The GOP proposal is good enough to give it a chance, and much better than a continued stalemate.
Reasonable, and unreasonable, state and local roles in immigration enforcement
If American politics were healthier, this wouldn’t be such a controversy.
The Hobbs political tightrope
How does she work with a GOP Legislature that won’t work with her?
Both proponents and opponents misrepresenting the Laken Riley Act
Democrats cease holding immigration enforcement hostage to legalization.
The politics of a protective tariff don’t work for Trump
The costs of a protective tariff are immediate and traceable, while any benefits are long-term and diffuse.
Democrats didn’t have that bad of an election
Given the adverse presidential playing field, Democrats won a lot of races, nationally and in Arizona, that they easily could have lost, and arguably should have.
Ugly Americanism as a foreign policy strategy
Although not yet president, Trump is throwing Truth Social thunderbolts at other countries.
Do bruising defeats mean the end of open primaries as a reform?
Looking at the electoral challenge a little differently.
A big GOP win, but not really a mandate
At both the national and state level, Republicans mostly won seats they should have already held.
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The beginning of the end of U.S. leadership of the free world
A second term for Trump necessitates a recalibration by other democratic capitalist countries regarding their security interests.