Lisa Lerer
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How Democrats’ new primary calendar changes the chessboard
When a panel of Democratic Party insiders endorsed President Biden’s preferred lineup of early presidential nominating states Friday, they didn’t just shatter the exalted status of Iowa and New Hampshire voters. They also formally aligned themselves with a demographic reckoning decades in the making. → Read More
Confidence, anxiety, and a scramble for votes two days before the midterms
As candidates sprinted across the country to make their closing arguments, Republicans entered the final stretch of the race confident they would win control of the House and possibly the Senate. → Read More
At campaign’s end, Democrats see limits of focus on abortion
After spending hundreds of millions of campaign dollars on abortion messages — nearly $415 million on ads alone — Democrats have found the impact to be uneven. → Read More
Five key moments from the Walker-Warnock debate in Georgia
The debate Friday night between Senator Raphael Warnock and his less experienced Republican challenger, Herschel Walker, had its share of sharp clashes. Here are standout moments from the debate. → Read More
With voters from both parties energized, campaigns begin fall sprint
For two decades, midterm elections have served as a vehicle for voter discontent, a chance for Americans to punish the president, shake up a statehouse, and express their anger with the party in power by costing them congressional seats and governor’s mansions. → Read More
Protect abortion rights? Virginia Democrats’ vacation plans get in the way.
Many in the party want to seize what they see as a fleeting opportunity: protecting abortion rights by codifying them into state law. But "there are too many people out of town.” → Read More
Republicans Pounce on Schools as a Wedge Issue to Unite the Party
Rallying around what it calls “parental rights,” the party is pushing to build on its victories this week by stoking white resentment and tapping into broader anger at the education system. → Read More
Republicans Pounce on Schools as a Wedge Issue to Unite the Party
Rallying around what it calls “parental rights,” the party is pushing to build on its victories this week by stoking white resentment and tapping into broader anger at the education system. → Read More
Union Veteran Takes Over at Emily’s List as Abortion Fights Loom
Laphonza Butler, a labor leader turned strategist, will become the first woman of color — and the first mother — to lead the Democratic fund-raising powerhouse. → Read More
Biden’s Covid-19 Vaccine Push Aligns Him With a Fed-Up, Vaccinated Majority
As the president took forceful new steps to pressure Americans to get inoculated, he argued that they were urgently needed health measures. In his allies’ view, they were also good politics. → Read More
Democrats Call for Cuomo's Resignation, but Who Will Replace Him?
Potential successors are in the wings. But the longer it takes for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s fate to be resolved, the greater the headache for Democrats. → Read More
D.N.C. Staff to Join Union, in a Milestone for Labor
The effort follows the unionization of several 2020 Democratic presidential campaigns, and will make the D.N.C. the first national party group to have an organized work force. → Read More
Already Distorting Jan. 6, G.O.P. Now Concocts Entire Counternarrative
In the Republicans’ disinformation campaign, the arrested Capitol rioters are political prisoners and Speaker Nancy Pelosi is to blame for the attack. → Read More
Latino Voters Moved Toward Republicans. Now Biden Wants Them Back.
Did Democrats take the Hispanic vote for granted in 2020? Some in the party think they did, and can’t afford the same mistakes going forward. → Read More
Progressives’ Urgent Question: How to Win Over Voters of Color
A yearslong challenge for the left was starkly illustrated this week as its hopes faded in the New York mayor’s race. → Read More
Biden Tried to Keep It Boring. This Week Intervened.
His team has projected the image of a calmer White House, but recent days showed that it can’t outrun chaos. → Read More
Supreme Court Case Throws Abortion Into 2022 Election Picture
Supporters and opponents of abortion rights say a major ruling just before the midterm elections could upend political calculations for the two parties. → Read More
The G.O.P.’s Big Cancellation
The party’s cancel mob runs wild on Capitol Hill. → Read More
Elizabeth Warren Grapples With Presidential Loss in New Book
In “Persist,” the Massachusetts senator delves into gender issues and her own shortcomings after her failed bid for the Democratic nomination. → Read More
Joe Biden, the Reverse Ronald Reagan
Four decades later, another elder statesman seeks to transform Americans’ ideas about the size of government. → Read More