Victor Shi: Democrats must take a new media approach
Republicans have spent decades building a robust, comprehensive, and effective information ecosystem — and it paid off in this election.
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Victor Shi: A Gen Zer offers advice to President Joe Biden as he gears up for his reelection bid
If Joe Biden wins in 2024, he will make history by being the oldest person elected to the presidency. That month, he'll turn 82. There is no shortage of people...
Victor Shi: Our country needs cameras in the courtroom during Donald Trump’s federal trial
The country is living through history with the first-ever federal indictment of a former president. A grand jury of Miami residents charged Donald Trump with 37 federal counts, ranging from...
Victor Shi: Young voters showed up and helped prevent major losses for Democrats
It's no surprise that midterm elections have historically been a referendum on the sitting president's political party. Since 1934, the president's party has, on average, lost four Senate seats and...
Victor Shi: Democrats should not give up on young voters
Election Day is less than one week away, and campaigns and candidates from both political parties are feeling the urgency. Both parties are maximizing the use of their money, volunteers...
Victor Shi: We don’t need a third party. We need ranked choice voting.
Earlier this summer, a group of anti-Trump and moderate Republicans and Democrats launched a new political party called the Forward Party. On the surface, this movement echoes recent polls indicating...
Victor Shi: Young people are more energized to vote than ever before
I am part of a generation — Generation Z — that has a faint recollection of 9/11, if any at all. We weren't even teenagers during the 2008 recession. And...
Victor Shi: Democrats need Asian American voters to win
Overlooked. Marginalized. Ignored. As an Asian American involved in politics, I have heard those words from people who look like me as they explain why they are detached from politics....
Victor Shi: The Jan. 6 committee should show, not tell, young voters the truth
Before the first prime-time hearing of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol nearly two months ago, U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin asserted that the...
Victor Shi: Democrats’ efforts to register more young people to vote is critical to democracy
On Nov. 9, the day after the midterm elections, Americans will wake up to one of two realities. One may well be the beginning of the end of functioning government...