Subterms
EJ Dionne and Eitan Hersh offer complementary visions of how Democrats can achieve results by putting down their smartphones and taking real action Elizabeth Warren casts a shadow after a campaign Canvass Kick Off in Columbia, South Carolina in February. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters At what author EJ Dionne Jr accurately identifies as a “Code Red” […] More
‘What it means to be an American’: Abraham Lincoln and a nation divided Amid a new crisis, Ted Widmer’s book on the 16th president’s journey to Washington in 1861 may prove timely indeed Abraham Lincoln in a portrait by Matthew Brady, taken in December 1861. Photograph: Bettmann Archive Ted Widmer has published a book about […] More
The ABC News White House correspondent first met the 45th president in tabloid New York. His book is a cautionary tale Donald Trump speaks at a coronavirus briefing at the White House. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock At a White House coronavirus briefing late last month, Donald Trump became visibly annoyed. Jonathan Karl, ABC’s chief White House correspondent, […] More
Interview David Smith in Washington Interview ‘It’s an exhausting story’: Jonathan Karl on his up-close view of Trump David Smith in Washington ABC’s chief White House correspondent on his new book Front Row at the Trump Show, fake news, coronavirus and why the Trump presidency is a matter of life and death Donald Trump speaks […] More
David Plouffe went to the White House with Obama then predicted a Clinton victory. Has he learned from that reverse? Have we? On Tuesday, Joe Biden and his juggernaut left Bernie Sanders’ dream in tatters. The former vice-president swept primaries in Arizona, Florida and Illinois. Fact: Sanders looks a lot less appealing without Hillary Clinton […] More
A timely, clever analysis of why Shakespeare continues to cast a spell over American politics The readiness is all. Ever since president John Adams rewrote a passage from Henry V to demonstrate how a foreign power might conspire to place a more pliable president in the White House, Shakespeare’s plays have been at the heart […] More
With help from a vast evangelical network and data on almost the entire US voting population, the Christian right may have found the boost it needed By his own account, Bill Dallas grew up in an unhappy household. His mother had been sexually abused by her father and had her first pregnancy aged 17. Dallas’s […] More
The longtime Republican aide seems to want back in – she might want to rethink her ideas on the civil war and slavery first Kathleen Troia McFarland, better known as KT, was a deputy national security adviser to Donald Trump between January and May 2017. After she was shoved out the door by HR McMaster, […] More
