Suzanne Mettler.

Senator Chuck Schumer conducts a news conference in the U.S. Capitol in May 2025. Image: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images FORUM How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated. Adam Bonica, Jake Grumbach With responses from → Cori Bush, Amanda Litman, Matthew Yglesias, G. Elliott Morris, Julia Serano, Eric Rauchway, Suzanne Mettler & Trevor E. Brown, Thomas Ferguson, Timothy Shenk, Jared Abbott & Milan Loewer, Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, Lily Geismer, Danielle Wiggins, William A. Galston, and Henry Burke

We have a Boston Review Forum out today on the Democratic Party in a time of authoritarianism

www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy by Suzanne Mettler and Trevor E. Brown

Suzanne Mettler

This Saturday (Jan 31) at 2:00 pm EST, see @smettler.bsky.social, co-author of Rural Versus Urban, give a lecture as part of the National Writers Series! She will discuss her book and how the urban-rural divide drives partisan polarization.

Get tickets for this hybrid event here: buff.ly/2QZ3VnT

How Democrats Lost Rural Voters—and How to Win Them Back Neglect and disdain of rural voters have driven them from the Democratic party, argue authors Suzanne Mettler and Trevor Brown.

🎥 Listen to SSN Academic Director @smettler.bsky.social, Cornell, and Trevor Brown, @snfagora.bsky.social, on how Democrats lost rural voters and what it will take to bridge the rural-urban political divide.

@anne-s-kim.bsky.social & @garrettepps.bsky.social, @washingtonmonthly.com:

How Democrats Lost Rural Voters—and How to Win Them Back Neglect and disdain of rural voters have driven them from the Democratic party, argue authors Suzanne Mettler and Trevor Brown.

Trevor Brown & I appreciated this conversation @washingtonmonthly.com How Democrats Lost Rural Voters—and How to Win Them Back washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/28/h...

Director of Chapters - Scholars Strategy Network - Career Page Work closely with volunteer leaders to engage and activate members and impact policy in regions across the country. Members work in colleges & universities.

Job Opportunity! Director of Chapters, Scholars Strategy Network. A nationwide organization (37 chapters!), aiming to improve public policy & strengthen democracy. Please spread the word about this exciting opportunity.
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Powell goes full Schattschneider 🤓!

Expand the scope of conflict, get audience off the sidelines & into the game. Gambit to rally political support for Fed & put Trump on defensive. Reminder that Fed depends on political support (from lawmakers, markets, judges, POTUS) to secure its “independence”

America's Rural-Urban Divide: A conversation with Suzanne Mettler, Cornell University and co-author of Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens America A recording from Julian Zelizer's live video

Enjoyed this conversation with Julian Zelizer on the rural-urban political divide.
open.substack.com/pub/julianze...

The submerged state emerges
h/t @smettler.bsky.social

Great book launch events today in D.C. at @brookings.edu and on H St for @smettler.bsky.social and Trevor Brown’s Rural vs. Urban from @princetonupress.bsky.social.

Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy My interview with Cornell Professor Suzanne Mettler and Johns Hopkins Fellow Trevor Brown on their new book on America's growing rural-urban split

Enjoyed discussing rural politics & the place-based divide w/ @mikealbertus.bsky.social! open.substack.com/pub/michaela...

Wow, that's very striking. Thanks for sharing, David!

Thank you for this generous post, @meredithconroy.bsky.social!

Thank you, @mattnelsen.bsky.social for this very thoughtful post!

YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show Why Rural America Turned on the Democratic Party | The Ezra Klein Show

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.

The Rural Power Behind Trump’s Assault on Blue Cities

The political scientist @smettler.bsky.social examines the roots of America’s urban-rural divide and how Democrats can win back rural voters.
open.spotify.com/episode/2zQ9...

youtu.be/M9bjypc1rS4?...

My conversation with Ezra Klein on Rural Versus Urban, with Trevor Brown. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/o...

Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy by Suzanne Mettler and Trevor E. Brown

@smettler.bsky.social, co-author of Rural Versus Urban with Trevor E. Brown, appeared on @cnn.com this morning with @audiecornish.bsky.social to discuss her new book. next.frame.io/share/3e8b90...

Dr. Suzanne Mettler on Saving Democracy Before it's Too Late The divide that threatens democracy can be repaired. Rural vs. Urban shows how.

Honored to interview Dr. Suzanne Mettler about Rural vs. Urban, co-written Trevor Brown. @princetonupress.bsky.social The book unpacks the current threat to democracy and how it can be repaired. A must-read for the moment at hand.

Thank you, Miranda!!

Thrilled that my copy of Rural Versus Urban arrived in the mail today. Big congrats to @smettler.bsky.social and Trevor Brown! I can hardly wait to read it.

Look what just arrived! Our book, Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide that Threatens Democracy, is due out Sept. 23. www.amazon.com/Rural-Versus...

Thrilled to see this news, Mallory!! Congratulations!!

I'll be returning to campus this fall as the inaugural Tony and Teddie Brown Associate Professor of Public Policy.

I am excited to have earned tenure at Duke and humbled to receive this specific endowed chair (more on that later).

I've been sitting on this news for a while now...

Thanks, David! Glad to hear.

Trevor Brown and I have a new book out in September: Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy. (Princeton UP) Fits your description!

In this @usnews.com op-ed, ‪@nadiabell.bsky.social, @elianabuckner.bsky.social ‬& Benjamin Sommers argue the proposed work requirements for #Medicaid and #SNAP in the "Big, Beautiful Bill" could cost millions their #healthcare and food aid.

Learn more. ⤵️

Opinion | Republicans Will Use Paperwork to Kick Americans Off Health Care

In fact, those changes to the rules & procedures for Medicaid ARE actually benefit cuts...BIG cuts. The most vulnerable Americans' basic needs are being sacrificed to pay for tax cuts for the rich. Thanks @pamherd.bsky.social & @donmoyn.bsky.social for revealing it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/o...

Estimated Budgetary Effects of a Bill to Provide for Reconciliation Pursuant to Title II of H. Con. Res. 14, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act As ordered reported by the House Committee on the Budget on May 18, 2025

Reminder that the CBO says that if the Reconciliation Bill goes through:
-7.6 million people would lose coverage because of Medicaid changes
-1 million would lose it because of changes to the ACA from E&C
-2.1 million would lose it because of changes by Ways and Means
www.cbo.gov/publication/...

CBO just released its own preliminary estimates for how rich vs poor are affected by the House budget bill. Roughly same conclusion: poorest get poorer, richest get richer.

www.cbo.gov/system/files...

The GOP’s rhetoric isn’t as aggressive this time around, but their policy goals are similarly destructive.

The low-end estimate is $792B cut from Medicaid—with $370B of those cuts targeting the ACA’s Medicaid expansion.

They’re coming hard for both Medicaid and the ACA—and 10m will lose insurance.

Research at risk: Life-saving heart pumps for babies | Cornell Chronicle After receiving a stop-work order from the federal government, the future of a device to help children with heart defects is uncertain.

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects.

It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this.

The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.