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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Wake up, Democrats!
opinion The Supreme Court's decision to hear an abortion case is an ominous signal about the future of reproductive rights — and so much more. Democrats must do something.
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Biden can't avoid Israel-Palestine
opinion The peace process seems futile. Doing nothing could be worse.
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The telling seeds of the 2024 Republican primary
opinion Where does a party go when it won't admit it lost?
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Democrats face a stark choice on redistricting
opinion The new census numbers will make an anti-democratic system even worse
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The death of cities was greatly exaggerated
The Explainer Why the pandemic predictions about urban flight were wrong
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America's foreign policy time bombs
opinion Trump avoided major diplomatic crises that weren't of his own making. Biden likely won't be so lucky.
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Matt Gaetz and the tyranny of the backbencher
opinion A handful of Republican political exhibitionists have driven the news cycle so often in 2021 that you might mistake them for party leaders
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House Democrats' dangerous flirtation with election denial
opinion In Iowa, party leaders are playing a dangerous game they will come to regret
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The GOP's anti-woke cul-de-sac
opinion While Republicans whine about "cancel culture," Democrats are sending Americans checks
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Good job, Biden. Now comes the hard part.
opinion The president caps his enormously successful first weeks in office with the passage of the American Rescue Plan. But getting the rest of his agenda enacted won't be so easy.
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Which states best handled the pandemic? There's no clear answer.
The Explainer Each state took a different approach. None of them were a silver bullet.
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Did the pandemic end globalization?
The Explainer The post-COVID world might be a bit more insular and less integrated than the one that came before
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Republicans are leaving the light on for Trump
opinion The GOP can't repudiate Trump because they know he might come back
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Why Republicans won't convict Trump
opinion They'll stand by their man — even when doing so is bad for democracy
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America's parents are not okay
opinion The brutal truth of pandemic parenting in America
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How ending the filibuster could actually foster bipartisanship
opinion Moderates would be the ultimate winners
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Biden needs a plan B
opinion If unity fails, paralysis should not be an option
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The GOP purge of Trump fails to materialize. Again.
opinion We've heard this story before
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The Democrats' false choice on impeachment
opinion How Democrats can hold a Trump trial and deal with COVID-19
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Two weeks is too long. Remove Trump from office now.
opinion His coup plot ends in tragedy, insurrection, and national humiliation
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2021 might just be incredible
opinion How to make next year the party we deserve
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Baby, it's COVID outside
opinion On Americans' catastrophic impatience this Christmas
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Trump's eye-for-an-eye endgame
opinion Trump does unto Biden what he believes was done unto him
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The looming stimulus deal is a dispiriting harbinger of the endless gridlock to come
opinion This is just a preview of Biden's Washington
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