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5 days ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | John Halpin |Ruy Teixeira |Michael Baharaeen
đ âProgress Depends on Reversing the Left's Working-Class Woes: Thereâs no forging a durable progressive coalition without winning back blue-collar workers,â by Jared Abbott. Our friends at the Center for Working-Class Politics put out a banger of a post a few weeks ago.
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1 week ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Michael Baharaeen
The economy has long been one of Donald Trump’s biggest strengths as president. During his first term, many Americans viewed his stewardship of the economy highly favorably. At one point, fully 63 percent of Americans approved of his economic performance, including even one-quarter of Democrats.
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1 week ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Michael Baharaeen |Nate Moore
What a year the last month has been. President Donald Trump has continued the hot start to his second term by boosting his anti-illegal-immigration efforts and moving forward with new tariffs. The former has received support from both Republicans and voters more broadly, but the impact of his brewing trade war is becoming almost all anyone can talk about—and possibly the reason his initially high favorability is starting to slip. More and that and much else below.
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2 weeks ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Michael Baharaeen
As Trump’s aggressive start to his second term continues unabated, many Democratic voters have begun imploring their party to punch back. Last month, several party lawmakers received an earful from angry constituents at their town hall meetings.
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2 weeks ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Ruy Teixeira |Michael Baharaeen |John Halpin
ūüďä "Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?" by Gordon Hanson and Enrico Moretti. Very interesting National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) paper with lots of good data to chew over. We examine changes in the spatial distribution of good jobs across US commuting zones over 1980-2000 and 2000-2021. We define good jobs as those in industries in which full-time workers attain high wages, accounting for individual and regional characteristics.
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3 weeks ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Michael Baharaeen
For those of us who study American politics, it’s always a treat when David Shor pops up to offer his insights on the latest election. Shor is a Democratic data analyst who normally stays behind the scenes. In the last election, he helped run a super PAC backing Kamala Harris presidential campaign. Shor, a self-styled socialist, is known for speaking tough truths to Democrats about the state of their party.
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1 month ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Michael Baharaeen
Since the Democrats’ loss last November, the party and its allies have spent months in heated debates about their future. Though it appeared at first that some members had little appetite for changing course, Democrats’ own voters may eventually force their hand. Recent polling has shown that a near majority (48 percent) of them want the party to moderate moving forward, even on some issues that have historically been third rails in their coalition.
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1 month ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Michael Baharaeen
There is perhaps no set of issues more closely tied to America’s culture wars than those related to “gender identity.” The speed with which even the concept became a part of the cultural zeitgeist is remarkable. Barely over a decade ago, these issues were nearly nonexistent in the country’s collective consciousness. Today, they’re seemingly everywhere: from left to right, and from schools to the White House.
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1 month ago | 
liberalpatriot.com | Michael Baharaeen
Welcome to the first edition of TLP’s monthly politics digest. We know that the world of government and politics is a fast-moving and often complex beast. To help navigate this landscape, we’ll be putting together a monthly rundown of the latest developments in the world of American politics. We hope to arm readers with useful knowledge and data points for understanding what’s going on in the government. “We’ve seen this movie before.
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1 month ago | 
thephiladelphiacitizen.org | Yoni Appelbaum |Michael Baharaeen |Nick Paumgarten
National news these days is overwhelming. It comes out fast. It changes by the hour. It often raises more questions than it answers. And, depending on where you’re getting your news, it does little more than reinforce our biases. This is bad — for our well-being, our ability to engage, and our democracy. That’s why, in late February, Citizen Co-founder Larry Platt offered our readers a path through the fog:You are your own editor these days.
