New Column: The Tim Walz Pick: Caving to the Left? No. Reaching into the Heartland newrepublic.com/article/184612… Follow The New Republic

Man, this Tressie McMillan Cottom piece is just bursting with original and important insights that explain the Harris phenomenon (and it IS a phenomenon, not just a candidacy). So well done. nytimes.com/2024/08/11/opi…

New Column: Donald Trump Is Freaked Out in Ways He Never Imagined Were Possible. He's really losing it. newrepublic.com/article/184754… Follow The New Republic

New Column: Harris Is Sailing, Trump Is Flailing, and the Right Is Bailing. Wow. newrepublic.com/article/184984… Follow The New Republic

New Column: Women Stole the Show on Night One of the Democratic Convention. An amazing night! newrepublic.com/article/185042… Follow The New Republic

READ Nina Burleigh’s penetrating review of THE LONGEST CON. She goes deep The New Republic. newrepublic.com/article/184442…

Are they going to have to come up with a song for every state?

New Column: The Democrats Are Destroying the Republicans at Their Own Game. Suddenly, Democratic messaging doesn't suck. Far from it! newrepublic.com/article/185152… Follow The New Republic

what a badass

New Column: The Female Obama? No. Kamala Harris Is More Than That. Like a lot of people, I guess I wasn't paying attention when Kamala Harris got really really good at politics. Wow. newrepublic.com/article/185222… Follow The New Republic

New Column: Finally, the Democrats Have Found Trump’s Achilles Heel: Ridicule Him. He aches to feared. He hates to be mocked. newrepublic.com/article/185270… Follow The New Republic

Prosecutor Jack Smith on Monday appealed Judge Aileen Cannon’s dismissal of the Mar-a-Lago case. trib.al/1MkRJ7e

The Right’s Dystopian Vision for America: Machine Guns For All. Chilling. Machine guns have been all but banned since the 1930s. No longer, sez Kansas judge. How long before Scotus upholds this crazy decision? newrepublic.com/article/185317… Follow The New Republic

Donald Trump Has Totally Jumped the Shark. He loves to think of himself as an act. Well, the act is old. Really old. newrepublic.com/post/185499/do… Follow The New Republic

I leap to join the chorus of people praising Brian Lamb of CSPAN today. He first had me on in (I think) 1992 when I was a Village Voice reporter. He is a gentleman and a visionary and a small-d democrat of the first order. This country owes him an enormous debt of gratitude.

Hamas Murdered Them. Benjamin Netanyahu Abandoned Them. From the great Gershom Gorenberg 🟣 for the The New Republic newrepublic.com/article/185524… Follow The New Republic

New Column: The Media Are About to Help Trump Fail His Way Back to the White House. Some really insane stuff going on. newrepublic.com/article/185528… Follow The New Republic

This is pretty darn exciting for me! Please watch TCM Friday night 9/6 at 8 pm! And thank you Ben Mankiewicz

Such an honor to do this!!

New Column: Trump Serves Up a Word Salad That <i>The New York Times</i> All But Ignores. Here's why reporters gloss over his incoherence--and why they shouldn't. newrepublic.com/post/185669/tr… Follow The New Republic