Aaron Kleinman is Heartland Media’s Senior Political Analyst, a role where he leverages his deep experience with state politics to inform the public about what’s going on across the country. Prior to his time at Heartland he served as the Director of Research for The States Project, an organization dedicated to achieving America’s Promise by educating people about the states. He’s a Connecticut native and won the state’s 1996 Geography Bee.
Former nonprofit executives keep campaigning as anti-establishment outsiders. The problem? When your career runs on big donor funding, you are the political establishment.
RFK Jr.’s war on the FDA is making "real food" more dangerous than junk food. As a painful cyclospora outbreak spreads through fresh vegetables, a year of federal budget cuts and deregulation has left the agency increasingly powerless to police what we ingest.
Billionaire Marc Andreessen claims charity is pointless, but his AI data centers are facing major public backlash over their staggering energy consumption. Silicon Valley tech giants could learn a valuable lesson in public relations from Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.
Nathaniel Frum says Democrats can win back men by out-arguing sports radio callers about Arch Manning. He's wrong, but not for the reason you think. Sports do give politicians a way to talk about their values. They're just not doing it.
A 435-district map drawn without partisan favoritism shows what fair districts would look like nationwide — more representative, more competitive, and close to guaranteeing that whichever party wins the popular vote wins the House.
A group of Minnesota Republican state senators have shown their priorities for the current legislative session by offering a bill that would use taxpayer funds to create a statue of right-wing provocateur Charlie Kirk.
Aaron Kleinman writes, "Adopting RCV would face too many hurdles and doesn’t seem to solve any of the issues with the primary process. But another option could do the job much better."