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Selected Popular Writings

Gift, Thomas. 2023. “The Debt Ceiling Deal Averts a Default Crisis But Does Nothing to Address the US Government’s Long-term Spending Problems.” LSE USAPP 31 May.

Klaas, Brian. 2023. “In America’s Competition with China, Democracy Could Lose”. The Atlantic 23 May.

Gift, Thomas. 2023. “Three Reasons Why You Can’t Dismiss a Tucker Carlson Presidential Bid.” The Hill 8 May.

Gift, Thomas. 2023. “Biden’s Announcement Means that the 2024 Election Is Likely to Be a Rematch with Trump.” LSE USAPP 27 April.

Gift, Thomas. 2023. “US Faces $31.4 Trillion National Debt Crisis — and Republican Divisions Could Make It Harder to Solve Than Ever.” The Conversation 20 April.

Klaas, Brian. 2023.“The Red States Experimenting with Authoritarianism.” The Atlantic. 18 April.

Klaas, Brian. 2023. “Rule by Law in Florida.” The Atlantic 26 March.

Gift, Thomas. 2023. “An Indictment Will Arm Trump with More Political Ammunition ahead of the 2024 Election.” LSE USAPP. 24 March.

Gift, Thomas. 2023. “The Hush Money Case against Donald Trump Could Backfire. Here’s Why.” The Independent 22 March.

Gift, Thomas. “Trump v DeSantis: How the Two Republican Presidential Heavy-hitters Compare.” The Conversation 22 March.

Gift, Thomas. 2023. “With Its New Sanctions, the US Is Walking a Fine Line between Punishing Russia and Alienating China.” LSE USAPP 24 February.

Gift, Thomas, and Julie M. Norman. 2023. "For Joe Biden, Could Low Expectations Be a Gift?" The Hill 1 February. ​

Klaas, Brian. 2023. “Asymmetrical Conspiracism is Hurting Democracy.” The Atlantic 17 January.

Gift, Thomas, and Julie M. Norman. "Voters Don't Care if Politicians Have a Degree. So Why Do They All Have One?" Newsweek 9 January.

Gift, Thomas. 2023. “House Speaker Election: Fight over Kevin McCarthy’s Leadership Has Exposed Limits of Trump’s Power.” The Conversation 6 January.

Gift, Thomas, Julie M. Norman, and Andrew Bell. 2022. "Just Seeing a Fox New Logo Prompts Racial Bias, New Research Suggests." Washington Post 24 December. ​

Gift, Thomas. 2022. “Don't Bet against Trump and Fox News Reuniting for 2024.” The Hill 10 December.

Gift, Thomas, and Julie M. Norman. 2022. "Four More Years? Joe Biden and other Democratic hopefuls for the 2024 presidential nomination." The Conversation 17 November. ​

Gift, Thomas, and Julie M. Norman. 2022. "Love Him or Hate Him, Don’t Count Trump Out." The Hill 17 November.

Gift, Thomas. 2022. “Ron DeSantis: The Florida Governor Who May Steal the Republican Nomination from under His Mentor Donald Trump’s Nose.” The Conversation 11 November.

Klaas, Brian. 2022. “The Trump Apocalypse Has Not Been Cancelled.” The Atlantic 10 November.

Gift, Thomas, and Julie M. Norman. 2022. "US Midterms: Five reasons why the election results matter." The Conversation 9 November.

Gaddini, Katie. 2022. “Politics Used to be the Evangelical Man’s Domain. Not Anymore.” San Francisco Chronicle 8 November.

Gift, Thomas, and Julie M. Norman. 2022. "Five Ways the Conventional Wisdom is Wrong about the Midterms." The Hill 4 November.

Robertson, Mitchell. 2022. “Violating the Presidential Records Act is No Small Transgression.” Washington Post 12 August.

Norman, Julie M. and Thomas Gift. 2022. "Violence against Anti-Abortion Groups is Rising. Is it Justified?" Washington Post. 29 June.