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Zack Beauchamp

Zack Beauchamp

Senior Correspondent

    Latest articles by Zack Beauchamp

    Politics
    Coronavirus, closed borders, and the authoritarian impulseCoronavirus, closed borders, and the authoritarian impulse
    Politics

    National Review’s editor misreads the meaning of the coronavirus crisis in a particularly dangerous way.

    By Zack Beauchamp
    Politics
    The deep ideological roots of Trump’s botched coronavirus responseThe deep ideological roots of Trump’s botched coronavirus response
    Politics

    How the GOP’s decades-long war on expertise sabotaged America’s fight against the pandemic.

    By Zack Beauchamp
    4 winners and 2 losers from the March Democratic debate
    Politics

    Biden won. Trump lost. And coronavirus cast a shadow on the first one-on-one Democratic debate.

    By Zack Beauchamp, Dylan Matthews and 2 more
    Politics
    The stunning contrast between Biden and Trump on coronavirusThe stunning contrast between Biden and Trump on coronavirus
    Politics

    Biden’s speech was essentially adequate, clearing a very basic bar that Trump seemingly cannot.

    By Zack Beauchamp
    2 winners and 3 losers from Tuesday’s Democratic primaries
    Politics

    Joe Biden won big in Michigan and elsewhere. Bernie Sanders’s black outreach campaign had a rough night.

    By Dylan Scott, Dylan Matthews and 2 more
    Politics
    Joe Biden wins MissouriJoe Biden wins Missouri
    Politics

    Biden has won Missouri, a state in which he was the heavy favorite.

    By Zack Beauchamp
    Politics
    The raging controversy over “Bernie Bros” and the so-called dirtbag left, explainedThe raging controversy over “Bernie Bros” and the so-called dirtbag left, explained
    Politics

    The Bernie Bro stereotype is reductive. But there’s a specific group of Sanders fans that pose a real problem for him.

    By Zack Beauchamp
    Politics
    Trump’s denialist tweets are the coronavirus reaction we fearedTrump’s denialist tweets are the coronavirus reaction we feared
    Politics

    The president tweeted misinformation about coronavirus and the stock market on Monday.

    By Zack Beauchamp
    Politics
    Elizabeth Warren’s exit interview is a warning for the dirtbag leftElizabeth Warren’s exit interview is a warning for the dirtbag left
    Politics

    Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders supporters, and how online meanness backfires.

    By Zack Beauchamp
    Politics
    The Democratic Party’s risky bet on BidenThe Democratic Party’s risky bet on Biden
    Politics

    Picking Biden over Sanders might seem like the safe electability choice, but the Ukraine situation makes Biden much riskier than many believe.

    By Zack Beauchamp