Following last week’s gubernatorial wins, Democrats are claiming momentum going into the 2026 elections. Yet this optimism ignores stubborn realities:…
Bob Capano makes an earnest and considerate point in his recent essay, “Trump’s Right: Nuke the Filibuster,” that the Senate…
Sunday night, the inevitable finally happened and the Senate Democrats finally cracked. After more than 40 days of pointless filibustering,…
The headlines were predictable. In the wake of the 2025 election here’s a sampling: The New York Times: “Republicans Point…
Why are people surprised? Zohran Mamdani is an inevitability. He’s the Democrats’ covert ideology being made overt and incarnate. He…
In decades of teaching sociology in colleges, I have explained to students that the most important factors shaping societies are…
In recent years, it has become an unfortunate bipartisan article of faith that the government — and not individuals, nor…
Iowa should not abandon its primary system for a complicated, multiple-choice voting process that would blur party lines and weaken…
