David Faris

Contributing Writer

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.

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Opinion

Biden needs a new strategy for Iran

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Opinion

Is the filibuster really in trouble?

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Democrats are about to ruin their plan for electric cars

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Opinion

Political suicide?

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How Newsom ran away with the recall

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Opinion

Will COVID stalk the GOP in 2024?

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Biden's missing path out of the pandemic

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Opinion

Biden's bungled pandemic response

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Opinion

The FDA's sluggish child vaccine timeline

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Opinion

Biden's Delta toolkit

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Opinion

The end of America's post-9/11 delusion

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Biden attempts damage control

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Feature

Democrats' Gavin Newsom recall nightmare

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Opinion

The Democratic Party's self-sabotage

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Opinion

The GOP's 2022 candidate problem

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Opinion

The rural plague

The Consequences of Modernity and a vaccine.

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Opinion

Vaccine refusal and the bargain of modernity

Trump supporters and a young Biden supporter.

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Analysis

The GOP's main voter bloc is shrinking

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McConnell's memo to Breyer

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Opinion

The optimistic case for Democrats

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Opinion

Where are the Trumpghazis?

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Opinion

Biden's missing braggadocio

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Opinion

Democrats' Supreme Court wake-up call

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Opinion

Biden can't avoid Israel-Palestine

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Opinion

The telling seeds of the 2024 Republican primary

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Opinion

Democrats face a stark choice on redistricting

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Analysis

The death of cities was greatly exaggerated

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Opinion

America's foreign policy time bombs

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Opinion

Matt Gaetz and the tyranny of the backbencher

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Opinion

House Democrats' dangerous flirtation with election denial

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Opinion

The GOP's anti-woke cul-de-sac

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Opinion

Good job, Biden. Now comes the hard part.

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Analysis

Which states best handled the pandemic? There's no clear answer.

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Analysis

Did the pandemic end globalization?

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Opinion

Republicans are leaving the light on for Trump

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Opinion

Why Republicans won't convict Trump