With the Trump presidency thankfully in its death throes, Joe Biden and the Democratic leadership are in thrall to a dangerous illusion that they can take the country back to the political world of 2015 as if nothing happened. They’re about to learn that they’ve won a Pyrrhic victory.
Bill Clinton is responsible not just for eviscerating welfare, but for trying to end any Democratic Party commitment to the poor.
Republicans didn’t get their predicted “red wave” in the November midterms, but the results were hardly a repudiation of the Right: most of Donald Trump’s endorsed candidates won their races, and the GOP continues to make inroads with voters of color.
The filibuster has been a tool of reaction since its inception. We should abolish it.
The mass inequality of America’s first Gilded Age thrived on identity-based partisanship, helping extinguish the fires of class rage. In 2021, we’re headed down the same path.
Workers rejected Kamala Harris because she chose to campaign in a fantasy world where villains other than Trump are rarely named and nobody has to choose whether regular people or billionaire oligarchs get to wield power.
Democrats must quickly pass their landmark voting rights legislation if they want to prevent Republicans from gerrymandering their way to a hold on power for the next decade.
The Biden campaign's decision to forsake door-to-door canvassing may have cost Democrats dearly in down-ballot races. It was emblematic of the party's disastrous abandonment of face-to-face organizing.
Democrats refused to seize a rare opportunity to outmaneuver Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell. They settled for a COVID relief bill that skimps on benefits, provides tax breaks to the rich, and pulls us toward austerity extremism.
The Civil War wasn’t just a struggle against the South. It was an ideological battle within the heart of Northern society.
History shows that Bernie Sanders's campaign will raise lots of hopes — and do little to strengthen the Left.
After eight years of using shallow “identity politics” as a cudgel against the Left, Democratic pundits and elected officials are now blaming leftists themselves for the fact that such politics took over the party.
Democratic leaders are outraged at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s actions in Congress and are trying to reel her in. It’s a clear sign she’s antagonizing all the right forces in the party.
We should welcome Bernie Sanders' presidential run, while being aware of its limits.
Democratic leaders still haven’t learned: you can’t fight the forces of oligarchy without naming the enemy.
From left-wing ballot measures to socialists in the House, things are slowly — but surely — moving our way.
The Left’s beachhead in Congress has grown in the last few years. But at the current rate of expansion, the Left will remain a minority in the Democratic Party’s congressional caucus until 2091. We can’t wait that long for change.
The good news: in passing the American Rescue Plan, Democrats are finally rejecting the logic of austerity. The bad news: the party did not use the bill to secure essential long-term economic protections for Americans, nor do anything that would anger the wealthy.
The Left shouldn’t wring its hands about whether we should pack the courts or not. Just pack the courts.
The evidence is overwhelming: workers are abandoning the Democrats and center-left parties around the world. Class dealignment is radically changing politics, and the Left needs a program to win the working class.