Democrats Are Failing Ilhan Omar
Trump is determined to vilify Ilhan Omar and Muslim Americans in general. Democrats have failed to unequivocally defend them.
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Understanding the Immigrant Swing Toward Trump
Liberal pundits have puzzled over increasing support for Trump by immigrants and people of color. To understand the trend, we should look to economic issues and the way institutions like unions and churches affect political socialization.
The CIA Is Not Your Friend
The CIA is rebranding as a rational, progressive arm of the US state. And some liberals are buying it.
The Washington Consensus Supporting Sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela Is Breaking
Twenty-one members of Congress last week called for lifting US sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela, including most of the Squad. The pushback is needed: sanctions are a cruel economic weapon that hurts average people — and has spurred a surge of economic refugees.
A Year at the Zoning Board
Have we ever seen anything like this election season's mixture of anger and cluelessness? Yes, at the local zoning board.
For Top Democrats, Joe Biden Is No Al Franken
Two years after forcing Al Franken’s resignation from the Senate over sexual misconduct allegations, prominent Democrats now have to decide whether to stand on principle or keep silent about the latest assault accusations against Joe Biden. We asked them — and so far, most are choosing to keep silent.
No Easy Answers, Just Bad History
A Vox writer sets out to prove social-democratic policies aided the far right. He fails.
Living, Not Just Surviving
Working-class movements must place social and ecological reproduction at the heart of their vision of the future.
This Year’s DNC Was 2016’s DNC on Steroids
Open contempt for the progressive left, speeches from Republicans, and a liberal class hopelessly out of touch with the moment, this week was 2016’s DNC all over again — and the Democrats are at risk of the same result: failing to defeat Donald Trump.
The Coming Democratic Minority
Without a radical change in its relationship to working-class voters, the Democratic Party is hurtling toward doom.
Democrats: The Party of American Capital
The Democratic Party has become, improbably, the preferred party of American capital. But in doing so, it’s lost more and more of its working-class base.
Bernie Sanders Should Be Kamala Harris’s Vice President
If Kamala Harris really wants to show she is ready to turn a new page in the campaign against Donald Trump, it’s obvious who her choice as running mate should be: Bernie Sanders.
Today’s Evangelicalism Was Forged in the Fight Against Communism and Feminism
To some, it seemed hypocritical for evangelicals to support Donald Trump — not exactly a Christian-family-values figure. But his strong evangelical support was the culmination of the embattled cultural politics that gave rise to the modern evangelical movement.
Joe Biden Is Still Giving Unrestricted Support to Israel’s War on Gaza
US officials suggested that Israel would have to shift to a “lower-intensity” campaign in Gaza from the new year. But Joe Biden is still unwilling to apply any serious pressure, even if his support for Israel’s war threatens to hand victory to Donald Trump.
The Old World
To defeat Trump's nightmarish vision, we can't keep clinging to liberalism's dead or dying ideas.
Nancy Pelosi Is the Past. Democratic Socialism Is the Future.
Don’t let Nancy Pelosi tell you what’s mainstream. Voters want politics that stands for something — not more centrist equivocating.
Populism Belongs to the Left
In an interview, writer Thomas Frank discusses how populism brought together workers, farmers, and all those struggling against the wealthy for a more egalitarian society — and why that’s made it a dirty word for the elite, both in the 1890s and today.
The Stock Market Doesn’t Matter
What does the stock market do for workers’ wages? Nothing.
Giving up on Godwin’s Law
Today's tumultuous political environment resembles the Gilded Age more than the 1930s.
MAGA Loves Jamaal Bowman’s Opponent
Deep-pocketed right-wing Trump backers eager to drive a progressive from Congress are swelling the campaign coffers of George Latimer, Rep. Jamaal Bowman’s challenger in the 16th congressional district of New York.