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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Is Beijing paying attention to Russia's faceplant in Ukraine?
opinion Russia's bungled invasion should have China rethinking its reunification ambitions
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What if we'd known COVID would last 2 years?
opinion The follies and foibles of life in the pandemic
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Why the Ukraine crisis is being treated differently than Yemen or Syria
opinion Liberal internationalism gets its wake-up call
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Biden sounds a note of COVID optimism, but was it enough?
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Kick Russia off the U.N. Security Council!
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Will Putin pay for a limited war?
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The unexpectedly dark underside of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
opinion Has the show always been this grim?
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What do the players really want in the MLB standoff?
opinion And are they asking for the impossible?
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Where the U.S. and Russia originally went wrong on Ukraine
opinion A crisis three decades in the making
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Station Eleven and the sweetness of life on Earth
opinion The apocalypse show, which aired its finale Thursday, is strangely and beautifully hopeful
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15 movies to watch in 2022
opinion Lights. Mask. Popcorn. Action.
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A new theory of rising college costs
opinion Tuition would be lower if our society were stronger
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Succession's lack of a satisfying resolution might be the whole point
opinion Succession is a Sisyphus fable in which you root for the boulder
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No, we can't just 'vaccinate the world'
opinion Vaccinating Africa won't stop the next Omicron
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The distinctly American catharsis of the Thanksgiving movie
opinion Dysfunction, anxiety, and 1 big bird
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What is America's COVID endgame?
opinion With cases in retreat and vaccines for children imminent, when can we breathe?
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The madness of expanding NATO
opinion This is a door the Biden administration ought to keep closed
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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 death of cities was greatly exaggerated
The Explainer Why the pandemic predictions about urban flight were wrong
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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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America's parents are not okay
opinion The brutal truth of pandemic parenting in America
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Baby, it's COVID outside
opinion On Americans' catastrophic impatience this Christmas
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Coronavirus' looming psychological crisis
The Explainer On the coming epidemic of despair
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Trump is setting up a massive nuclear crisis with Iran
opinion Forget about deterrence. Trump has broken all three cardinal rules about avoiding war.
By David Faris Published
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