Philip Bump
Washington Post: National columnist. Newsletter: "How To Read This Chart." Book: "The Aftermath." [email protected]
Analysis | One question answered: The debate made Biden’s position worsewww.washingtonpost.com Countless questions, most unanswerable, remain.
Analysis | Biden and Democratic legislators undercut their party’s central messagewww.washingtonpost.com Most supporters of President Biden plan to vote for him because he isn’t Donald Trump. But Biden and his party have downplayed that distinction.
Analysis | The target of the right’s ‘revolution’ is pluralistic democracy itselfwww.washingtonpost.com The president of the Heritage Foundation said, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
Analysis | One question answered: The debate made Biden’s position worsewww.washingtonpost.com Countless questions, most unanswerable, remain.
Analysis | Biden and Democratic legislators undercut their party’s central messagewww.washingtonpost.com Most supporters of President Biden plan to vote for him because he isn’t Donald Trump. But Biden and his party have downplayed that distinction.
Analysis | The target of the right’s ‘revolution’ is pluralistic democracy itselfwww.washingtonpost.com The president of the Heritage Foundation said “we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
Analysis | The perfectly valid presidential-immunity murder hypotheticalwww.washingtonpost.com Trump’s defenders (and some of his critics) are often missing the point of the argument.
Analysis | Congress is a lot Trumpier than it was when Trump won in 2016www.washingtonpost.com Most Republicans on Capitol Hill took their positions after the 2016 election. They are more conservative than those who were already there.
Analysis | Trump would return to the White House unfettered and unassailablewww.washingtonpost.com A second Trump administration would not be bounded as the first one was.
Analysis | The perfectly valid presidential-immunity murder hypotheticalwww.washingtonpost.com Trump’s defenders (and some of his critics) are often missing the point of the argument.
Analysis | A new national poll turns post-debate conventional wisdom on its headwww.washingtonpost.com As always, though, we should be cautious about reading too much into one poll.
Analysis | Congress is a lot Trumpier than it was when Trump won in 2016www.washingtonpost.com Most Republicans on Capitol Hill took their positions after the 2016 election. They are more conservative than those who were already there.
Analysis | Trump would return to the White House unfettered and unassailablewww.washingtonpost.com A second Trump administration would not be bounded as the first one was.
Analysis | The minoritarian power imbalance that gave Trump immunitywww.washingtonpost.com The way the system works is that five members of the nine-person Supreme Court can be nominated by presidents who lost the popular vote when they first ran and that four of them can be confirmed by se...
Analysis | The ‘Biden dictatorship’: How the right reframes the threat to democracywww.washingtonpost.com North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R), a potential VP pick for Donald Trump, presented a useful distillation of the right’s response to concerns about democracy.
Analysis | The Supreme Court gets the stakes of presidential immunity backwardwapo.st The reason that the question is being broached now isn’t that Donald Trump is a victim.
Analysis | Four things to remember about post-debate pollswww.washingtonpost.com It’s still early to judge whether Biden’s poor performance weakened his position — but lots of reason to think it won’t.