Why do they hate us?

The rhetorical obsession with single mothers obscures the root cause of racial inequality.

Baby Boomers are charmed by his rose-tinted revisionism. Younger Democrats see the past more clearly.

Candidates have been cautious when it comes to openly courting American Muslim voters. Such hollow politics hail from an earlier era, and may cost them dearly.

He thinks "The Hunt" is racist. Elijah Cummings, too. That tells us a lot about the president's sinister worldview.

Crank ideas have always flourished in times of great instability and inequality.

A new cohort of left-wing video creators is smart, savvy, and entertaining. Is that enough to counter the internet’s alt-right trolls?

How Sanders’s brand of American socialism emerged from the crucible of the Green Mountain State’s squabbling counterculture

For Democrats in 2020, energizing and expanding the base will bring in far more votes than moving right to grab a vanishingly small psychographic.

With "electability" dominating the 2020 debate, the Vermont independent reminds Democrats of the frontrunner's long, controversial record.

The Democratic frontrunner’s campaign is pitched to white folks who have fled the party. Sound familiar?

While Trump loudly escalates his trade war with China, most 2020 contenders are muted—and that's a mistake.

The revelations about Trump's taxes prove he was a grifter and a fraud, a braggart and a blowhard. In other words, he was the same man he is today.

And this time, it's even eating establishment candidates.

Another four years of Trump will widen the conservative tilt of the Supreme Court. So why aren't the Democratic candidates talking about it?

The limits of a feminist politics of elite representation

The former vice president has been renouncing much of his past, leaving little of his record to run on.

Democratic candidates are embracing New Age ideas to appeal to white suburban moms, but it might turn off everyone else.

His loudest opponents are party insiders who don't represent a political constituency of any significance—and their strategy is self-defeating.

The mayor of New York City was once a hero on the left. His inability to rouse interest in a run says a lot about him as a politician—as well as the current anxieties of the Democratic Party.