Month: February 2015

We Could Fix Congress If…

In digesting Lee Drutman and Steven Teles’s article in the new issue of the Washington Monthly, I came across the same old familiar difficulty. It’s pretty easy to identify problems, but it’s hard to convince...

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Rahm’s Enemies

Here’s a bulk-mail excerpt from my old boss, Jim Dean. In the weeks ahead, Democracy for America — alongside our friends at United Working Families, MoveOn, and the Chicago Teachers Union — will go all in to...

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Gaming the 2016 Presidential Election

I have two very different takes on Hillary Clinton’s prospects of winning the 2016 presidential election. One side sees her as potentially vulnerable but most likely to win decisively, possibly realigning the Latino vote...

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Rahm Gets Humbled in Chicago

Despite endorsing him, the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune is positively giddy that Rahm Emanuel failed to win an outright majority in his reelection effort and is now forced to defend his mayoralty in an April runoff....

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