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Our Columnists on Election

2020
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Can We Trust the Polls?

Compared to 2016, there are so many unique variables this

election season that it’s unlikely that polls will be able to reflect
all of them.
 By Sue Halpern
October 21, 2020

How Republican Senators Account for the

Trump Presidency

For five years, Republicans have been wearily answering (or

dodging) the question of whether they support President Trump.
But voters are now asking them something deeper—about what
they have actually delivered.
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
October 21, 2020

Could Joe Biden Actually Bring America

Back Together?
 The former Vice-President has long valorized comity and respect
in the political arena, but the country’s deepest cleavages are
now imprinted on Americans’ party affiliations.
By Michael Luo
October 17, 2020

Why the Right Keeps Saying That the

United States Isn’t a Democracy

Our electoral rights have been debased by those who use the
claim that America is a republic, and the libertarianism on which
that claim feeds, to justify siphoning power from the electorate.
By Sue Halpern
October 15, 2020

The Remarkable Effectiveness of Pete

Buttigieg on Fox News
 Liberals, even those who had grown tired of his dogged
reasonableness, have celebrated each of his three recent
appearances on the network as a tour de force and a rout.
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
October 15, 2020

 October 19, 2020 Issue

Donald Trump’s Consistent Unreliability on

COVID, and Everything Else

It is painful to reflect on the tens of thousands of lives that might

have been saved if a less reality-challenged President had
occupied the White House.
By Steve Coll
October 11, 2020

The Election Wars of 2020

“Polarization” doesn’t begin to describe the current state of

American politics. The dominant metaphor of our time is
 warfare, and it was on full display during the first Presidential
debate.
By Dorothy Wickenden
October 1, 2020

The First Presidential Debate Was an

Alarm Call for American Democracy

The message that came out of Cleveland is that Donald Trump

has no intention of surrendering power willingly, and that his
primary strategy now is to disrupt the election and its aftermath.
By John Cassidy
September 30, 2020

“This Is So Unpresidential”: Notes from the

Worst Debate in American History

Trump talked and talked on Tuesday night, but, politically

speaking, it added up to nothing.
By Susan B. Glasser
September 30, 2020


Biden and Trump’s First Debate Did Not

End Well

Debates are meant to present contrasts, but at the outset this one
delivered only characters.
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
September 30, 2020

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