Andy Schmookler

It is virtually certain that a very large majority of the people in the areas where this column appears will be voting for Donald Trump.

When, in the aftermath of the election, the votes have been counted, one of two things will almost certainly happen. Either

A political ad that ran near the end of the 2024 presidential campaign — this is being written before Election Day -- had Julia Roberts telling

A clean result

For many months, I characterized the 2024 election as a battle between democracy and fascism. Now, in the months to come, we will find out how valid or invalid that

I have argued here before that we are better creatures than we think ourselves to be, and that our culture teaches us that we are.

Feeling connected with the wider world

Democrats have been trying to identify mistakes they made that contributed to the catastrophic election outcome, giving the powers of the presidency to a man whose abuse of those powers is virtually certain.

Having concluded that my efforts to have some impact on today's conservatives were futile, I turned my attention to the liberal side, and recently

(“It,” of course, is the 2024 Election.) There are two main reasons. What it reveals about the “state of consciousness” of the American people