Ilyse Hogue

Dec 10, 2024 | democracyjournal.org | Patrick Gaspard |Heather McGhee |Fernand R. Amandi |Ilyse Hogue

By The Editors  from Winter 2025, No. 75 – 1 MIN READ Donald Trump won. What now? Here at Democracy, that’s the question that hasn’t left our minds since November 6. So we asked some of the smartest thinkers and political analysts we know to examine the different facets of our new reality: Why did our warnings about democracy fall short? Why didn’t abortion rights prove decisive?

Nov 28, 2024 | offmessage.net | Brian Beutler |Ilyse Hogue

Hello readers. I hope you’ll all have a restful holiday, but not so restful that you skip this newsletter. Fifteen questions and answers for the 15 days of Thanksgiving. Ben W: Is the identity politics issue really something Democrats do? Or is it something Republicans, pundits and supposed centrists who claims they’re “classical liberals” need to believe Dems do because it grants them some power over the party’s online brand? I often feel like it’s the latter.

Nov 26, 2024 | thebulwark.com | Ilyse Hogue

FIVE YEARS BEFORE ALYSSA MILANO tweeted the phrase “#metoo” and sparked a deluge of digital disclosures of sexual assault, a small film made a huge splash. The Invisible War, premiering at Sundance Film Festival in 2012, exposed a pervasive culture of rape in the miliatry. Two days after viewing the film, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced an aggressive revamp of Defense Department policies. Congress held hearings on the topic.

Nov 22, 2024 | democracyjournal.org | Ilyse Hogue

We just had the first presidential election since the Dobbs decision erased the basic rights granted to women by Roe v. Wade. Now we face not only a calamity, but a mystery: How did the election that Democrats were going to win with a surge of support from women become the election Republicans won with a surge of support from men?

Aug 28, 2024 | newamerica.org | Ilyse Hogue

Ilyse Hogue wrote for The Bulwark on the DNC and how the Harris campaign is redefining masculinity. With the notable exception of Bill Clinton’s elections in 1992 and 1996, white men have consistently voted Republican since the 1960s, when civil rights, gay rights, and women’s rights movements began to shake up the long-established social pecking order. But recently, a new trend emerged: Democrats began hemorrhaging Latino men and African American men.