Andrea Javor Wrote About What The Democrats Can Learn From Poker

For Newsweek, Andrea Javor wrote about how the Democrats can pick up some political lessons from the game of poker. 

Javor writes, “There’s nothing wrong strategically with bullying the table the way Trump does, but it’s time for Democrats to play bigger. Pick up a book from poker legends like Daniel Negreanu or the late Doyle Brunson and they’ll tell you the same thing: Use your chips to your advantage. Make your opponents commit. Put them in bad spots. Poker is a zero-sum game, take everything you can get by any (legal) means necessary.”  

Javor told Study Hall about the pitching process: “In my writing group we ask each other whether it’s wise to pitch over the holidays and generally agree it’s a waste of time as most editors are out. But, I sent my political opinion piece to the generic Newsweek inbox on 12/30/25 anyway, just because I believed in it. An editor replied within minutes and as luck would have it my piece was about poker and he knew the game. He published it within hours.”