Peter Dreier
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Peter Dreier is the E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics at Occidental College.

As Election Day approaches, Trump has repeatedly suggested that, should he lose, it will be the Jews’ fault. The remarks have a long and complicated backstory.

The number of former Cabinet secretaries and staffers who have denounced their one-time boss, Donald Trump, is unprecedented.

Attempts to cast Bowman as part of a trend gloss over the details of the district and the candidate.

Although he liked to portray the NRA as representing grassroots gun owners, LaPierre was a corporate lobbyist and his major clients were the corporations whose profits grow when there are few restrictions on the sale and ownership of guns and ammunition.

UAW president Shawn Fain described the victory as a 'turning point in the class war.'

Most Jews reject Republican policy positions and trust Democrats over Republicans on all major issues, including fighting antisemitism, but Trump’s extremism is particularly unpopular among Jewish voters.

Throughout the debt-ceiling crisis, news reports have wrongly suggested that each party's activist wings balance one another out.

Public awareness is increasing. But police killings have not significantly declined.