
Dara Lind
Senior Correspondent
Latest articles by Dara Lind


While Steve Beshear reached out to moderates, Astrid Silva spoke to the resistance.


It’s probably code for less immigration.


He may want to succeed on comprehensive reform where Bush and Obama failed — but there’s a reason they couldn’t do it.


President Trump’s first big speech; his administration’s first big test at the UN; and his Cabinet’s first (or second, or 50th) race controversy.


And it could be the most interesting speech of the night.


The wobbly progressivism of the Oscars ceremony.




The US and Mexico try to make it work (for the kids); the upcoming, maybe-not-all-that-consequential election for DNC chair; town hall attendees are angry, yo.


NASA astronomers have discovered a single star system, 40 light-years away, that has seven Earth-like planets.


Difference and integration in the Western world: a triptych.