Andrei Cherny

Lifting the curtain on the first set of Project 2029 ideas For nearly a year, Project 2029 has been bringing together hundreds of America’s top policy thinkers to develop new, big ideas that can be part of the governing agenda for this country’s next bright chapter – and yesterday we gave The Bulwark a sneak peek at some of what we’re working on. As The Bulwark wrote: The Democratic policy group Project 2029 is releasing an initial set of proposals in hopes of shaping the fast-approaching...

by Andrei Cherny One of the central beliefs underpinning of the work of Project 2029 is this: The next President needs to not only clean up the mess that Trump made, but also clean up the mess that made Trump. If they are going to do so, Democrats need bold ideas, not more of the same of what they’ve done before. Not everyone agrees. Many look at the 2024 (re)election of Donald Trump – an addled, authoritarian, fraudster, sex offender, and insurrectionist – and believe that not much needs to...

"There's a recognition from the last decade-plus that the same old playbook isn't working," Chad Maisel told Axios. "Project 2029 will put forward an agenda that is bigger and bolder than what people have been offered before." Maisel said the group will not be center-left or left-wing but will publish ideas from across the Democratic Party. Like the pro-Trump Project 2025 before it, Project 2029 plans to release dozens of policy proposals and ultimately compile them into one large book as a...