Month: June 2015
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New NYT: Is the Roberts Court really drifting left?
From my new Upshot column: The Supreme Court continued a trend Thursday morning toward making seemingly more liberal decisions. In two important cases, the court’s conservative majority was again split, putting liberal justices in the majority on decisions upholding the legality of certain subsidies to help Americans purchase insurance under the Affordable Care Act and
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New NYT: Clinton’s campaign not very narrow
From my new Upshot column: Is Hillary Rodham Clinton running a campaign focused on “secondary, base-ginning issues”? That’s what Josh Kraushaar of The National Journal argued in a column on Tuesday. He stated that until recently she “has seemed content to energize small slices of the electorate” like blacks and Hispanics with “side issues” like
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New NYT: Hillary Clinton and wishful-thinking politics
From my new Upshot column: Hillary Clinton’s campaign took a beating among some pundits this week for telling the truth: She’s going to employ a strategy focused on a narrow set of the most competitive states. In other words, she’s running as a modern presidential candidate. Mrs. Clinton’s statement is what’s called a Kinsley gaffe
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New NYT: Debate access and third party candidates
From my new Upshot column: What is keeping third-party and independent candidates from mounting credible campaigns for the presidency? According to Level the Playing Field, a nonprofit that is attracting national media coverage, the problem is candidates’ access to televised debates. In a recent ad in The Wall Street Journal, the group blamed the requirement