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How to Follow the Midterms Like a Freaking Pro
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In my last post I broke down the big contextual pieces leading up to the midterm elections: w...
Office Hours: What Makes a Politician “Good”?
Today’s Office Hours question comes from my Substack friend Tsunimee who asked something seemingly simple, but actually complex: What makes a politician good? And who’s the best president we’ve ever had? Ok, that is more than one question b...
The 2026 Midterms, Explained
With less than four weeks until the midterm election, I wanted to offer a guide to where things stand, what’s at stake, what to pay attention to, and how the results might affect those on the margins.
I’m going to break this into two parts...
Why do we have just two major parties in the U.S.?
Welcome back to Politics at the Margins Office Hours!
Today’s question comes from my super smart and very funny friend , who lives abroad and asks: how did the U.S. end up with only two main parties to vote for? She always took it as norma...
Office Hours #1: Which Sources Should We Believe?
Welcome to the first official Politics at the Margins “Office Hours”.
Our first question comes from , who identified one of the hardest problems in politics right now: when conflicts over issues, events, or elections arise and we want to u...
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