Recent radio interview segment with me about the "Obama Reboot" on FOR YOUR EARS ONLY.
Out of power and out of ideas. That’s where Democrats are today, and that’s where they were in the late 1980s when Al From co-founded the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), which brought Democrats back from the dead on the...
If a Democrat wins the White House in 2020, Joe Biden thinks Mitch McConnell will have an “epiphany” and work across party lines to solve the country’s problems. Other Democratic candidates have scoffed at that idea,...
Every presidential election changes the course of history. To be sure, not all elections are equally consequential. But every presidential election — even those that might appear to revolve around trivial matters — has the potential to radically transform...
Democrats are playing catch-up as Rep. Tim Ryan makes it a close race for the open U.S. Senate seat from Ohio—with little help from his party. Republicans have put some $40 million into ads for Hillbilly Elegy author J.D....
Republicans have been slow to champion women’s issues, but then along came Ivanka, and as with all things Trump the party has found a lot to like about programs they once cast aside as nanny state indulgence or wasteful foreign...
Stan Greenberg was still fuming 15 days after the election. He used words like “political malpractice” and “incompetent” to express his puzzlement at the outcome. “How could they lose Michigan with 10,000 votes!” he exclaimed in an interview, and...
For those of you who missed it, listen to my recent interview on the Costa Report here.
Several Democrats slated for jobs in the West Wing if Hillary Clinton had won the election are in limbo now, coming to terms with their regrets and trying to figure out what to do next in Donald Trump’s strange...

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