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John Kerry
past is prologue
Nov. 12, 2024
Democrats Were Crushed in 2004, Too. It Didn’t Last Long. Losing to George W. Bush was a lot like losing to Donald Trump a second time, with predictions that the Republicans were the true majority party.
early and often
Aug. 8, 2024
Why the Swiftboating of Tim Walz Won’t Work The attacks on Walz’s military service are weak tea. And they’re being vigorously contested, not ignored like the attacks on John Kerry in 2004.
early and often
July 25, 2024
How Kamala Harris Can Fight the ‘Too Liberal’ Label The veep should learn from John Kerry and not put too much emphasis on her reputation as a tough prosecutor.
early and often
Feb. 22, 2024
The Swiftboater Coming for Biden With co-pilot Susie Wiles, Chris LaCivita has brought discipline to the Trump campaign. Is that enough to win?
catholicism
Nov. 17, 2021
Bishops Cave on Denying Communion to Pro-Choice Politicians Like Biden After Pope Francis repeatedly warned conservative bishops against politically weaponizing the sacrament of the Eucharist, they took the hint.
The New Politics of Climate Hyperbole Are the world’s leaders talking a big game on climate because they want to take action, or because they don’t?
9/11: 20 years later
Sept. 6, 2021
What 9/11 Did to the Democratic Party To this day, Democrats struggle with the fear of looking weak.
Democrats Can’t Win the Culture War With Silence Changing the subject to poll-tested economic policy issues has never dispelled Republican cultural smears in the past. It won’t now, either.
contested election
Dec. 30, 2020
Hawley to Trigger Congressional Vote on Trump’s Election Coup The circus will come to Congress on January 6, but the man at center ring is Mike Pence, who will preside over a joint session to certify electors.
No, Congress Won’t Help Trump Overturn the Election Alabama congressman Mo Brooks’s last-ditch effort to protest the electoral vote count won’t amount to much.
vision 2020
Nov. 11, 2020
Biden’s Popular-Vote Win Is Beginning to Look More Impressive Percentage-wise, he did better than any Democrat not named Obama in a half century.
the next act
Oct. 23, 2020
Here’s Who Biden Is Considering for Top Jobs in His Administration He still needs to win, of course. But campaign documents and sources close to Biden suggest how the cabinet could take shape.
poll position
Sept. 14, 2020
50 Days Out, Biden Doing Better in Polls Than Clinton, Obama, or Kerry The only candidate to overcome as big a disadvantage as Trump faces now is Obama in 2008, and all hell broke loose that fall.
democratic national convention
Aug. 19, 2020
Jill Biden Promises Joe Can End Presidential Empathy Deficit In her DNC speech, Jill Biden portrayed her husband as a man blessed with the qualities Trump most conspicuously lacks.
Team Trump Goes Negative on Biden Early and Heavily Trump needs to make this a “contrast” election rather than a referendum on his presidency, fast.
The State of the Presidential Race, Six Months Before Election Day Recent presidential elections show the eventual winner ahead at this point, except for Trump himself in 2016.
John Kerry Denies Report He Is Considering Run Against Bernie Sanders The Biden surrogate used some choice language to deny a report in which he was overheard saying he may ponder a 2020 run if Sanders’s rise continues.
vision 2020
Dec. 24, 2019
Does Joe Biden’s Catholicism Matter? If elected, Biden would become just the second Catholic president. But his faith probably won’t greatly affect the odds he will win.
vision 2020
Nov. 22, 2019
Getting Hot Late Is Usually the Key to Winning Iowa A good organization and momentum are both key to an Iowa caucus win, but this year there are signs of potential late shifts.
Maybe Democrats Should Remain on the Defensive in 2020 The Trump Era may call for a more proactive agenda, but the Trump campaign is all in on all the old attack lines — and Democrats need to be ready.
vision 2020
Oct. 29, 2019
vision 2020
July 30, 2019
What Does the History of Black Primary Voting Tell Us About 2020? It’s not totally clear whether Harris or Booker will perform like Barack Obama in 2008 or like Al Sharpton in 2004.
president trump
May 9, 2019
Trump Calls for John Kerry’s Prosecution Under the Logan Act Trump suggested Thursday that he had asked the DOJ to prosecute Kerry for meeting with Iranian officials, but “my people don’t want to do anything.”
thomas massie
Apr. 11, 2019
interesting times
Jan. 11, 2019
Andrew Sullivan: Welcome to Act III of the Trump Tragedy Threatening the unnecessary use of emergency powers to accomplish a trivial political goal marks a new phase in America’s anti-democratic spiral.
Democrats Finally Splitting With Republicans on Terrorism-Focused Foreign Policy Democrats are abandoning the war in Yemen that Obama supported. The 2020 presidential race could spur a real Democratic foreign policy debate.
john mccain
Aug. 27, 2018
That Time McCain Almost Switched Parties to Become the Democratic VP Candidate McCain thought about breaking with his party twice, and defying its orthodoxies a third time, but was never that maverick-y.
international women’s day
Feb. 8, 2018
Kerry 2020 and the Reign of the Gerontocrats Kerry is definitely a blast from the past, but deserves a hearing as much as any other septuagenarian.
movie review
Jan. 19, 2018
The Final Year Gives an Insider’s Perspective of the Obama PresidencyGreg Barker’s swift documentary covers the achievements, mistakes, and compromises that make the Obama legacy alternately exhilarating and depressing.
November 8, 2016: A Hard Day’s Night and Then a Year of Helter-Skelter I didn’t have time to freak out over Trump’s election. But it hits me now and then, without warning.
lgbtq rights
Jan. 9, 2017
State Department Apologizes for Discriminating Against LGBTQ Employees John Kerry just apologized for discriminatory practices “as far back as the 1940s.”
The GOP’s Bibi-Centric Foreign Policy As Republicans overreact to the U.N. resolution condemning Israeli settlements, their unconditional support for Netanyahu is a rare point of unity.
Kerry Delivers Eulogy for the Two-State Solution With Israel on the brink of abandoning a decades-old point of agreement, the outgoing secretary of State defends it one last time.
It’s Officially a No Go Between Russia and the United States on Syria Talks are suspended after the Kremlin-backed Syrian government’s ongoing strikes against Aleppo.
U.S. Air Strike in Syria Endangers Week-Old Cease-fire Syria has accused the U.S. of intentionally helping ISIS.
Syria Cease-fire Goes Into Effect, But Humanitarian Aid Still Hasn’t Arrived No deaths reported since the truce began, but the fighting hasn’t completely stopped.
international affairs
Sept. 10, 2016
U.S. and Russia Agree on New Ceasefire Plan in Syria The plan is due to start on Monday, but there doesn’t seem to be a lot of optimism that it will actually work.
early and often
Mar. 28, 2016
iran nuclear deal
Jan. 16, 2016
Sanctions on Iran Lifted Following Nuclear Deal Compliance The country met its commitments under last summer’s nuclear agreement, and can now rejoin the world economic community.
the national interest
Nov. 23, 2015
How Republicans Learned to Stop Hating France They have never hated France! It was John Kerry who hated France.
islamic state watch
Nov. 23, 2015
John Kerry: ‘People Need to Not Panic’ People are not very good at not panicking right now.
Nuclear-Talks Negotiators Want an Extension “And we still do not know yet whether we will be able to get there … We want to, we hope to, but we do not know.”
get well get well soon we want you to get well
May 31, 2015
John Kerry on Execution in North Korea: ‘Grotesque, Grisly, Horrendous’ “One of the most egregious examples of reckless disregard for human rights and human beings anywhere on the planet.”
John Kerry Went to Russia and All He Got Was This T-Shirt (and Some Tomatoes) According to the Secretary of State’s Twitter feed, they had “frank discussions.”
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