame’

During a televised hearing 70 years ago that brought down demagogic Wisconsin Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy, patrician Boston lawyer Joseph Welch...

27.02.2024 20

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Why Nikki Haley Should Stay in the Race

Waging a race against Donald Trump that even Don Quixote might consider not worth the gamble, Nikki Haley gives the impression that, at long last, she...

23.02.2024 10

New Republic

Walter Shapiro

Finally, a glimmer of hope on Ukraine aid — maybe

The line is widely, but incorrectly, attributed to Winston Churchill. In truth, it is probably a modification of a remark made by 20th century Israeli...

13.02.2024 4

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Joe Biden’s Historically Selfish Decision to Run for Reelection

From his earliest days in politics, more than a half-century ago, Joe Biden has understood the potency of the age issue.  When the 29-year-old Biden...

12.02.2024 20

New Republic

Walter Shapiro

The best politics on immigration is to forget about politics

The Senate immigration bill, finally released just in time to roil Congress on Sunday night, offers more political angles than a high-school...

06.02.2024 4

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Trump makes a bull in a china shop look tame on immigration and other matters

When he wasn’t having temper tantrums in a Manhattan courtroom, Donald Trump — the one-man wrecking ball destroying political norms — turned his...

30.01.2024 7

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Nikki Haley Just Lost Her Best Chance to Beat Trump

Nikki Haley will always have Dixville Notch whose six midnight votes in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary she carried unanimously. The former South...

24.01.2024 20

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Walter Shapiro

Will voters punish total incompetence? House Republicans are about to find out

The cheering is still echoing in my ears and bits of brightly colored confetti are stubbornly clinging to my head. Not since the raucous celebration...

23.01.2024 8

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What Have We Learned in the Republican Presidential Race? Almost Nothing.

Campaign reporters have been breathlessly chronicling the 2024 Republican primaries since Donald Trump prematurely launched his third presidential bid...

22.01.2024 20

New Republic

Walter Shapiro

Congress at Christmas: A debacle of democracy

Sixty years ago, fashionable liberal opinion was in despair over congressional dysfunction.  In 1963, eminent political scientist and Democratic...

12.12.2023 20

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Five Ways Biden Can Win in 2024

Picture a happy Democrat.  C’mon. Concentrate. You can do it.  Maybe you can recall the momentary joy on the Saturday after the 2020 election...

11.12.2023 10

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