Author: Eric Medlin

Eric Medlin explains why Elon Musk’s departure from the Trump administration won’t dissuade other billionaires from roles in government.

The Democratic Party is still trying to find its footing after the shocking loss of all three branches of government in 2024, but the No Kings Day protests are a start.

As the Trump era continues, Democrats need to pay attention to and compete in local, off-year elections.

Democrats need to win by a large margin in 2026 in order to build a durable majority in 2028.

Canadian history showcases a single fact: the country doesn’t want to be part of the United States.

Taken with other missteps, foreign policy failures such as this one have the potential to doom even the most successful presidents on the domestic front.

Eric Medlin explains how President Donald Trump is risking a second recession that could permanently damage his economic legacy.

Gavin Newsom threw a rhetorical bomb into the 2028 shadow primary last week in an interview with famed Trump supporter Charlie Kirk. In the course of the interview, he basically set the stage for a move towards the center that ascendant Democrats have been calling for ever since November. Newsom argued that the party had gone too far to the left on numerous social and cultural issues. He criticized liberals who state their pronouns before meetings and denigrated the use of “Latinx” among activists. Most notably, he argued that it was “deeply unfair” for transgender women and girls to compete…

Small-scale experiments can be effective at telegraphing the fate of different policies in both positive and negative ways.

Democrats thought they could appeal to shame and personal animosity to sink the nomination of Pete Hegseth to become Secretary of Defense. This approach failed.