Jonathan V. Last

Authoritarians and their fetish for physical strength.

Change comes from adding people to the coalition, not polarizing the movement.

Biden has the biggest, most durable lead of any presidential challenger ever. He's more personally popular than Trump. The wrong-track number is at -38. And there are only 20 weekends left before Election Day.

Twitter is not a suicide pact.

Even “victory” is going to look a lot like defeat.

Decadence and performative emoting are alive and well in pandemic America.

In six weeks the coronavirus has killed more Americans than the Vietnam war.

No matter when government stay-at-home orders are revoked, the American economy will not reopen. Because the source of the economic shock is not government orders. It's the pandemic.

The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic is about to eclipse the death toll from September 11. And there's no end in sight.

Bernie Sanders can't beat Joe Biden. But he can force millions of people to risk being exposed to the coronavirus.