J. D. Vance is just the man that the Catholic right has been waiting for, @DamonLinker writes:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/08/jd-vance-post-liberal-catholics-thiel/679388/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Democrats Have Needed Someone Like Tim Walz for Decades

The Minnesota governor fills a decades-long geographic messaging gap for Democrats.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/opinion/tim-walz-prairie-populist.html?smid=em-share

Sarah Smarsh is a journalist and the author of the forthcoming book “Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class” and “Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth.”

Keir Starmer’s party beat the far right and far left by addressing real voters’ problems.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/07/uk-elections-2024-labour-party/678892/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Our democratic habits have been killed off by an internet kleptocracy that profits from disinformation, polarization, and rage. Here’s how to fix that.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/the-internet-doesnt-have-to-be-awful/618079/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

What Democrats Need to Do Now By David Brooks

If Democrats hope to win, they have to take the MAGA worldview seriously and respectfully make the case, especially to working-class voters, for something better.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/opinion/maga-trump-vance-democrats.html?smid=em-share