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Trump is only the latest to exploit it. A new path forward must address the structures that sustain it.
Trump’s secret to success is that he expresses his base’s deep sense of alienation and grievance—cultural and social far more than economic.
America's voting technologies are gravely inefficient, but solutions are less complicated than many politicians have indicated.
Support for pro-Trump Republicans remains driven by relatively well-off whites in fast-growing, rapidly diversifying suburbs—not by economic despair in rural America.
The truth about Obama’s victory wasn’t in the papers.
The framers intended Congress to be “dependent upon the People alone,” but the private funding of public campaigns has bred within Congress a conflicting dependency.
If women’s suffrage was the battle of the twentieth century, women’s representation will be the battle of the twenty-first.
It's time to rewrite the narrative of “Trump Country.” Rural places weren't always red, and many are turning increasingly blue.
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