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How Trump is losing his base

Talking to working-class and rural voters shows the deep health care crisis in America — and trouble for Trump’s re-election

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'This time, I predict Trump will lose'

An interview with Allan Lichtman — one of the few forecasters who predicted the victory of Donald Trump in 2016

By Allan Lichtman

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The resurgence of the US paramilitary right

Right-wing paramilitary groups have a long tradition in the US. But never has the movement been so visible — and so violent

By Thomas Grumke

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This is how Biden should approach the Latino vote

Some ways of talking about race and class are more effective politically. And not just with Hispanics

By Ian Haney Lopez and Tory Gavito

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The ‘bazooka’: Modern Monetary Theory in action

Large-scale injections of money to bring economies out of the coronavirus coma have vindicated Modern Monetary Theory

By Peter Bofinger

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Trump’s executive orders are covering his left and right flanks

Worringly, Trump's is moving further left to keep Americans from losing their homes during a crisis than Obama did

By Branko Marcetic

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Where did Trumpism come from?

The best way to understand the deep problems facing US democracy is to look at the Republicans' steady march to the right

By Sheri Berman

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Trump and the politics of ‘mean world’

The Republican convention was a four-day cavalcade of the mean world alarmism thriving on fear

By David Brooks

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Why Biden needs a landslide just to win

Only a lopsided show of force would overcome undelivered mail, closed polling sites and Trump’s schemes

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Beirut’s blast is a warning for America

Many Lebanese are starved for a government that represents the common good. The same is true for America

By Thomas L. Friedman