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
-
Trump's perilous delusions about Tehran
opinion Because he doesn't want full-on war with Iran, Trump thinks he can engage in any insane provocation he likes without triggering one. Sooner or later, he's going to run out of luck.
By David Faris Published
opinion -
Donald Trump and the Derp State
opinion How Trump's band of dirty tricksters skirted the foreign policy apparatus and unwittingly brought his presidency to the brink
By David Faris Published
opinion -
Rashida Tlaib said something extraordinary about Israel. Then Republicans perverted it.
opinion On the smearing of the most prominent Palestinian-American in the country
By David Faris Last updated
opinion -
Is this Trump crisis different?
opinion When it comes to Trump and foreign policy, ours is a false sense of security
By David Faris Published
opinion -
Is baseball headed for a disastrous strike?
The Explainer Free agency is in the middle of a crisis
By David Faris Published
The Explainer -
Why Trump firing Mueller would be pointless
feature No amount of presidential theatrics can prevent the truth from coming out
By David Faris Last updated
feature -
Cancel the All-Star Game
opinion Baseball's Midsummer Classic is a worthless relic. It's time to put it out of its misery.
By David Faris Last updated
opinion -
The uncertainty, fear, and hope of the Trump-Kim summit
opinion What can we expect from this historic meeting?
By David Faris Published
opinion -
The wretched state of Florida baseball
The Explainer The Miami Marlins and Tampa Bay Rays are taking tanking to new lows
By David Faris Published
The Explainer -
Trump's Syrian whiplash
The Explainer How can the president lurch from recommending a precipitous withdrawal from Syria to, as seems likely, ordering another military strike on Assad?
By David Faris Published
The Explainer -
Breaking baseball
opinion The big league's big-city bias is wrecking America's national pastime
By David Faris Published
opinion -
Trump's bizarre obeisance to Saudi Arabia
opinion The president's Mideast policy seems to be little more than Tehran is bad, Riyadh is good, and Jared should deal with it
By David Faris Published
opinion -
The wild card game is killing baseball
feature Baseball teams aren't even battling for wild card spots anymore. That's a problem.
By David Faris Published
feature -
How the wild card game broke baseball
The Explainer Baseball teams aren't even battling for wild card spots anymore. That's a problem.
By David Faris Last updated
The Explainer -
The myth of the global populist wave
opinion Actually, the center has held
By David Faris Published
opinion -
Why chemical weapons shouldn't be America's red line in Syria
opinion America continues to base its Syria decision-making on the kinds of weapons used to kill people, rather than the fact of their being killed in the first place
By David Faris Published
opinion -
How the world failed Syria
opinion If the Syria crisis is a stress test of the international community's ability to respond capably to a major crisis, it has failed
By David Faris Published
opinion