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Mamdani Probably Won't Be Mayor Jul. 01, 2025
Zohran Mamdani seemed to hit the political jackpot in besting former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in t... Read More
What Trump Does for Democracy Sep. 04, 2023
Pauline Kael knew she wasn't a representative American. The onetime New Yorker film critic is famous... Read More
Poll of Young Americans Gives Reasons for Despair ... and Hope Apr. 26, 2023
A generational shift at the top of America's political system is inevitable before the end of the de... Read More
Partisan Strife Produces High Voter Turnout -- and No Big Boost for Either Party Feb. 26, 2021
The last decade has seen a boom in voter turnout — for both parties. Between the 2012 and 2020... Read More
Republican Party Future Depends on More Black, Brown Voters Nov. 25, 2020
BY STAR PARKER RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2020 Republican Party Future Depends on More Black,... Read More
The Republican Wing of the Democratic Party Nov. 19, 2020
The Democrats' most interesting conflict isn't moderates versus the left. It's the never-Trump Repub... Read More
What We've Learned So Far Nov. 05, 2020
It's not surprising that the presidential election between President Donald Trump and Democratic nom... Read More
Moving Forward During the COVID Crisis Jun. 24, 2020
In February and March primary elections, a cabal of backroom political geniuses rushed out a coordin... Read More
Choosing the Wrong Opponent May. 23, 2020
It is a common, if not especially honorable, practice in American politics for a candidate and her c... Read More
So Far, Youth Vote Is a Flop, Again Mar. 13, 2020
Young people could change this country. They have the numbers. In 2016, Americans aged 18 to 35 were... Read More
Lemming Complex: The Bernie Bros Demand That the Democrats Jump off a Cliff Feb. 18, 2020
Bernie Sanders is as principled a major presidential candidate as we have seen. He has had the coura... Read More
Another Year of the Interloper? Feb. 14, 2020
It's a familiar plotline. An interloper runs for a party's presidential nomination and, with an anti... Read More
Tone-Deaf Democrats Risk Handing Western Pennsylvania to Trump Jan. 07, 2020
PITTSBURGH — Darrin Kelly, president of the powerful Allegheny-Fayette County Central Labor Co... Read More
Necessary Noise Nov. 13, 2019
American voters are motivated by a fever pitch. That's the message from last week's elections. The ... Read More
Rick Scott Chased the Hispanic Vote and Got It Jan. 15, 2019
Nine years ago Rick Scott, then a Florida businessman, sat down with a group of self-described jaded... Read More
Trump Faces a Long Winter With a Blue House Nov. 14, 2018
WASHINGTON — The 2018 midterm elections verdict goes something like this: Paint the People's H... Read More
Record Voter Turnout -- but We Can Do Even Better Nov. 10, 2018
Phew. The midterm elections are over! You voted, right? Yes? Great. For those who did not join the ... Read More
Smaller Government Equals Calmer Tempers Nov. 01, 2018
The midterm elections are less than a week away, and predictions are changing daily. Nate Silver at ... Read More
Trump Draws Out 14 Million New Republican Voters Mar. 23, 2016
Love him or hate him — and mostly they love him — Donald Trump's candidacy will have inc... Read More
The Power of 3,607 Jun. 13, 2014
That's how many people it took to bring down House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, doom immigration ref... Read More
