One talks of an “FDR-size presidency,” the other works to calm Wall Street nerves. Which one will create the post-pandemic future?

On watching a presidential election through the grainy medium of TV

There’s no inoculation for what this election season might do to the vital science of ending the pandemic.

New polls show that the premature consensus about Trump’s rhetoric was wrong—for now, anyway.

Sure, Donald Trump is harnessing Richard Nixon’s law and order rhetoric, but that doesn’t mean it will work.

A well-funded Democratic group is wooing former union members whom liberals have long ignored.

The falling-out says a lot about the state of conservative media in 2020—and may herald some good news for Joe Biden.

The president’s reelection campaign is now an obsessive exercise in psychological projection.

The work of organizing a politically legible coalition of nonvoters is functionally the same as what’s needed for the left to win elections.

In the most important election of our lifetime, Joe Biden will have to risk everything.

For the past week, the president has successfully reframed the election as a debate over looting and political violence.

Democrats’ insistence on redeeming pre-Trump Republicans will corrupt the party’s agenda and spoil the chance for real social reform.

They’ve been trying to paint themselves as the party of inclusion, but Trump’s speech doubled down on the politics of fear.

A rambling convention speech underlined the core of his campaign: He needs violence and destruction to win reelection.

Voters need to see the Democratic nominee out in the world, not hiding behind musicians who were popular a half-century ago.

The Republican critique of misrule in American cities has some merit, and it’s not clear that Joe Biden’s party is prepared to meet the need.

Up is down, the coronavirus pandemic is over, and Donald Trump is normal.

The president sees suburban America as a bastion of white affluence—an outdated view that could cost him the election.

The race for a cure has put a spotlight on corporate control over medical research. Under a Democratic administration, it doesn’t have to be that way.

Biden says we don’t need radical ideas like Medicare for All to fix our broken system. But his more modest reforms may already be dead on arrival.