Politics Editor for the Washington @Monthly. Also, contributor @politico @realclearnews, @DMZShow, When America Worked podcast. (Avi by @Jess_Sassenach.)
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For the debut episode of my history podcast "When America Worked," I delve into to the story of Edward Stettinius and the creation of the UN
It's a story with sex, spying, betrayal and, most importantly, bipartisanship and compromise
You can listen here scherable.com/whenamericawor…
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One of the midterms' most eye-popping results: Dems flipped 7 seats across the 2 high courts in Texas.
4 seats on supreme court; & 3 on court of criminal appeals.
I really wanted to start wrapping my head around what that might mean: boltsmag.org/supreme-court-r…
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Chuck Schumer says in exclusive interview with @pkcapitol that he’s got enough support to become Senate Majority Leader again
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Not the case in Massachusetts! wbur.org/news/2026/11/05/mas…
Democrats won the midterms --- but so did the tax revolt
In myriad states, the most leftwing electorate in modern history rallied behind anti-tax referenda
Many Dems catered to this mood, running on tax cuts, "no tax on cops," and property tax abolition
vox.com/politics/510291/demo…
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On today's pod, @billscher and I talk about the Hegseth impeachment failing, and signs that Trump is doubling down on the insanity. We also chat about whether Chuck Schumer should pack his bags. Enjoy! youtu.be/PsR2JdjN7K0?si=VqES…
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Ronan Farrow reportedly investigated sexual encounters with Lindsay Graham in 2020 but never published anything
How Democratic power brokers and a Tucker Carlson ally joined forces to turn allegations about Lindsey Graham into a weapon against his sister.
My story for @NYMag.
nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
Big news for book lovers!
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On November 15, The Reader will begin publishing five new books-related pieces each week—mostly reviews of nonfiction, where the lack of books coverage is most severe, but we’ll tell you about important new fiction, too.
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The Hamilton agenda:
End Iran war
Rollback tariffs
Bipartisan health care reform
Unspecified immigration reform
Shore up Social Security trust fund
Reduce national debt
NEW: I spoke with Methodist-megapastor-turned-Senator-elect Adam Hamilton about how his win and his plans for his time in Congress.
He talked about immigration and health care reform, as well as “via media,” the theological concept of a middle way. religionnews.com/2026/11/11/…
Lots of folks want to punish Schumer for favoring Haley Stevens who then turned heel.
Does this same logic apply to every progressive who backed John Fetterman in the 2022 primary? Or Jared Golden in the 2018 primary?
Shivving Schumer would also be shivving Schatz, who lined up support for Whip months ago & is positioned to succeed Schumer (& could probably use 2 yrs in the post 1st) I’m not a Senate insider but my impression is Schatz is broadly liked in the caucus.
thehill.com/homenews/senate/…
Yep I think we’re heading towards a Schumer signal (be it public or private) that this is a 2-year deal
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Most of the Dems who missed the vote were here, Republicans just gavelled before they got in there (which is their prerogative when time has expired). But their arrival would not have changed the outcome of the vote since all Republicans except Massie voted in lockstep.
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North Carolina Republicans will have officially dummymandered themselves in to an 11D-3R map. Had they not fiddled with the map this year to target Don Davis, Murphy would have won. Had they taken a different tack after 2022 they could have held even more seats.
The election results are a clear mandate from the people to make sure the leader of the Senate was not a 76-year-old lifelong politician from Brooklyn but a 67-year-old lifelong politician from Montgomery County washingtonmonthly.com/2026/1…
This is way out of line from Chris Van Hollen
1) Yes Schumer preferred Stevens but then he spent big on AES so get over it
2) Who’s the 2nd? Is CVH blaming Schumer for not supporting Jackson bc he picked Mills over Platner?
3) Schumer recruited Sherrod whom
crypto HATES
Pelosi’s biggest move upon becoming Speaker in 2007 was an increase in the minimum wage *paired* with Iraq War funding
🚨JUST IN: Whoa. Jeffries dropping some big moves on Lawrence O’Donnell:
JEFFRIES: “I think the fact that the minimum wage has been unchanged in 20 years and remains $7.25 an hour, and that's the case in more than a dozen states, that's unacceptable, un-American, it's unconscionable.
And so I certainly think that raising the minimum wage is something that we will lean into in the next Congress, and I look forward to having that conversation with both House Democrats, as well as Senate Democrats, so we can come together, both houses of the Congress, to do something decisive.”
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“Jon Stewart [claimed @chuckschumer ]‘fought tooth and nail against half of these f—ing people.’ But that isn’t true. Most of the Senate field were his recruits, and those that weren’t, like El-Sayed and Jackson, still got his financial backing.” washingtonmonthly.com/2026/1…
“What sort of message would it send if Democrats denied [@hakeemjeffries @teamhakeemhq] a historic promotion, not because he did something wrong, but because Democrats demanded a new face for the sake of having a new face?”
washingtonmonthly.com/2026/1…
“Jeffries is 56 years old and has been in Congress for 14 years. He has never been Speaker. When Jeffries became House Minority Leader just four years ago, that was the pass-the-torch moment many Democrats had long been clamoring for.”
More here: washingtonmonthly.com/2026/1…
“Hakeem Jeffries Is Not Old, and Chuck Schumer Is Not Done” — my Washington @monthly latest washingtonmonthly.com/2026/1…
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What's interesting is that numerous members of the recent Democratic Senate cohort have figured out how to synthesize progressive and centrist framing in a highly popular way.
What's also interesting is that this has not changed the discourse on here, which is just rehashing old arguments.