David Faris
David Faris is an associate professor of political science at Roosevelt University and the author of It's Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics. He is a frequent contributor to Informed Comment, and his work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and Indy Week.
Latest articles by David Faris
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What we learned from the races in South Carolina, Nevada, Maine, North Dakota, and Texas
Speed Read Tuesday's elections shed new light on evolving fault lines in both parties
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What's at stake in France's parliamentary elections?
Speed Read Voters will decide the fate of President Emmanuel Macron's agenda
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How far can states go in regulating guns in the aftermath of Uvalde?
Speed Read The legal landscape surrounding state and national efforts to restrict firearms in the United States may soon be shifting following another high-profile mass shooting.
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Are you going to get relief from your student loans?
Speed Read Everything you need to know about the Biden administration’s loan forgiveness plans
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Understanding the results of the critical Pennsylvania primaries
Speed Read Everything you need to know about Tuesday's outcomes in the Keystone State
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A final dispatch of American political decline
opinion Reflecting on 6 years of living and writing in interesting times
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Ozark finally acknowledges its victims in its brilliant final season
opinion Not since 'The Americans' has a series grappled this seriously with the lives ruined by its antiheroes
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The case for exiling Manchin and Sinema from the Democratic Party
opinion Yes, even if it means forfeiting Senate control
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Countdown to the Democrats' doomsday
opinion Can the GOP win a filibuster-proof trifecta in the next three years?
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Democrats could still win in November. No, really.
opinion Their poll numbers are awful. But there's a path to midterms victory.
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Eventually, our nuclear luck will run out
opinion Putin might not use nukes. But someday, someone will.
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Is Beijing paying attention to Russia's faceplant in Ukraine?
opinion Russia's bungled invasion should have China rethinking its reunification ambitions
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What if we'd known COVID would last 2 years?
opinion The follies and foibles of life in the pandemic
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Why the Ukraine crisis is being treated differently than Yemen or Syria
opinion Liberal internationalism gets its wake-up call
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Biden sounds a note of COVID optimism, but was it enough?
Talking Point
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Kick Russia off the U.N. Security Council!
Talking Point
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Will Putin pay for a limited war?
Talking Point
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The strategic folly of a Russian invasion of Ukraine
opinion Putin might conquer Ukraine, but he won't win this war
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The unexpectedly dark underside of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
opinion Has the show always been this grim?
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Midterms in hostile territory
opinion What 2 instructive out-party races can tell us about the 2022 elections
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What do the players really want in the MLB standoff?
opinion And are they asking for the impossible?
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Republicans' love of gerrymandering has come back to bite them
opinion A rare own-goal for the GOP
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Where the U.S. and Russia originally went wrong on Ukraine
opinion A crisis three decades in the making
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The futility of Biden's 1st year
opinion Squandered promise in a presidency that was supposed to be transformational
By David Faris Published
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