The Argument Is Wrong On Purpose
The pundits at The Argument do not want to fight the right. They want to excuse it. Their endless talk of “reasonableness” all comes back to the same point: when the right does something bad, blame the left.
The pundits at The Argument do not want to fight the right. They want to excuse it. Their endless talk of “reasonableness” all comes back to the same point: when the right does something bad, blame the left.
Now that we’ve shifted the political reality, the eyes of the country—even the world—are on us. What will we do with that power? What must we do?
For 40 days, Senate Democrats held out, but in the end they caved in exchange for a false promise of a future vote they will surely lose. They simply rolled over and surrendered. All of the talk of saving healthcare subsidies was empty words. The shutdown, and the ways it negatively impacted people’s lives, was for nothing.
Despite her anti-Trump bonafides, Maine voters really, really don’t want Janet Mills to run for Senate. Why is that?
ICE agents are not and should not be above the law: the time has come to prosecute ICE.
Zohran Mamdani got caught in a rhetorical trap about Cuba. How do we respond as a movement?
The point of finding the reasons misogyny exists is not to assign moral blame, it’s to understand how to change it.
The right doesn’t win with facts — it wins with stories. The left needs better ones.
The real divide in the Democratic Party isn’t left vs. moderate, but who’s willing to fight Trump and who isn’t.