Archive - Weekend Reading

Politicians in Robes: Part I

The Roberts Majority: Dictators Since Day One

Oct 11 •

Michael Podhorzer

The Electoral College: Legal but not Legitimate

Resisting Learned Helplessness

Oct 1 •

Michael Podhorzer

September 2024

Kamala Harris Will Win the Popular Vote

Here’s how we know.

Sep 26 •

Michael Podhorzer

Presidential Immunity Didn't Fall Out of A Coconut Tree

A Contextual Companion to Today’s New York Times Expose

Sep 15 •

Michael Podhorzer

Why Polling Is Opinion Journalism, In One Chart

We need to talk about the “margin of pollster.”

Sep 13 •

Michael Podhorzer

About that Times Poll

Separating the signal from the noise

Sep 10 •

Michael Podhorzer

As Go Unions, So Goes America

Power concedes nothing but to collective action.

Sep 3 •

Michael Podhorzer

August 2024

Beware of Mad Poll Disease In Good Times and In Bad

We have less than three months left. Polls still can't tell us anything we don't already know.

Aug 19 •

Michael Podhorzer

Mad Poll Disease Redux, Harris-Walz Edition

Also: Why Trump really chose JD Vance

Aug 7 •

Michael Podhorzer

July 2024

Election 2024: The Path Forward

106 Days to Reconsolidate the Anti-MAGA Majority

Jul 22 •

Michael Podhorzer

Oops! … They Did it Again

And they are not so innocent

Jul 16 •

Michael Podhorzer

In Any Other Country

We'd see the coup; here, we only see problematic jurisprudence.

Jul 9 •

Michael Podhorzer

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