Opinion
Turning down the lights on US surveillance authorities at a time of peril
This Friday at midnight, while the American military may very well be trading fire once again with Iran, the single most productive foreign intelligence collection authority in the U.S. government’s arsenal will expire. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — the law that lets our government collect communications of foreign terrorists, spies and […]
Unhappy independents will decide this election
I’m always astonished when I hear political consultants cling to the notion that winning majorities in the House and the Senate is only about turning out the base. Neither party — neither MAGA nor the progressive left — have the numbers to make that claim anymore. For the doubters out there, according to the Edison […]
An autopsy of the DNC campaign autopsy
After weeks of stalling, Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin finally released the long-awaited campaign autopsy to nearly universal bad reviews. What the DNC needed was a candid after-action report. What they got was an extraordinarily incomplete post-mortem that fails to get to the heart of what worked, what didn’t and why. The party is […]