Campaigns and Elections

Caveat Lector: Your 2015 Guide to 2016 Presidential Primary Coverage

Caveat Lector: Your 2015 Guide to 2016 Presidential Primary Coverage Caveat Lector: Your 2015 Guide to 2016 Presidential Primary Coverage

Eric Alterman on Jazz at Lincoln Center and Reed Richardson's tips for navigating the upcoming 2016 election.

Jan 12, 2015 / Blog / Eric Alterman and Reed Richardson

Lessons From ‘Selma’: It Takes a Movement

Lessons From ‘Selma’: It Takes a Movement Lessons From ‘Selma’: It Takes a Movement

Pushing this country forward takes more than a sympathetic president.

Jan 8, 2015 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel

What ‘Selma’ Gets Right—and Wrong—About Civil-Rights History

What ‘Selma’ Gets Right—and Wrong—About Civil-Rights History What ‘Selma’ Gets Right—and Wrong—About Civil-Rights History

It took MLK’s activism and LBJ’s leadership to pass the Voting Rights Act.

Jan 8, 2015 / Blog / Ari Berman

Edward Brooke and the Republican Party That Might Have Been

Edward Brooke and the Republican Party That Might Have Been Edward Brooke and the Republican Party That Might Have Been

The late senator, who was once considered a vice presidential prospect, tried to prevent the GOP’s lurch to the right.

Jan 7, 2015 / Blog / John Nichols

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton

Why This Socialist Feminist Is For Hillary Why This Socialist Feminist Is For Hillary

The stalled revolution for gender equity won’t be won simply by installing a woman in the White House—but it can’t hurt.

Jan 5, 2015 / Feature / Suzanna Danuta Walters

Poetry and Voting in the Age of Eric Garner

Poetry and Voting in the Age of Eric Garner Poetry and Voting in the Age of Eric Garner

Poet Crystal Valentine: “Maybe politics aren’t Armageddon enough for us”

Dec 22, 2014 / Blog / Leslie Savan

The Trouble With Democrats

The Trouble With Democrats The Trouble With Democrats

How the party let down the workers who once depended on it.

Dec 9, 2014 / Column / Eric Alterman

Bernie Sanders’s Bold Economic Agenda Seeks to Transform Politics

Bernie Sanders’s Bold Economic Agenda Seeks to Transform Politics Bernie Sanders’s Bold Economic Agenda Seeks to Transform Politics

The senator has a twelve-point plan for getting the debate, and perhaps the movement, started.

Dec 3, 2014 / Blog / John Nichols

An Inconvenient Political Truth: That St. Louis Prosecutor Is a Democrat

An Inconvenient Political Truth: That St. Louis Prosecutor Is a Democrat An Inconvenient Political Truth: That St. Louis Prosecutor Is a Democrat

Ferguson teaches us that in elections for local law-enforcement posts the most fundamental choices are made.

Nov 26, 2014 / Blog / John Nichols

How David Brock Built an Empire to Put Hillary in the White House

How David Brock Built an Empire to Put Hillary in the White House How David Brock Built an Empire to Put Hillary in the White House

The Clintons’ former nemesis created an apparatus to fend off their enemies—right and left.

Nov 25, 2014 / Feature / Michelle Goldberg

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