Most of us, I suspect, have occasionally found ourselves lying wide awake at 4 o’ clock in the morning as a festival of regrets flashes before the inward eye. I am comparatively lucky since in my predawn melancholy I am not mourning a lost love, a foolish refu... More »
With democracy itself on the line, the 2024 election will almost certainly be the nation’s most consequential since 1860. It will also be the weirdest. There are two fundamental facts about this campaign that do not appear to be making much of an impact on wha... More »
At a rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Saturday, former President Donald Trump gave a 90-minute stemwinder in which he praised Hannibal Lecter—a fictional cannibalistic serial killer, mind you—as a “wonderful man,” and, in nearly the same breath, disparaged im... More »
Politics/Rethinking Rural/ May 17, 2024Putting together a Democratic majority in 2024 requires winning back some portion of the rural working class. The good news is that it can be done. Here’s how.Ad PolicyBruce, after arriving in the ... More »
In polls of swing state voters, 14 percent of those who said they voted for President Biden in 2020 said they weren’t backing him now.Frederick Westbrook, a retired Las Vegas hotel worker, voted for President Biden in 2020 — as a vote to get Donald J. Trump ou... More »
President Biden is pushing for a broad deal that would get Israel to approve a Palestinian nation in return for Saudi recognition of Israel. But officials need to overcome Israeli opposition.Two years into President Biden’s term, his aides began negotiating wi... More »
In Montana, Republicans are trying to paint Senator Jon Tester as a Washington sellout, while their own candidate, Tim Sheehy, faces scrutiny over his credibility and how he sustained a gunshot wound.The rural dirt farmer versus the decorated Navy SEAL.The lon... More »
No state screams “blue wall” louder than Minnesota.It hasn’t gone for a Republican since Richard Nixon in 1972.Democrats say former President Donald Trump doesn’t stand a chance there.And yet President Joe Biden's campaign is pushing out top-shelf local Democr... More »
Politics/ May 17, 2024Some observers say the war isn’t that big a deal in the 2024 campaign. Here’s why they’re so wrong.Ad PolicyPresident Joe Biden delivers remarks while meeting with the Joint Chiefs and Combatant Commanders in the Cabinet... More »
Activism/ May 17, 2024Across New York, overdose deaths are skyrocketing. But state officials are stalling on an evidence-based model that works.Ad PolicyActivists rally in support of overdose prevention centers at the State Capitol in Albany ... More »
Environment/ May 17, 2024As the region faces unprecedented flooding, farmers are struggling to make ends meet.Ad PolicyA portrait of Lawrence, whose livelihood has been threatened by the floods. (Kang-Chun Cheng) Every year, it’s typical in E... More »
Society/StudentNation/ May 17, 2024In the classroom, professors taught the importance of the free press, at the same time as the administration stifled the work of student journalists and intimidated them through the NYPD.Ad PolicyA Col... More »