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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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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Trump face-plants in the homestretch
opinion What the heck is he doing?
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Republicans are on the verge of a spectacular upside-down achievement
opinion It's been almost 130 years since a presidential candidate captured the office back from the other party, brought both houses of Congress with him, and then frittered it all away in four short years
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Trump loses on the merits
opinion His antics didn't overshadow his message, and his message is a bad one
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The clock is ticking on Republicans' Senate advantage
opinion Even without major reforms, they're facing a demographic tsunami
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Democrats need a better counter to 'originalism'
opinion If the Democratic Party can't articulate and sell a legal philosophy to their voters, the progressive project will fail
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President Trump can learn a lot from Mike Pence
opinion He may have lost the debate, but he didn't behave like a maniac
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Trump's illness is reinforcing his central political problem
opinion This is Trump at his worst
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4 plausible election scenarios after Trump's coronavirus diagnosis
opinion What happens next?
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Why Trump's alpha debate strategy will backfire
opinion Is he trying to make himself less popular?
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This is what an American coup looks like
opinion How Trump can (and cannot) steal the election
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Mitch McConnell's most savage move is to back off
opinion If the Senate's Machiavelli wants a long-term conservative majority on the Supreme Court, de-escalation is the smart play
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Why Democrats shouldn't panic about RBG's death
opinion Ginsburg's passing actually creates a trap for the GOP
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The staggering consequences of Trump's coronavirus lies
opinion It's so much worse than politics
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Trump's RNC role is a much bigger mistake than Republicans realize
opinion Letting Trump completely dominate the convention could have consequences for a party that's more popular than he is
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How the Electoral College made America's pandemic response worse
opinion The consequences of Trump's red state favoritism are deadly
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The Supreme Court prepares for the Biden presidency
opinion The chief justice is playing the long game
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This time is different for Trump
opinion The president has, at long last, screwed everything up so badly that he can't recover in time for the election
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