{"id":306,"date":"2026-11-03T13:13:38","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2026-11-03T13:13:38","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:13:38","slug":"ken-burns-why-im-optimistic-about-the-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Ken Burns: Why I\u2019m Optimistic About the Midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns says he holds an optimistic view heading into this year&#x27;s midterm elections. He argues that something fundamental is at stake in the midterms, going beyond ordinary policy disagreements between the parties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-source\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/11\/03\/opinion\/midterm-elections-politics-ken-burns.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times \u2014 Ken Burns: Why I\u2019m Optimistic About the Midterms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-credit\"><em>AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source&#x27;s. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns says he holds an optimistic view heading into this year&#x27;s midterm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[160,159,59,161,162],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-democracy","tag-ken-burns","tag-midterm-elections","tag-opinion","tag-u-s-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}