A Good Fight to Have About Medicare for All
There’s public support for the policy, but many voters have questions about how to get it through a Congress that ruins most of what it touches.
Bernie Sanders
The False Prophets of the Childcare Revolution
Business leaders and corporate cheerleaders talk a good game about the importance of quality early care while fleecing working families.
The Democrats Are Finally Brawling Over the Party’s Future
The knives came out in Wednesday’s debate, a portent of much more consequential fights to come in 2020.
America’s Founders Did Not Worry About Politicians Like Michael Bloomberg
The former New York mayor isn’t subverting the American electoral system. He’s exploiting its intentional flaws.
Criticizing Michael Bloomberg in an Age of Anti-Semitism
The rich, Jewish, former mayor of New York is spending millions on this election. Can we criticize him without perpetuating harmful stereotypes?
The Hardest Decision Bernie Sanders Will Make This Year
If he wins the nomination, he’ll have to choose a running mate who shares his values but expands his appeal.
To Dream of a Jewish President
What would it mean for Bernie Sanders, America’s most famous Jewish politician, to become its commander in chief?
How Pundits Manipulate Math to Dismiss Sanders
His rise has led the media to look everywhere except the ballot box for the real winner of elections in Iowa and New Hampshire.
The Media’s Lousy Election Analysis Is Damaging Political Discourse
Pundits are always trying to titillate their audience with new predictions—and failing to account for their past failures.
Bernie Sanders Has an MSNBC Problem
Cable news networks, particularly the "liberal" one, are a growing barrier to his surging campaign.
The Obsolete Politics of James Carville
The Clinton-era avatar of respectable Democratic politics continues to confuse elite opinion with public sentiment.
Joe Biden Is Collapsing
Who's going to pick up his mantle as the establishment favorite?
The Radical Possibilities of Not Paying Your Student Loans
A growing movement poses the question: We have the numbers, so what if we just stopped?
This Is How Bernie Wins
Sanders's New Hampshire operation is a model for fusing movement politics with a presidential campaign. Can he replicate that model across the country?
The Iowa Caucus Was a Media Debacle, Too
The lack of immediate voting results led journalists and candidates to feed needless narratives about corruption and incompetence.
Democratic Hawks Declare War on Bernie Sanders
Maybe they'll win one for a change.
The Panic of the Never Trumpers
As the Iowa caucus looms, this rogue Republican contingent is learning that the Democratic primary doesn't exist to serve its exclusive needs.
The New Majority Behind Sex Work Decriminalization
An exclusive look at a groundbreaking policy transformation. There are lessons for the left to learn here.
Tom Perez Stacks the DNC Deck Against Progressives
A rogues' gallery of influence-peddlers and insider power brokers will run the party's powerful convention committees.
The Eternally Unvetted Bernie Sanders
No matter how much his record has been covered by the media and his ideas attacked, his opponents persist in claiming he has escaped scrutiny.
