You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can a transcript here. President Trump has sometimes been described as antiwar or isolationist. That’s totally wrong, says Matt Duss, executive vice president for the Center for International Policy. He was also a […]
Read MoreYou can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read a transcript here. Senator Elizabeth Warren says Democrats need to be a “big tent” party that includes more working-class voters. But that tent should not be expanded to billionaires, she argues, […]
Read MoreYou can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read a transcript here. By the end of last year, President Trump was declining politically, with his poll numbers plunging and members of the Republican Party increasingly distancing themselves from him. But […]
Read MoreYou can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Democrats in Congress and the broader public must signal their opposition to the Trump administration overthrowing the Venezuelan government or the president will feel emboldened to take other such radical acts, says Leah Greenberg, […]
Read MoreThe US Deposed Maduro. Now What? | Right Now With Perry Bacon by The New Republic In today’s episode, Perry speaks with Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, Elizabeth Saunders. Read on Substack You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. […]
Read MoreYou can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. President Trump’s political rise came because of a white backlash against Barack Obama, says Julia Azari, a political scientist at Marquette University. She argues Trump’s circumstances are similar to Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon, two […]
Read MoreYou can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. There’s a lot of commentary that Democrats are declining with the “working class.” Those analyses are usually grounded in declining Democratic support among voters without four-year degrees, particularly whites. But in the latest edition […]
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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Democrats are increasingly discussing affordability and blaming high costs of goods on President Trump. But Brian Beutler and Will Stancil, two liberal political commentators, say the Democrats shouldn’t be too confident about this messaging. […]
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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read a transcript here. There are three crises afflicting America’s news media, according to Victor Pickard, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. Local news outlets are disappearing […]
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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. President Trump started the year having won the popular vote for the first time, made significant gains with voters of color and consolidated the support of Republicans on Capitol Hill, on the federal judiciary, […]
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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. With President Trump’s deep unpopularity and the traditional backlash against the president’s party, Republicans seem destined to lose the House. So last summer, Trump started insisting that state-level Republicans further gerrymander their states’ congressional […]
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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read a transcript here. Is President Trump a lame duck? Maybe. The president’s sagging approval ratings are emboldening Democrats and even some Republicans to increasingly challenge the president. On the latest edition […]
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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read a transcript here. Health care premiums are extremely high for many Americans after President Trump and congressional Republicans refused to extend enhanced Obamacare subsidies. That impasse builds the case for America […]
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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read the transcript here. The Trump administration and the broader conservative movement is using anti-Black ideas and tropes to further their agenda, says Kimberlé Crenshaw, a renowned legal scholar perhaps best known […]
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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. President Trump and his administration are cracking down on universities, trying to force schools to drop inclusive policies if they want to continue to receive federal funding. But there is a separate effort targeting […]
Read MoreYou can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read a transcript here. The Democrats need to become a party centered on fighting government corruption, oligarchy and other issues that don’t cut along traditional ideological lines, says Adam Bonica, a political […]
Read MoreYou can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read a transcript here. Voters under age 30, Black voters, and Latinos were much more supportive of President Trump in 2024 than they were of past Republican presidential candidates. But exit polls […]
Read MoreYou can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read the transcript here. The Democrats’ capitulation in the government shutdown seems to have been motivated by four factors, as TNR’s Monica Potts and Alex Shephard explain in the latest edition of […]
Read MoreYou can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Representative Ro Khanna, a prominent progressive and potential 2028 candidate, explicitly called for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to resign in the latest edition of Right Now. Khanna says that Schumer is ultimately responsible […]
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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral election despite an onslaught of commercials attacking him that were funded by New York’s ultrawealthy, including Democratic-leaning figures such as Michael Bloomberg. He also overcame very negative coverage from […]
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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Democrat Abigail Spanberger handily won the Virginia gubernatorial race, as was expected. In something of a surprise, New Jersey’s Mikie Sherrill, another Democrat, also won comfortably. Those two races were perhaps the most important […]
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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Zohran Mamdani’s strong opposition to Israel’s military actions in Gaza is a critical element of his political success, according to Patrick Gaspard, a longtime Democratic operative who is advising the mayoral front-runner. In the […]
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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Democrats are even more furious about the government shutdown now that President Trump is using the impasse as a pretext to stop tens of millions of Americans from getting benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition […]
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Right Now With Perry Bacon is a twice-weekly show about national politics with a focus on the radicalism of the Trump administration and tactics to combat it. The program, hosted by New Republic staff writer Perry Bacon on Substack, features in-depth discussions with experts and politicians. It goes beyond the daily headlines to explain why […]
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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Several elite U.S. colleges, including Brown, Dartmouth, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have all rejected a “compact” with the Trump administration, in which the schools might have received additional federal funding as long as they implemented […]
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Our estimate, based on all of the crowd-counting data that we’ve got in that multiplier assessment, is around seven million. We’ve heard from the rapid-response crowd-counter people that it could have been as large as eight and a half. So we’re satisfied with that number. You know, if you look at the trajectory of the […]
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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. There were 2700 No Kings events across the country, with at least 7 million participating, according to Leah Greenberg, co-executive director of Indivisible, one of the groups that helped coordinate the protests. It was […]
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Chicago is a city “under siege,” says Representative Delia Ramirez. In the latest episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon, she described a city where residents are terrified, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detaining anyone they want and using violence against those protesting their actions. She warned that the Trump administration is using the […]
Read MoreSeitz-Wald: That’s right, ranked choice in both. Ranked choice in both the primary and the general election for federal offices; ranked choice in the primary but not the general for the governorship, yeah. But yes, for the Senate. So there’s a number of other candidates in this race we haven’t even talked about, and they’re […]
Read MoreMarine veteran and oyster farmer Graham Platner, another Democrat, launched his campaign in August and has drawn both huge crowds in the state and attention nationally. (Read TNR’s Ana-Marie Cox’s excellent profile of Platner.) He’s running on a populist, anti-billionaire platform and has become a favorite of the party’s progressive wing, receiving an endorsement from […]
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And so here we are now, and this is an argument that I’m having, obviously, live. If we believe that our job right now — and I believe it is — is to blunt the authoritarian assault that we live within, then we have to be honest with ourselves and understand that electing Democrats in […]
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