Archive - Searchlight Institute

How to revamp the gun control movement

It will mean reckoning with the nuances of public opinion

Aug 8 • Eliot Wertheimer

Nobody won the factional war

The Democratic Party has been rudderless for a decade, and this primary season won't change that

Aug 5 • Ben Krauss

We need a coordinated research program for AI job loss

Preparing for AI disruption will certainly require more research in labor markets

Aug 3 • Matt Darling

July 2026

Abundance is coming for the Right

Their ideological conflicts run even deeper than the Left’s

Jul 31 • Marc J. Dunkelman

Be a Big Tent Absolutist

Ideological diversity is a feature of the Party, not a bug

Jul 28 • Adam Jentleson

What if Zohran’s PIT crews were on a federal racetrack?

The first administrator of the U.S. Digital Service thinks it's time to think bigger

Jul 24 • Mikey Dickerson

What we mean by ‘health care unity’

A new plan for pragmatic and progressive health care reform

Jul 22 • David C. Bowen

Public sector reform is good politics

Voters believe government jobs should be treated like any other job

Jul 21 • Nicholas Bagley

The most absurd litmus test in American politics

What Democrats can learn from election denialism

Jul 18 • Ben Krauss

Our health care policy debate is sick

Democrats need a check-up before the 2028 primary

Jul 16 • Tré Easton

What Graham Platner’s strategists used to know

Blue-collar identity needs blue-collar issues

Jul 14 • Ben Krauss

I was in Trump’s “They/Them” ad. Here’s my advice for Democrats

Candidates can’t evade questions about trans issues

Jul 13 • Mara Keisling

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