A Bold New Democratic Party
Rep. Maurice Hinchey
With the nation's economy in a slump, it's time for a twenty-first-century New Deal.
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Dems Flunking Trade 101
John Nichols : Economic Policy
As Clinton rewrites the history of her support for NAFTA, Obama needs to prove he understands what's wrong with global trade pacts.
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Time for a Revote
John Nichols : Howard Dean
Holding Democratic primaries in Florida and Michigan a second time would send the message that Americans do not need to accept illegitimate elections.
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A Season of Change in Texas
Mary Mapes : Texas
As a crucial primary looms, Democrats in Texas have gotten the Party started again, as the state continues its remarkable shift from red to blue.
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The Dean Legacy
Ari Berman : Howard Dean
The DNC chair has energized aging, ailing or previously nonexistent state parties.
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Feudal Democracy
Gary Younge
If democracy does not prevail in August, the Democrats will not prevail in November.
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Raise the Bar
Laura Flanders : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
Grassroots Democrats, parched for their party's attention, should play hardball with candidates on Iraq.
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Not So Superdelegates
Ari Berman : Presidential Election 2008
Unelected insiders may well hold the key to the 2008 Democratic nomination. How did things become so undemocratic?
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Progressive Democratic Challengers
John Nichols : Electoral Politics
With the Congressional race under way, the essential question is: will the Democrats be more progressive post-Bush?
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Dems Get New Tools, New Talent
Matt Stoller : Electoral Politics
Democratic campaigns are refining the art of reaching more people.
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Grassroots Reseeded: Suites vs. Streets
Laura Flanders : Electoral Politics
This could be the year that Democrats finally let the people play a role in politics.
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Populism's Candidate
Christopher Hayes : John Edwards
No matter who wins the Democratic election, the John Edwards campaign has set the domestic agenda for the entire field.
2007
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Fear on the Campaign Trail
Glenn Hurowitz : Electoral Politics
As Democratic candidates strive to keep their messages upbeat and cheerful, they should take a lesson from the environmental movement on the power of fear to motivate political change.
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Fumbling Florida
Bob Moser : Electoral Politics
Have Democrats already blown the biggest swing state?
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Debating for Dummies
Eric Alterman : Media Analysis
At the Las Vegas Democratic debate, CNN Anchors Blitzer and Malvaux twisted legitimate questions into "gotcha" traps. There's gotta be a better way.
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The Coming Foreclosure Tsunami
As Congress grapples with the wave of foreclosures and bankruptcies resulting from the subprime mess, why are some Dems siding with the banks?
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America's Empty Pockets
The President is determined to bankrupt the nation, morally and financially. And who in Congress has the will to stop him?
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Whatever Happened to the Eight-Hour Day?
Steve Early & Suzanne Gordon : Wages & Hours
Americans spend more time on the job than workers in any other country. Isn't it time presumably labor-friendly Democrats did something about it?
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Bush's Deceitful Smiles
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush
A deceitful President, masking the chaos his $3 trillion war has unleashed with photo-ops from Iraq, now confronts cynical Democrats in Congress poised to write another check, willfully blind to the waste of US and Iraqi lives.
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How the Democrats Blew It in Only 8 Months
Alexander Cockburn : George W. Bush Administration
Are we better off or worse since the Democrats won back Congress?
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Purple America
Bob Moser : Presidential Election 2008
Democrats are poised to seize a historic opportunity to win back voters in the South and West they started losing four decades ago.
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Dems Sell Out on Trade
The so-called bipartisan compromise on trade is a bad deal for all who seek to reform corporate-led globalization.
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Dems Tangled in Netroots
Ari Melber : Electoral Politics
Working For Us, a new coalition of unions and Internet activists, seeks to reform the Democratic Party from the ground up.
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The Future of the Party?
Habiba Alcindor : Student Movements
Did the recent College Democrats of New York State Convention augur a new day for the Democratic Party?
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The Democrats' Depressing Debate
Bob Moser : Campaigns & Elections
The candidates ignored race, class and religion, and fumbled the key question of how to get out of Iraq.
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Congress, End the War
: Iraq War
After four years in Iraq, America and the world are crying for a way out of the bloodshed. Can Democrats lead the way?
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Bloggers on the Trail
Ari Melber : Internet & New Media
John Edwards's netroots flap only proves that Democrats should tap into bloggers' energy and learn to manage their passions.
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Which Side Are You On?
Jim Webb's blunt talk on populist economics challenges Democrats to craft a 2008 strategy that allows all Americans to share the wealth.
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Showing Bush the Way
Jim Webb's gutsy response to Bush's unconvincing State of the Union message bodes well for the Democratic Party.
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Stop the Iran War Before It Starts
President Bush's State of the Union address proved he is hellbent on going to war with Iran. Here's what the Democrats must do to stop him.
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The Fair Trade Democrats
John Nichols : Ethical Economics
In an interview with Senator Sherrod Brown, Nichols shows that the new Democrats are pursuing a new trade agenda.
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The Work Cut Out for Us
George Scialabba : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
Eight books explore the right-wing assault on American politics and chart a course for a Democratic resurgence.
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The Democrats' First Test
: Iraq War
Do the Dems have the vision to force Bush to pull back on Iraq and rebuild the economy?
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Blue-ing the West
Sasha Abramsky : Electoral Politics
Democrats are on the verge of a fundamental shift in the regional balance of political power.
2006
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The Urge to Surge
: Iraq War
Democrats in Congress must remember that their midterm victory was a clear mandate to reverse Bush's war policy.
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The Katrina Factor
Michael Tisserand : Legislative Campaigns & Elections
There's little evidence so far that Democrats will push for reconstruction in New Orleans.
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The Waiting Game
Expect a flurry of hearings on Iraq when the new Democrat-controlled Congress convenes. But no real action from lawmakers or the President is likely to be taken.
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Kucinich Tries Again
John Nichols : Dennis Kucinich
Yep, the Congressman from Cleveland's running for President again--but first, he wants to fix the Democratic Party.
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The Odd Attack on Dean
James Carville's bizarre attack on Howard Dean exposed an explosive battle for control between Clintonistas-in-waiting and advocates of renewal. This is a good fight to have.
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Power Shifts in the States
John Nichols : Electoral Politics
Democratic gains in Statehouses around the country validated Howard Dean's "50-state strategy" and set the stage for a long process of party renewal.
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Why They Lost
Katha Pollitt : Electoral Politics
It's always a bad idea to rely on your opponents to be knaves and fools. It worked for the Democrats this time. But what about next time?
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The New Democratic Populism
Christopher Hayes : Wages & Hours
Economic populism was the most underreported story of the midterms and will be the cornerstone of any new Democratic majority.
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Dems Rebut Carter on Israeli 'Apartheid'
Jimmy Carter's bold new book on the plight of Palestinians has piqued Congressional Democrats who tailor their views to the Israel lobby.
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Why Murtha Lost
The Pennsylvania Democrat's opposition to the Iraq War and Pelosi's endorsement couldn't match Steny Hoyer's seniority, experience and connections to House Democrats.
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Watershed
William Greider : Electoral Politics
It's time for Democrats to break out of their risk-averse habits and blaze a new trail--if they can only remember how.
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Now What?
Alexander Cockburn : Electoral Politics
The party of permanent war--which includes lawmakers like Biden, Emanuel and Lantos--is regrouping for a counterattack, their numbers refreshed by a phalanx of incoming Blue Dogs.
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A Complicated Blessing
Bob Moser : Electoral Politics
Claire McCaskill's victory in Missouri proves that moral politics is growing more expansive--and less Republican--as values voters waken to the moral bankruptcy of the religious right.
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Exorcising DeLay's Ghosts
Democratic Congressional leaders are taking the first steps toward real reform to clean up corruption, rein in lobbyists, limit earmarks and insure greater transparency in government.
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Wanted: A Real Leader
Steny Hoyer spouts Beltway conventional wisdom no matter what the cost to his party; Jack Murtha has the potential to help revise our national security and economic priorities. Is there really a choice here?
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Measuring the Mandate
John Nichols : Electoral Politics
Democrats will claim their electoral mandate by understanding how they won: by fielding activist candidates with a clear antiwar message and by defending civil liberties.
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Bad Day in CA
While Democrats on the national level dream of a landslide, in California, the party is facing another electoral debacle.
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Netroots Challenge Dems' Electoral Strategy
Ari Melber : Internet & New Media
Democratic House candidates who once were long shots now have a crack at winning. Will party power-brokers lend them a hand?
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Pelosi's Moment
If Democrats take control of the House, they could revitalize national politics by convincing reluctant senators and presidential candidates to embrace a more progressive agenda.
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Repainting Statehouses Blue
John Nichols : Gubernatorial Campaigns & Elections
If current trends hold, Democratic governors will soon be popping up all over the country, and with them comes a greater opportunity to challenge the Bush Administration.
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Orgasms and Wargasms
America can't talk about the legalization of torture or about Iraq, where soldiers are raping girls and shooting families at close range. It stands to reason they are now obsessed by a Congressional sex scandal.
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Gas Pump Politics
Nicholas von Hoffman : Electoral Politics
Will Democrats lose 50,000 votes every time the price of gasoline drops? If they do, don't blame the GOP (they don't have that much power). Blame instead the greed of US consumers.
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Accessories to Torture
: Torture
The only thing compromised in the Senate's catastrophic "compromise" of the enemy combatants bill is the rule of law and our democracy's basic principles.
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Single-Issue Solipsism
Katha Pollitt : Reproductive Rights
NARAL ProChoice America wants its sisters in Connecticut to support Joe Lieberman. Are they out of their minds?
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The Growing Wage Gap
A winning economic strategy for Democrats: Push for realistic policies to relieve workers' frustrations, rebuild their damaged confidence and improve lifetime security.
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What Can Sherrod Brown Do for the Democrats?
John Nichols : Legislative Campaigns & Elections
The road to the Democrats' renewal runs through Ohio, and Sherrod Brown is on it, looking for the towns his party forgot and the voters who got away.
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No Clear Antiwar Signal
John Nichols : Campaigns & Elections
Anyone looking for a signal from the primaries that Democrats will be a clear antiwar party didn't get it.
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Truth Time for Democrats
Democrats must transcend all their intraparty squabbles over the war in Iraq and focus on the obligation of politicians to be honest with the public.
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Lamont Wins
: Legislative Campaigns & Elections
As the Democratic Party embraces Ned Lamont, it must also embrace his antiwar message: It proved a winning strategy for Connecticut, and will be for the midterm elections.
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Ned Lamont's Digital Constituency
Liberal bloggers were just one aspect of a sophisticated netroots strategy that led Ned Lamont to victory. Lamont must now leverage his digital constituency to force Joe Lieberman to drop his independent bid and win the support of a broad spectrum of voters.
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Say Goodnight, Joe
Without a motivated base, fundraising capacity or resonant message, Joe Lieberman is now in free-fall, lacking the strength and credibility to run as an independent.
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Lieberman Digs In
In New Haven, Joe Lieberman dismissed questions about a possible independent run if he is defeated in today's primary by antiwar candidate Ned Lamont and declared if re-elected to the Senate, he would not change his ways.
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A Fight for the Party's Soul
The Lamont/Lieberman Democratic primary race is a referendum not only on the Iraq War but on a new vision for the Democratic Party.
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Web, Lieberman and the Netroots
Ari Melber : Internet & New Media
As progressive bloggers seek the ouster of Joe Lieberman, they have recruited "Reagan Democrat" Jim Webb to challenge George Allen in Virginia. What does this say about netroots Democrats' emerging electoral strategy--if there is one?
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Shifting Winds on Iraq
Peace sentiments are rising among the American public and even in the much-divided Democrats. What does this mean for electoral politics and for the course of a war that seems to have no end in sight?
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Where's the Plan, Democrats?
Elections are decided by message, money and mobilization. The Democrats' choice of tactics for the latter may determine not only the outcome of the '06 elections but the party's future.
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Moving Toward the Exit
: Iraq War
Americans know it's time to end the US presence in Iraq. They will reward the party that offers a plan for leaving before more American soldiers--and countless Iraqis--are killed.
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Frank Church's Quixotic Vision
A Father's Day remembrance of a courageous politician who, in an earlier era, challenged America to resist the apostles of fear who would barter liberty for false security.
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Fighting for a Fair Vote
John Nichols : Voters & Voting
Voting debacles in Florida and Ohio have inspired a new crop of Democratic candidates to run for Secretary of State, transforming an oft-neglected post into a platform for activism.
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On the Move
It's time for conviction, not caution, as Democratic voters show they would support a party that promised the country a course correction--an exit from Iraq and an end to corruption and the ineptitude of the GOP.
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The Race to Replace Arnold: Running on Empty
The limp grassroots response to Democratic gubernatorial candidates reveals that the plummeting popularity of one party doesn't automatically translate into support for the other.
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Hawks for Withdrawal
As centrist Democrats slowly but surely unite around a plan for military withdrawal from Iraq that is heavy with hawkish reasoning, what are the implications for the peace movement?
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The New Kerry
After years of vacillation, John Kerry has gone bold, finding his voice on Iraq and national security and thinking hard about running for President. But his future cannot be separated from his past.
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Help Wanted: GOP Managers
With executive pay scales soaring, only bumblers are willing to work for the Bush Administration.
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No to Prowar Democrats
Upcoming primary challenges are forcing Democratic incumbents in Congress to be more critical of Bush and to press for a plan to bring the troops home.
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$13,700 an Hour
Katrina vanden Heuvel : Wages & Hours
The Democratic Party needs to reset its moral compass and close the gap between workers' pay and CEO salary by raising the minimum wage.
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Where's 'Real Security'?
William D. Hartung : Terrorism Targeting the US
Instead of parroting the Republicans' "tough" approach to national security, Democratic candidates should distinguish themselves from the Bush Administration by, for starters, setting a date for withdrawal from Iraq.
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Why There's No Strategy to End This War
When Democrats ignored Russ Feingold's motion to censure the President, they provided more evidence that there is no visible national strategy to end the war and bring the troops home.
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Iraq: The Democrats' Dilemma
With Bush's popularity dropping and Iraq in chaos, Democrats must provide clear leadership without making themselves targets of political assassination by the right. How can they do that when the master story in the media depicts a party in disarray?
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A Peculiar Politician
William Greider : Russell Feingold
Senator Russell Feingold should be praised for calling on the Senate to censure the President for breaking the law and lying about his domestic spying program. Instead, he's mocked by the media and abandoned by many of his own party.
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The Democrats: Still Ducking
Ari Berman : Legislative Campaigns & Elections
Eight months ahead of the 2006 midterm vote, Democrats are either ignoring Iraq or supporting the war while criticizing Bush's prosecution of it. But it's not too late to mount a strong opposition.
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The Better Choice in Ohio
Sherrod Brown is the right candidate to be the Democratic Senate nominee in Ohio because he has the support of grassroots voters whose energy is essential to win.
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How Not to Spot a Terrorist
Alexander Cockburn : National Security Administration (NSA)
The NSA's use of artificial intelligence for "data-mining" surveillance is not only constitutionally illegal, but a technological fantasy. Why aren't the Democrats challenging it?
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Reap the Whirlwind
The rise of Samuel Alito and the death of Coretta Scott King mark the end of an era and the abandonment of our civil rights legacy by both political parties.
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A Warning Bell
William Greider : U.S. Economy
Democrats can capitalize on the current economic stall and gain control of Congress with a return to bedrock principles: creating jobs, restoring incomes and rescuing families from debt.
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Are Voters Ready to Dump Lieberman?
Evidence is mounting that Connecticut Democrats are dismayed by Senator Joseph Lieberman's support of President Bush and the Iraq War, giving impetus to assertions that voters are ready to dump him.
2005
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The Year of Vanished Credibility
Alexander Cockburn : Political Analysis
2005 added up to this: No credibility for the President, or for the Democrats, or for the New York Times, which took a year to figure out whether the Constitution is worth fighting for. 2006 should be exciting.
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Minority/Majority
While the Democratic Leadership Council issued a report advising Democrats to behave more like Republicans, Senator Russ Feingold has transcended party lines, forging a large, bipartisan coalition to revise the Patriot Act to better protect Americans' civil liberties.
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Rebels
William Greider : Electoral Politics
With persistence and strong convictions, insurgents can change a political party. Galvanized by the war and disgusted with weak-spined party leaders, rank-and-file Democrats may at last be ready to bite back.
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Middlemarch
The GOP is an object of popular loathing, yet prospects seem dim for ousting it from power. Three new books explain why: Off Center explores the GOP's genius for subverting the mechanisms of accountability, and Death by a Thousand Cuts and Stand Up Fight Back examine how the Republican machine dominates issues from tax cuts to energy conservation. Plus, the Clinton biography The Survivor looks at the man who once made liberals feel like winners, yet whose legacy holds them back.
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The Faith of Eugene McCarthy
Eugene McCarthy, the Minnesota senator, frequent presidential candidate and poet who died Saturday at age 89, never had a chance at the Democratic nomination in 1968. But his passionate anti-Vietnam war campaign would change the course of the war.
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Remembering Eugene McCarthy
Eugene McCarthy's political life was full of contradictions: A conventional cold war liberal and fierce anti-Communist, in the Vietnam era, he was transformed into the standard-bearer of the liberal antiwar movement, a true hero.
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Minority/Majority
David Sirota : US Politics & Government
The Democratic Leadership Council purports to speak for Democrats, yet still employs former Christian Coalition official Marshall Wittmann to parrot dishonest right-wing talking points about the war. Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi joins Representative Jack Murtha to demand withdrawal from Iraq.
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Can the Democrats Win the Ground War at Home?
Christopher Hayes : Campaigns & Elections
Progressive groups that mobilized for the 2004 elections are now dismissed as failures. But though they were unable to defeat Bush, grassroots activists are creating waves across the country. They may be the ticket to Republican defeat and the creation of a new movement.
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The Truth About the War
The truth about the Iraq war may be clear to John Murtha and 60 percent of the American people, but not to the three Democratic senators interested in becoming President in 2008.
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Minority/Majority
While Steny Hoyer seeks to "make himself the first contact for K Street," Nancy Pelosi and George Miller are pressing forward with their crackdown on lobbying and ethics abuses.
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The GOP Retreat
: Senate
Undoing the savage inequalities of the Bush era will require a titanic fight, but the new-found courage of GOP moderates hints that significant changes are in the wind.
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Majority/Minority
Joe Biden buoys up Samuel Alito's nomination by tamping down speculation of a filibuster. But California's George Miller convinced the President to revoke an executive order that would undermine prevailing Gulf Coast wages.
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Democrats and the War
: Iraq War
In 2005, The Nation declared it would only support candidates who made a speedy end to this war a major campaign issue.
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The GOP Takes a Beating
As Democrats gloat over two gubernatorial wins and the defeat in California of Gov. Arnold's intiatives, the GOP approaches off-year elections weighed down by Bush's baggage.
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This Time, Rove's Tactics Failed
David Corn : Electoral Politics
Democrats celebrate electoral victories in Virginia, New Jersey and California, they shouldn't waste time gloating. They need to find effective candidates like Tim Kaine and Jon Corzine who will build momentum.
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Can We Talk?
Eric Alterman : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
Liberals need to find a means to bridge the gap between Americans' belief in liberal solutions and their willingness to trust liberals to enact them.
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Senate Democrats Show Some Spine
Senate minority leader Harry Reid forced Republicans into a closed-door session Tuesday to examine the Administration's use and misuse of intelligence on Iraq. Could Democrats finally be acting like an opposition party?
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Can Dems Say 'Finito' to 'Scalito'?
If the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court becomes the titanic battle that both sides in the judicial wars have been anticipating for years, Democrats must create a new playbook. If they stick to the same old strategies, they could end up wishing that Harriet Miers had fared better.
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Minority/Majority
David Sirota : Political Analysis
While Rahm Emanuel sticks with a "stay-the-course" approach, despite polls that show Americans want out of Iraq, Carl Levin becames the latest high-level leader to make a compelling argument for withdrawal.
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How to Lose an Election
Jonathan Schell : Presidential Campaigns & Elections
A new report by Democratic strategists urges the party to aim toward the center. But what meaningful difference will that make?
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Crony Constitutionalism
Democrats have a chance to stand up for competence, civil liberties and the integrity of the Supreme Court by challenging Harriet Miers's lack of credentials and blocking Bush from using the Supreme Court to expand presidential powers.
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From Lynndie England to Shaquille O'Neal
Americans are becoming more hostile by the day to the war in Iraq, the nation is demoralized over official abandonment of the victims of the Gulf Coast storm, but the Democratic Party is missing in action.
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The Roberts Converts
The political chess match between the White House and Senate Democrats over the future of the Supreme Court took on new complexity as three Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to confirm John G. Roberts Jr.
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Winning the Peace
John Nichols : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
Antiwar Democrats in Washington are facing a moment of truth: Now is the time to raise the volume on the previously taboo discussion of a real exit strategy from Iraq.
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The Power of Fusion Politics
Alyssa Katz : Working Families Party
Two political lines could be better than one: Consider the successful tactics of the Working Families Party.
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Timid Democrats, Muscular Unions
David Sirota : US Politics & Government
A dozen Democrats are feeling timid about opposing Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr., while a score of unions and grassroots organizations are showing muscle against CAFTA.
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Profiles in Cowardice
William Greider : U.S. Economy
Senate Democrats are preparing to take a dive on the issue they have righteously hammered for four years--the estate tax.
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Reviewing the Estate Tax
Two states recently restored the estate tax to fund critical middle-class programs.
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On to Ohio
Christopher Hayes : Republican Party
With Ohio's GOP tainted by scandal and corruption, Democrats see an opening for 2006.
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There's Their Way or the Galloway
The Senate should abandon its comical pretensions to being a body reflecting any democratic mandate.
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Brand Hillary
Crafting a politics uniquely her own, she's making her mark on the Democratic Party.
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Cowboys and Eggheads
Why do Americans trust Bush and the Republicans on national security issues?
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Anti-war, Pro-democracy
: Iraqi Reconstruction/ Occupation
The Democratic Party must become a strong voice against the occupation of Iraq.
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Property Rights and Health Care in the States
David Sirota : Republican Party
State Rep. Wes McKinley of Colorado stays in the minority, while Democrats and Progressives in Vermont move toward the majority.
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An Open Letter to Howard Dean
Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich : Iraqi Reconstruction/ Occupation
Democrats can draw no clearer distinction with the President than over the Iraq war.
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Corruption--a Proven Winner
Christopher Hayes : Republican Party
It led to Democratic control in Illinois.
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Democrat Killer?
Sasha Abramsky : Guns & Gun Control
The West, the future and the political price of gun control.
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When Liberals Collide
The Los Angeles mayoral race raises difficult questions for progressives.
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Picking Up Where the Rainbow Left Off
Conceived as a progressive challenge to the DLC, PDA has organized chapters in thirty-six states.
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Visualizing a Neo-Rainbow
Danny Glover & Bill Fletcher Jr. : African-Americans
History holds clues to a winning electoral strategy for progressives.
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Waxman: Democrats' Eliot Ness
His headline-grabbing investigations are enough to give the GOP heartburn.
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Turning Up the Heat on Bush
Robert L. Borosage : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
Activists are pushing hard from below.
2004
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Debunking 'Centrism'
David Sirota : Corporate Influence in Washington
It's what corporations want, not the public.
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A Moral Minimum Wage
Peter Dreier & Kelly Candaele : Labor Organizing & Activism
The Democrats should start framing economic justice as a moral issue.
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Looking Back, Looking Forward
Various Contributors : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
A forum with Noam Chomsky, Mary Robinson, Mary Gordon, Eric Foner, Van Jones and many others.
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Sex and the Clergy
Frances Kissling : Reproductive Rights
The religious left needs to deal with gender, sex and reproduction.
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Our Moral Values
George Lakoff : US Politics & Government
If we communicate our values clearly, most people will recognize them as more deeply American than those put forth by conservatives.
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Take It to the Blue States
Maybe labor should give up on Washington in favor of friendlier terrain.
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Progressives: Get Ready to Fight
Robert L. Borosage & Katrina vanden Heuvel : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
Applying the lessons of 2004.
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Arizona: Turning Blue for Kerry?
Democrats hope demographic changes will translate into a win in November.
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Closing the 'Religion Gap'
Bringing more churchgoers into the fold poses a complex challenge for Democrats.
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Sharp Tongues for Sharpton
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw : Al Sharpton
Why did the pundits declare the Reverend's rousing DNC address to be "off-message"?
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The Rainbow's Gravity
JoAnn Wypijewski : Jesse Jackson
Twenty years after Jesse Jackson's historic run for President, what does it all mean?
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Victory in 2004--and Beyond
Katrina vanden Heuvel & Robert L. Borosage : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
Election 2004 can help toll the end of the conservative era that has defined US politics for the past quarter-century.
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A People's Democratic Platform
Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
Howard Dean, George McGovern, Walter Cronkite, Ellen Chesler, Margaret Cho, George Lakoff, Bakari Kitwana, John Brademas, Arthur Miller, John Sayles, Chuck Close, Andrew Jay Schwartzman, Doris "Granny D" Haddock, Jamin Raskin, Nell Minow, Lani Guinier, Studs Terkel, Sherrod Brown, Eric Schlosser, James K. Galbraith, Gary Indiana, Jeremy Bernstein, David Bonior
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The Shape of Things
: Presidential Campaigns & Elections
This editorial originally appeared in the July 17, 1948 issue of The Nation.
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Full of Beans in Boston
Michael Blanding : Dissent After 9/11
Organizers hope to provide a positive alternative to both the Democratic platform and the kind of confrontational mobilizations that have led to violence in the past.
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Eugene McCarthy: 1916-2005
Eugene McCarthy, the Senate dove who in 1968 challenged Lyndon Johnson's conduct of the Vietnam War, died Saturday at the age of 89. In this 2004 review of Dominic Sandbrook's biography of McCarthy, Jon Wiener assesses the man and his impact on liberal politics.
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The Goldwater Parallel
Frances FitzGerald : US Foreign Policy
The Democrats can make a persuasive case that Bush is outside the mainstream.
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Florida...Again?
Florida remains the most evenly divided state in a deeply polarized America.
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Say Goodbye, Joe
Robert L. Borosage : Joseph Lieberman
The demise of Lieberman's campaign should represent the end of the line for the DLC.
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Butching up for Victory
Bush projects macho, but it looks forced. Could Howard Dean be the "it" candidate?
2003
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The Redistricting Wars
Sasha Abramsky : Republican Party
The Republican drive represents a power grab unprecedented in scale and timing.
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Needed: A Rural Strategy
Democrats can win the farm and small-town vote--if they pay serious attention.
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Al Gore Moves On
Ibrahim Ahmad, Ari Berman & Sasha F. Chavkin : Al Gore
A speech at NYU offers a stinging condemnation of Bush's leadership on the war.
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Still Clinton's Show?
William Greider : Bill Clinton
If the Democratic Party is to find a sense of purpose, it must get beyond Bill Clinton's influence.
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Racing Into 2004
John Nichols : Presidential Election 2004
The campaigning has never been this intense this early.
2002
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Going Down the Road
Jim Hightower : Gap Between Wealth & Poverty
Don't despair, our base is still there, still huge and still available for building a progressive future.
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Failed Midterms
John Nichols : Legislative Campaigns & Elections
George W. Bush may have lost the 2000 election, but he won the 2002 election--with a good deal of help from Democrats.
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Less-Than-Zero Dems
David Corn : Legislative Campaigns & Elections
The Democrats should be sued for malpractice--or nonpractice.
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Dems Roll Over, Film at 11
Narrow political calculation gives us the phenomenon of politicians hot for war even as polls show that the voters want to wait.
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A New Horizon for the Democratic Party
Rep. Dennis Kucinich : Health Insurance
The Democratic Party must become the party of reregulation, of public control, of public accountability and of public power.
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Progressive Blooms
Katrina vanden Heuvel : Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
As long as there is no bold challenge to the extremism of this Administration, it will exploit the tragedy of Sept. 11 in an ever more regressive direction.
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Enron Democrats
In numerous ways, Enron Democrats helped set the stage for the current scandal.
2001
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Up Against Ashcroft
Democratic criticism of the Attorney General has been extraordinarily muted.
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Al, Don't Run
Virtually the entire Democratic Party establishment wishes Gore were gone.