Perry Bacon

It’s a rare area with surprising bipartisan and cross-ideological coalitions that might continue even under Trump.

He will probably be even more extreme, radical and cruel in his second term than he was in his first.

Both parties have squandered opportunities that might have put them significantly ahead.

The value of independence can be seen in Nebraska — and the struggles of Democrats and Republicans elsewhere.

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The two groups always fare better economically under a Democratic president

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Why hasn’t the U.S. constrained Israel in any real way? Because, in my view, it doesn’t really want to.

“The Message,” Ta-Nehisi Coates’s first major examination of politics in the Biden era, lives up to the hype.

This election is about what kinds of people and actions should be considered normal and acceptable in this country.