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  • Enough About the White Working Class

    An emerging theme from the media’s analysis of the 2016 election is that the Democrats failed to connect with the white working class voters in the heartlands that voted in large droves for President Trump. That is, Hillary Clinton should have spent more time in the Rust Belt. There has been a borderline obsession with…

  • Screw the Discourse

    For roughly the past six months, I’ve been telling everyone I know to listen to the socialist podcast Chapo Trap House. I’ve done this partially to annoy people, but mostly because it’s great, equal parts incisive and laugh-out-loud hilarious. Many of my more moderate friends—and certainly my conservative ones—will be skeptical. Rapidly increasing partisanship has…

  • United We Oppose, Divided We Govern

    Anyone can tell you that Republicans are on the right and Democrats are on the left. But the left and right of what, exactly? The ubiquitous left-right dichotomy assumes that political parties can be placed along a one-dimensional ideological spectrum. This political fiction underlies most partisan political rhetoric; at the same time, it is becoming…

  • The Democrats’ Problems For 2018

    The 2018 Midterms present the best opportunity for the Democratic Party to take back the House since they lost it in 2010. Trump is a historically unpopular President, history is on the Democrats’ side as the opposing party in a midterm election, and Democratic grassroots activism has skyrocketed. In theory, taking the 24 seats they…

  • On Wonder Woman

    A classmate of mine asked if I would accompany her to see a screening of Wonder Woman. We were studying abroad in Paris, and I was curious as to whether or not the film would be in English. I happily agreed and walked to the theater in anticipation of what I would experience. From the…

  • Gorsuch’s Nomination Faces Retaliation from the Democrats

    This Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that he planned filibuster the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Said Senator Schumer, “After careful deliberation I have concluded that I cannot support Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court.” After careful deliberation indeed. It is hard to imagine a scenario in…

  • Engagement’s Hard. We Still Need It.

    “True diversity is diversity of thought, not di­versity of color. I don’t see color,” conser­vative political commentator Tomi Lahren argued during an interview with Trevor Noah in December 2016. Noah, the liberal host of The Daily Show, replied that “there is nothing wrong with seeing color; it’s how you treat color that’s more important.” This…