Latest articles by David Faris
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Biden fails to explain Kabul chaos
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Democrats' Gavin Newsom recall nightmare
feature What's unfolding in California is a national embarrassment
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Democratic leaders should think twice before crushing progressive primary challenges
opinion Dividing the left is a GOP dream. Democrats shouldn't help it come true.
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The fringe candidates that could undermine the GOP's 2022 Senate chances
opinion The second coming of Todd Akin and Christine O'Donnell?
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The rural plague
opinion Red America’s infuriating vaccine refusal is making America's culture chasm even wider
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Vaccine refusal and the bargain of modernity
opinion The marvels of modern life require us to trust things we don't understand. But that trust can be lost.
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The GOP's main voter bloc is shrinking
The Explainer The electorate is shifting — and not in the Republican Party's favor
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Stephen Breyer needs to retire. Now.
Talking Point Mitch McConnell all but confirmed his absolutist position
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The optimistic case for Democrats in 2022 and 2024
opinion The party is right to be alarmed. But despair is premature.
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Where are the Trumpghazis?
opinion Investigating the Trump administration's misdeeds would be good for democracy — and Democrats
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Biden needs some braggadocio
opinion A little boasting could go a long way to take back the national narrative
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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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