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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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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The Democrats' Get-Out-of-Manhattan Project
opinion Why liberal billionaires need to entice Democrats to move to South Dakota
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Americans are choosing death over deprivation
opinion COVID-19 showed us that our country is full of selfish jerks
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Will Democrats stand up for democracy?
opinion Crossing your fingers and hoping the Trump coup will go away is not a strategy
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Republicans avow the absurd
opinion The party is treating Trump like an untouchable dictator
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Was Trump ever as unpopular as we thought?
opinion If Trump's approval rating has been as off as election polling, it would mean a big rethinking of the last four years
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The fate of democracy rests with a handful of Republicans
opinion There are no mystical "guardrails" holding us up
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A Biden presidency might essentially be over before it can begin
opinion The other nightmare scenario is coming true
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Democrats' first priority
opinion It's time to fix voting in America
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Is this the year the New South turns blue?
opinion The Republican fortress is cracking
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