Author Archives: Bill McCarthy

Follow the Money—It Tells You More Than the Polls

Polls bounce. Partisans cherry-pick them. A better early thermometer is where the national party committees [...]

Mark Warner’s Long Goodbye Tour

Mark Warner has occupied a Senate seat from Virginia since 2009. He wants another six [...]

Hasan Piker Is Electoral Poison—and Democrats Keep Drinking It (salty language alert)

Hasan Piker is a socialist Twitch streamer with a large young audience. Progressive candidates court [...]

AIPAC’s Democratic Romance Is Hitting the Rocks

For decades the American Israel Public Affairs Committee treated Democrats as reliable partners. It spent [...]

The Numbers Don’t Lie—America’s Demographic Reality

The United States is home to tens of millions of people born elsewhere. Distinguishing legal [...]

Trump Just Crowns Vance in Private—and the 2028 Race Just Got a Lot Clearer

President Trump sat down with donors in the Oval Office about two weeks ago and [...]

Los Angeles Has Gone Full Medieval—and the Rats Are Winning

Los Angeles is overrun with rats. They breed in the streets, feast on garbage and [...]

When Even Bernie Sanders Won’t Touch You

Francesca Hong is the Democratic front-runner for governor of Wisconsin. She is a state assemblywoman, [...]

Democrats Just Lit Tens of Millions on Fire in Michigan

Establishment Democrats and their allied outside groups dumped a fortune into stopping Abdul El-Sayed in [...]

The 2028 Democratic Field Drifts Toward the DSA Playbook

No one has formally declared for the 2028 Democratic nomination, but the early field is [...]