David Goodhart is one of the best-known commentators on British politics. In 1995, after a career at the Financial Times, he…
I first learned of Dani Rodrik in 1997 when I came across his pamphlet, Has Globalization Gone Too Far?. That…
Ruy Teixeira (pronounced Tush-aira) and I have been friends since the early 1970s when we were members of a socialist…
I first encountered Robert Atkinson when he was working at the Office of Technology Assessment on Capitol Hill in the…
In the spring of 2007, famed union organizer Marshall Ganz began meeting with the Obama campaign. Ganz persuaded them to…
It is hard not to compare Donald Trump’s chilling performance last Friday to Charles Schumer’s tepid one—the Big Lie countered…
Joshua Landis is head of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma and publishes the influential…
Next year will be a test for whether Europe’s leading parties can withstand the populist revolt that has already shaken…
[The following was originally presented as a speech before the Congrés de Periodistes de Catalunya in mid-November. Learn more about…
At first glance, the victory of Donald Trump suggests that big political money has less clout than imagined in U.S….
There is rarely one single reason why a presidential candidate wins an election. The results are “overdetermined,” as Freud used…
Let me start by getting a few important points out of the way, so it is clear what I’m saying.
Donald Trump may be out of step with the Republican Party’s traditional stance on some issues, like support for international…
Every election is, in a way, a protest vote. Listen to this interview with Ron Susskind on “Radio Open Source”…
This past fall, before he died of cancer, my pal Joel Kurtzman reflected on what made its menace so fascinating….
Editor’s Note: Mark Cuban is a genuine billionaire and frenemy of Donald Trump’s who’s been increasingly critical of Trump and…
This is the week to say the things that go without saying. Mainstream Republicans—not just their Gorgeous George nominee, shock-radio…
Right after Barack Obama’s election in 2008, I flew off to Australia and New Zealand to attend a conference and…
Democrats love to talk about Republican voter suppression, and various ways, such as strict voter identification laws, that have been…
You might wonder what the connection is between a friendly game of golf last summer in Martha’s Vineyard and the…
“Darkness at Noon had staying power,” Michael Scammell writes in The New York Review of Books, “for Rubashov’s story…powerfully illuminates…
It’s an old tradition in American democracy: debating how to define it. The elite has a strong penchant for tarring…
“Hot Air” — that was The Huffington Post homepage headline last Sunday on the National Enquirer’s exclusive that GOP presidential…
Last week, our suggestion that Hillary Clinton call for the resignations of her pals Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Democratic…
There are two Democrats whose resignation from office right now would do their party and country a service.
Back in September, well before the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, I wrote a TPM Café article in…
In August 1983, a year after the Lebanon War ended not-as-planned, Israel’s then-Prime Minister, Menachem Begin, retired from politics and,…
This post originally appeared at Election Law Blog. It was reprinted here with permission of the author. Can we have…
This post was originally published at Election Law Blog. Justice Antonin Scalia has died in Texas at the age of…
We found ourselves this week talking about two very different guys, both born in Canada, who skated to triumph thanks…
