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Political campaigns

In the Running

by Sarah Smarsh,

The trials of an almost candidate

Campaign Fowl

by Carol Off,

From an interview with Jim Puckett, the mayor of Fitzgerald, Georgia, that was conducted in November by the CBC Radio correspondent Carol Off. Puckett lost his 2021 bid for reelection…

INBOX ($0)

From fund-raising emails sent by the campaign of former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat who ran unsuccessfully for a second term in 2021. I’m going to level with you:…

Civil Warning

by Elliot Ackerman,

Are we living through another antebellum era?

Single White Email

From the subject lines of fund-raising emails sent out during the 2020 campaign season. Hey So . . . I need to be up-front I see you, I love you I’m blown away…

Common Enemy

by Ian Buruma,

The emerging resistance to Chinese Empire

The Tragedy of Ted Cruz

by Ana Marie Cox,

Does likability still matter in politics?

Star Search

by Lisa Rab,

The race to rebuild the Democratic Party

Trump’s People

by Paul Wood,

Among the fans in Florida, New Hampshire, and Iowa

Crossing the Valley

by Walter Kirn,

Like campaigning politicians, pornographers — who are also in the business of galvanizing tired nervous systems — face one problem that never goes away: cutting through the numbness caused by…

Down the Tube

by Andrew Cockburn,

Television, turnout, and the election-industrial complex