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How he lost and where we go from here.

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New polls show that the premature consensus about Trump’s rhetoric was wrong—for now, anyway.

After the general election in November, New York will have one of its most left-wing legislatures in decades.

Trump called supporters who intend to cast only one vote for him “disgracefully low-energy.”

The virus, like bullets, doesn’t care about your little red hat.

Mike Pompeo’s trip to the Middle East and North Africa was a scandalous failure. His Sudan visit demonstrates just how degraded the United States’ foreign policy has become under Donald Trump, and with Pompeo at the helm of the State Department.

The “essential workers” picking our food are facing fires, heat waves, and the pandemic, all at once. California’s farmworkers, many undocumented, and many without a choice, have been working through a summer of increasingly brutal conditions.

Trump’s election theme is that Americans won’t be safe in a Biden presidency. The opposite is true. Americans won’t be safe as long as a white supremacist president is leading a movement of bigots to incite a civil war

No one’s paying much attention to one chunk of the electorate that could prove decisive in 2020. To recognize the other swing voter is to decenter the white moderate in the body politic—where she and especially he has been positioned.