Ronald Brownstein
He is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of presidential campaigns and the author or editor of seven books. His most recent book, Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Music, Movies, Television and Politics, was a New York Times best seller. Previously, he served as Atlantic Media’s director of editorial partnerships and as the national political correspondent and a columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He is a winner of the American Political Science Association’s Carey McWilliams Award, its highest honor for lifetime achievement in journalism.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Is Biden a Man Out of Time?
Democrats have a growing sense of panic about conservative advances but are not seeing a president who shares their urgency.
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The Atlantic America Is Growing Apart, Possibly for Good
The great “convergence” of the mid-20th century may have been an anomaly.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Democrats’ New Spokesman in the Culture Wars
The left desperately needs someone to stand up to Republicans’ rights rollback. Is Gavin Newsom up to the task?
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Apu Gomes / Getty Is This the End of the George Floyd Moment?
The Los Angeles and San Francisco election results add pressure on Democrats to balance criminal-justice reform with public safety.
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The Atlantic No, Ann Coulter, I Am Not Responsible for the ‘Great Replacement’ Theory
Documenting how a diversifying electorate might help Democrats is not the same as inciting fears about “replacement.”
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The Atlantic The Real Reason America Doesn’t Have Gun Control
The basic rules of American democracy provide a veto over national policy to a minority of the states.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Tayfun Coskun / … What the Primaries Reveal About the Future of Trumpism
The movement no longer depends on Trump himself.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Democrats’ Midterm Identity Crisis
Biden’s agenda is stuck. His party hasn’t figured out how to replace it.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty America’s Blue-Red Divide Is About to Get Starker
As abortion rights are rolled back in certain states, the gap between the country’s two dominant political coalitions will widen.
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Gabrielle Lurie / San Francisco Chronicle / Getty; … Why California Wants to Recall Its Most Progressive Prosecutors
Criminal-justice reform takes time, but voters might be running out of patience.
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The Atlantic The Green-Energy Culture Wars in Red States
Another thing holding back our transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy
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Getty; The Atlantic Biden’s Uncertainty Principle
Will life feel even remotely “normal” by the 2022 midterms?
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Joe Raedle / Getty Want to Understand the Red-State Onslaught? Look at Florida.
Alarmingly restrictive laws continue to proliferate across much of the country.
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The Atlantic; Saul Loeb / Getty; Win McNamee … What Biden’s State of the Union Speech Was For
Few presidents have come into a State of the Union address needing a second wind as badly as Joe Biden did last night.
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Drew Angerer / Getty Biden’s Chance at Redemption
After losing public confidence with the Afghanistan debacle, the president now has the opportunity to reset.
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The Atlantic The Challenges of an Electric-Vehicle Revolution
The United States Postal Service could lead by example with its new fleet of delivery trucks. What’s standing in the way?
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Getty; The Atlantic The Supreme Court’s ‘Dead Hand’
The 6–3 majority-conservative Supreme Court is dangerously out of step with a demographically and culturally changing America.
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Getty; The Atlantic Does Biden Have a Second Act?
The experience of three recent predecessors shows why it’s too early to count him out.
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Caballero Reynolds / AFP / Getty; Robert Gauthier … Republicans Are Trying to Suppress More Than Votes
The proliferation of restrictive laws—from school curriculum to the ballot box—continues.
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Tom Williams / Getty; Eric Lee / Bloomberg … Democrats Moved the Filibuster Overton Window
Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema may be the last in their party to support maintaining the procedure.
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