From 538, which offices are good stepping stones to the presidency? Looks like the 2020 Democratic presidential field could be the largest ever. Everyone’s running — and that could be dangerous for the Democrats. How do Democrats beat Trump in 2020? Barack Obama has some ideas. Bill Sher on how to choose the most electable Democrat in 2020. Nancy LeTourneau on presidential candidates and the “scandal test”. Amy Klobuchar’s treatment of staff isn’t just a 2020 story. Why Elizabeth Warren needs to
…Anyone familiar with Sam Lipsyte's work knows to expect somersaults of sentences, language twisted line after line into laugh-inducing poses. In his new novel, Hark, those poses have names: “Ithaka, Persian Rain, Moonlight Diana Number Three, Wheel of Tartars.” But this isn't pilates—it’s a form of self-actualization called “mental archery,” propagated by a man named Hark Morner.
…With his eye on the longer game, Ronald Reagan hedged against the nativists then filling Republican ranks. Even as his administration was carrying out workplace raids that critics were comparing to Operation Wetback in the 1950s, he bet the party’s fortunes on courting the Latino vote. “Hispanics are Republicans,” Reagan once said, on the idea that they were inherently conservative, “they just don’t know it."
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