In Defense of Democracy
The best defenders of even the narrow ideals of liberal democracy are not the elites who glorify them but the masses of people whom they so often distrust.
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The Green New Deal Is the Only Realistic Option
Liberals and conservatives alike love to decry AOC's Green New Deal as "unrealistic." But what's really unrealistic is continuing on the path of denial and incrementalism we're on now.
While Canadians Struggle, the Liberal Government Is Focusing on Messaging
Canada’s housing crisis is off the charts, and half the country lives paycheck to paycheck. In a classic show of disconnect, some Trudeau Liberals think the party's greatest problem is that people don’t understand how fabulous a job they’re actually doing.
Even the “Good” Billionaires Are Bad
Liberals and right-wingers have the same love-hate relationship with billionaires: both love the ones on their side of the partisan divide and hate those on the opposite side.
“We the People” and the Lone Gunman
The Second Amendment isn't the only problem — it's our whole premodern Constitution.
Donald’s Myths
Liberals won't get anywhere fact-checking Donald Trump, because they have no powerful message of their own.
Why Did White Workers Leave the Democratic Party?
A historian debunks liberal myths about racism, the New Deal, and why the Democrats moved right.
Ontario Looks Right
Canada is not immune to the rise of right-wing populism. Case in point: the recent election of Doug Ford as Premier of Ontario after years of Liberal rule.
How Australia’s Greens Are Winning a Left-Wing Vote in the Heart of “Conservative Queensland”
After the Australian Labor Party’s 2019 election loss to the Liberals, the commentariat bemoaned Queensland’s seemingly entrenched conservatism. Yet as a state election approaches, the experience of campaigners and volunteers on the ground tells a different story.
The Fallacy of Post-Truth
Liberals’ belief in their superior ability to govern has never had the facts on its side.
Radicals and the Berkeley Free Speech Movement
The Berkeley Free Speech Movement is rightly remembered as a crucial moment in the upsurges of the 1960s. Less remembered is the role that radicals, especially members of the Independent Socialist Club, played in that movement.
A Guide to the February Revolution
One hundred years after Russia's February Revolution, we answer your questions about the historic rebellion.
Canada’s Only Social-Democratic Government Has Been Decisively Reelected in British Columbia
British Columbia has historically been dominated by right-wing governments, so last weekend’s overwhelming New Democratic Party win is a significant moment. John Horgan, the first two-term NDP premier in the province's history, needs to set out a more ambitious agenda in his second term.
What Canada’s Social Democrats Can Do Now
Despite a disappointing result in Monday’s elections, the NDP has embraced its most socialist program in a generation. To recover and to win, it must continue to offer Canadians an alternative to neoliberalism.
Only When It Suits Them
Centrist Democrats embraced identity politics in the 2016 election. Surprise, surprise — they’re now working to keep diverse candidates out who threaten their power.
Montana Conservatives Are Stoking McCarthyist, Homophobic Attacks on a Librarian
Montana’s State Library Commission has exited the American Library Association over the sexuality and leftist politics of the association president, bringing together a toxic stew of hysterical homophobia and classic red-baiting to attack public libraries.
The Last Lost Cause
Was the mid-century dominance of southern Democrats essential to the defeat of Hitler and the triumph of American democracy?
Democrats Still Don’t Get Why Trump Won
Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, many Democrats are certain that what cost Kamala Harris the 2024 election was bigotry in the “flyover states.” And that misunderstanding is only going to lock them out of power longer.