Sam Adler-Bell

@SamAdlerBell

Needed: a liberalism that ceases to fear itself.

In her journalism, Malcolm offered devastating portraits of artists, analysts, and frauds. She dreaded receiving the same treatment.

Why did William F. Buckley campaign to free Edgar Smith?

They hate the establishment. They want to destroy the system. Meet the illiberal upstarts trying to remake conservatism.

The Democratic senator has survived in West Virginia by casting himself as a champion of working people. Will his fixation on bipartisanship prevent him from living up to the role?

The president-elect might be willing to compromise with Mitch McConnell on his Cabinet picks. Can liberals force him to play hardball?

Can cop associations’ dirty tactics survive a new era of protest?

After a mountaintop was flattened by coal mining, politicians pushed to build a prison there. Then the community got organized.

House leadership included the measure in a government funding bill—and even members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus went along with it.

Eco-fascism is fashionable again on the far right, thanks to a rise in global temperatures and anti-immigrant nationalism.

History shows that the expansion of the American security state never benefits racial and religious minorities.

How twelve young activists forced a bold idea into the mainstream of the Democratic Party

A new book urges activists to avoid insularity and purism—and to focus on winning.

By proposing robust welfare reforms, Sanders could have hit Hillary Clinton where she is most vulnerable.

The most progressive candidate in the Democratic primary race has been notably quiet about the issue. How come?