Campaigns and Elections

The Most Important Protest of the 2016 Election

The Most Important Protest of the 2016 Election The Most Important Protest of the 2016 Election

1,400 activists have been arrested at Democracy Awakening and Democracy Spring, but few in the media have covered it. 

Apr 18, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter and Ari Berman

4 Ways to Keep the Peace When Your Partner Is Voting for Hillary—or Bernie

4 Ways to Keep the Peace When Your Partner Is Voting for Hillary—or Bernie 4 Ways to Keep the Peace When Your Partner Is Voting for Hillary—or Bernie

Advice for surviving the primaries from a mixed-candidate couple.

Apr 18, 2016 / Suzanna Danuta Walters and Laurie Essig

Sanders Supporters in Prospect Park

There Is Only One Way Bernie Sanders Can Win New York Tomorrow There Is Only One Way Bernie Sanders Can Win New York Tomorrow

Clinton has the party machine locked up. So Sanders's supporters will need to overwhelm the establishment and swamp the polls.

Apr 18, 2016 / D.D. Guttenplan

Hillary Clinton NYC campaign visit

Surprise: New York Democrats Like the Democratic Party! Surprise: New York Democrats Like the Democratic Party!

And the Sanders campaign is making enemies with its attacks.

Apr 18, 2016 / Joan Walsh

Kshama Sawant $15 minimum wage protest

Hillary Was Nowhere to Be Seen in the Fight for 15—I Should Know Hillary Was Nowhere to Be Seen in the Fight for 15—I Should Know

Hillary’s “support” is welcome, and a sign that our movement has come far, but let’s be clear: She hasn’t always supported a $15 minimum wage. 

Apr 18, 2016 / Kshama Sawant

Presidential candidate Donald Trump at CPAC.

This Article Is Not About Donald Trump This Article Is Not About Donald Trump

And if you believe that, you’ll believe anything.

Apr 18, 2016 / Tom Engelhardt

27 Percent of New York’s Registered Voters Won’t Be Able to Vote in the State’s Primary

27 Percent of New York’s Registered Voters Won’t Be Able to Vote in the State’s Primary 27 Percent of New York’s Registered Voters Won’t Be Able to Vote in the State’s Primary

New York is the fourth-bluest state in the country, but has some of the worst voting laws.

Apr 18, 2016 / Ari Berman

Bernie Sanders leaves the Vatican

Bernie Sanders Went to Rome to Discuss the Immorality of Unfettered Capitalism Bernie Sanders Went to Rome to Discuss the Immorality of Unfettered Capitalism

Here’s the full text of the speech he delivered at the Vatican.

Apr 17, 2016 / John Nichols

Protest in Chilpancingo Mexico

A Voter’s Guide to Hillary Clinton’s Policies in Latin America A Voter’s Guide to Hillary Clinton’s Policies in Latin America

Support for coup regimes, militarization and privatization, trade deals that wreak economic havoc—they reveal the failure of Clintonism.

Apr 15, 2016 / Greg Grandin

The Democrats’ Fracking Fracture

The Democrats’ Fracking Fracture The Democrats’ Fracking Fracture

Grassroots activists have pushed the needle far beyond the Democratic establishment.

Apr 15, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter

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