AMONG DEMOCRATS and Republicans alike, there is growing recognition that the United States and China are engaged in Cold War II—a thesis that was still controversial only two years ago when I made the ...

After their big victories in the 2006 and 2008 elections, Democrats made the same mistake that they had made after 1992 and that Republicans had in 1994 and 2004: They assumed they had won a permanent ...

American politics, Timothy Shenk quips in his newest book, Left Adrift, “used to be simple: Republicans were for business, Democrats for labor.” But since the 1970s, class dealignment—the delinkage of ...

Class dealignment, in short, should be understood as a result of Democrats’ policy decisions in the 1990s and their work since 2000 to actively bring their electoral strategy into line with their ...

The rivalry of two men tells the story of how Democrats fumbled with their traditional base—and how they can win again. American politics, Timothy Shenk quips in his newest book, Left Adrift, “used to ...

Dealignment has arrived. Republicans blew it, and are now so repellent that Americans increasingly reject both political parties. In the latest Washington Post/ABC poll, 43 percent of voters labeled ...

The squalid state of our present political institutions points to a failure of not just individuals but the system as a whole. Kamala Harris at the 2024 Democratic National Convention. With all eyes ...

When discussing class dealignment, we must consider an additional, crucial factor: education level and the distinct cultural capital it provides. Education has emerged as a key predictor of voting ...