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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription.  ## Elise Jordan Jordan is a TIME columnist, an NBC News/MSNBC political analyst and a co-host of the Words Matter podcast.  ## Elise Jordan *  Nov 15, 2018 ### [I’ve Worked in Republican Politics. The Party’s Voter Suppression in the Midterms Has Been a Disgrace](https://time.com/5455179/georgia-brian-kemp-voter-suppression-recount-republicans-trump/) To tolerate this disenfranchisement is to be complicit in the worst of this nation’s past, writes El... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Mar 31, 2018 ### [I’ve Supported the Second Amendment My Whole Life. It’s Time for Reasonable Gun Control](https://time.com/5222720/second-amendment-gun-control/) Congress and the gun lobby will lose support if they don't act [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jan 15, 2018 ### [I'm a Republican. What on Earth Is Wrong With My Party?](https://time.com/5102586/republicans-donald-trump/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 10, 2017 ### [Roy Moore Is a Predator Whose Candidacy Proves Our Moral Decline](https://time.com/5019684/roy-moore-republicans-trump-christianity/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 3, 2017 ### [Trump's Stubbornly Loyal Base Can't Ignore What Comes Next](https://time.com/5009077/trump-indictments-base/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 29, 2017 ### [Roy Moore Is Doing Bernie Sanders Progressives a Big Old Favor](https://time.com/4963767/roy-moore-bernie-sanders/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 30, 2017 ### [There Has Never Been 'Normal' Under President Donald Trump](https://time.com/4840830/donald-trump-elise-jordan-normal/) Forget about normal. That's a long gone concept in the era of President Donald Trump [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 10, 2017 ### [Airstrikes Don't Mean Trump Is Suddenly Compassionate or Strategic](https://time.com/4732428/trump-syria-no-strategy/) 'By cheerleading Trump’s impulsivity, pundits provided the president with the incentive to continue ... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jan 31, 2017 ### [A White House Devoid of Integrity](https://time.com/4654658/trump-white-house-no-integrity/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 11, 2016 ### [A Habitual Liar Turned Out to Be the Ultimate Truth Teller](https://time.com/4567919/donald-trump-election-truth/) Many Americans don't care about 'rich white people problems' [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Oct 7, 2016 ### [What Undecided Voters Think of the Liars' Club Campaign](https://time.com/4522193/undecided-voters-liars-club-campaign/) The question on their minds is simple [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 26, 2016 ### [Hillary Clinton Can't Ignore the Cost of Her Foundation Scandal](https://time.com/4466911/hillary-clinton-email-excuses/) 'It's not only about what the Clintons did, but how they react' [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 5, 2016 ### [Donald Trump Loves Playing the Victim](https://time.com/4440895/donald-trump-implosion/) He's what some experts might call an 'injustice collector' [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jul 27, 2016 ### [This Is How the Trump Campaign May Have Interfered With Russia Policy](https://time.com/4426818/donald-trump-julian-assange-vladimir-putin/) An amendment on Ukraine was tabled during an RNC platform committee meeting [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jul 22, 2016 ### [Fear and Puking in Cleveland](https://time.com/4419725/rnc-fear-violence/) Ted Cruz was the only Republican to leave Cleveland with his dignity intact [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/elise-jordan/","name":"Elise Jordan"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/elise-jordan/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/elise-jordan/"},"name":"Elise Jordan","jobTitle":null,"description":"Jordan is a TIME columnist, an NBC News/MSNBC political analyst and a co-host of the Words Matter podcast.","image":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt64a6670a2f856944/69888c30bc6cfcd2a23dc453/elise-jordan.jpg?branch=production","url":"https://time.com/author/elise-jordan/","sameAs":["https://x.com/Elise_Jordan"],"worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```