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The Post-Debate Challenge for Harris

Ronald Brownstein The Atlantic
Buoyed by her dominant performance, the Democrat will need to reassure voters on their key economic concerns.

Why Protests Work

Mark Engler and Paul Engler The Forge
Even When Not Everybody Likes Them

Election 2024: A Chess Move, Not a Valentine

Rand Wilson Stansbury Forum
All Americans are impacted by attacks on democracy and can be rallied to work for imperfect Democratic candidates to block authoritarians like Donald Trump. While it’s tempting to cast our votes based on emotion it is too risky.

Slow Change Can Be Radical Change

Rebecca Solnit Literary Hub
Describing the slowness of change is often confused with acceptance of the status quo. It’s really the opposite.

Obsessive Culture War Is a Dead End. Just Ask Ron DeSantis.

Ben Burgis Jacobin
Ron DeSantis went all in on the niche fixations of online right-wing culture warriors. In the process, his failed presidential campaign proved that the Right’s obsessive “anti-wokeness” is a political cul-de-sac.
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