Jonathan Alter

Jonathan Alter is a columnist for The Daily Beast and an analyst for MSNBC. He worked at Newsweek for 28 years as a senior editor and columnist. His most recent book, The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies, is now available in paperback.

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Dems Can Save Voting by Restoring the Mr. Smith Filibuster

A reckoning is coming: They don’t want the Senate to fiddle while democracy burns.

Jonathan Alter

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Biden’s First 100 Days Will Be the Biggest Since FDR’s

Even before being sworn in, Biden had devoted a series of speeches to his ambitious plans. When the action begins, it will be a tonic, as it was in 1933.

Jonathan Alter

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CLOSE THE ‘TOUGHNESS GAP’

Democrats Must Punish the House GOP’s ‘Seditious Seventeen’

Of the 126 Republican House members who signed that brief, 17 essentially agreed to invalidate their own votes. So invalidate them.

Jonathan Alter

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IN CASE YOU’D FORGOTTEN…

Today: Remind an Undecided Voter About Trump’s 4 Worst Acts

Public health menace. Dangerous autocrat. Racist demagogue. Incompetent whiner. It’s time to send him home for good.

Jonathan Alter

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Carter Has Always Been Odd Man Out in the Presidents’ Club

The unspoken rule among former presidents is that they keep silent on the actions of their successors. Carter has never felt bound by this.

Jonathan Alter