Expert political analysis by Mitchell Plitnick, a professional policy analyst for over two decades.
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Democrats are again dangerously threatening their electoral success by attacking the left. This has repeatedly cost them elections, and they can’t be allowed to do it again with their Piker witch-hunt
The hope that ousting Netanyahu will salvage Israel's shattered image is just another iteration of the delusion that Israel has an image problem when the problem is Israel's apartheid nature.
An El-Sayed victory would be a huge advantage in the race for control of the Senate. But more than that, it would upend how politics work in the Democratic Party.
As Pro-Israel groups try to attack Mamdani with false charges of antisemitism, they are intentionally terrorizing American Jews and fomenting antisemitism in other ways. And they know it.
As the U.S. war on Iran heats up once again, the threat to the global economy is greater than ever, and there seems to be no way out. I map out an achievable, albeit difficult, road to end this war.
The State Department's new threat to "dismantle" the ICC puts international law in the crosshairs but has equally worrisome implications for the rule of law in the U.S. as well.
Emmanuel hopes to be the pro-Israel Democratic candidate in 2028. His speech shows that he can only rehash old tropes which are not going win back Democratic voters who are fed up with Israel.
Douglass' epic July 4 speech of 1852 holds powerful lessons for us in this monumental moment in the history of American policy toward Palestine and Israel.
Left-wing, populist victories in NYC and elsewhere have conservative Democrats apoplectic. They've targeted fellow Democrats, again showing they'd rather lose to Republicans than win with Progressives
Trump has probably been led to believe that the Israel-Lebanon agreement will remove an obstacle to a U.S. exit from the Iran war. Israel, however, understands that it will have the opposite effect.
While the usual suspects piled on to Mamdani's words, this time the bad faith attacks spread even to those "liberal Zionists" who claim to support him.
