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The fight over abundance and scarcity
No. 401 | May 8, 2026
🏭 The new politics of American business
The team at Echelon released a report this week on the voter coalitions supporting and opposing 13 key industries. You can download the full report here.
Applying our pol...
4x💯: Are Dems out of good redistricting moves?
No. 400 | May 1, 2026
It’s the 400th edition of The Intersection! Here’s what was covered in past centennial editions:
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No. 100 — December 13, 2019: Blue Wave in the UK — Boris Johnson’s landslide victory
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No. 200 — December 17, 20...
The midterm motivation gap
No. 399 | April 24, 2026
🇺🇲 Trump’s strongest soldiers lag run-of-the-mill Democrats in midterm motivation
We’ve been tracking motivation in the midterms for quite some time, and this month Kristen broke the numbers down by MAGA vs....
How to avoid a midterm blowout
A hopefully less Simon Rosenberg-esque take.
The Virginia redistricting referendum is in the books and, as expected, Democrats have succeeded in passing their 10-1 map, albeit by an underwhelming 3-4 point margin. That performance stands i...
You can replace almost everything in polling with AI—just not the respondents
The liberal baby bust, the UK's angry young women, young men filling the pews but not going to college, nature is healing for Democrats, the fastest growing political YouTube channels, the NYT in data
No. 398 | April 10, 2026
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