Culture
Weekend Edition: Something new about this version of the same old violence?
The ways that our accelerating and evolving political violence feels familiar and the subtle ways it feels new are clues to our history and to a different future.
Democracy
Weekend Edition: Redistricting or realignment?
The ongoing argument over mid-census redistricting as a regular political strategy may have irreversible consequences well-beyond the short-term strategic gains both Republicans and Democrats are seeking.
Politics
More analysis on what happened in 2024 that might point to why
The how matters. Understanding how the electorate changed matters, but reflecting and embracing the deeper why's is the better guide for how to reimagine the Democratic Party and our campaigns.
Weekend Edition: The Disenchanted, the Misenchanted, and the Re-enchantment of America
How we think about what's not working in our civic life might offer a very different long-term path to something better even while the short-term demands we live in and confront our unrelentingly dysfunctional present as directly as we can.
Politics
Weekend Edition: I do not think this word means what you think it means...
What does "moderate" or a "Moderate" or "to moderate" really mean in American civic life? Even if we could figure out which one means what, I don't think it's the guide we need.
Culture
Even more abundant
Let's start with the assumptions about the smallness of a zero-sum mindset and the ambition of abundance for everyone ... and then keep going.
Politics
Our search for leadership
How we look for leadership matters. Replacing Sen. Schumer as the Senate minority leader might be warranted (even needed) but isn't the right answer to the right question we should be asking about the leadership we need right now.
Democracy
The wisdom of Octavia Butler we need right now
Why continuing to try to predict the future in a moment of impossibly heavy uncertainty might be one of our keys to changing course.
Culture
Party and ideology in 2025
Who does the hyperpolarized, hyperpartisan narrative in American politics really benefit? And is it getting in our way of something better...
Weekend Edition: How we become 130M Democrats
The work of party building is always ongoing, but emerging from our current dysfunction to build something new requires a deep commitment to transform a party that has been stuck for...a while.
Newsletter
Weekend Edition: 130M Democrats
The cracks are the map. Passive. Disconnected. Condescending. Exclusionary. Neoliberal. All solvable if we go straight at each of these perceptions or failures of the Democratic Party.
Ready for another way
The Democratic Party has been in the wilderness for a long time now. Perhaps the consequences are stark enough, the excuses flimsy enough that we can finally embrace real transformation.