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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Clintons’ former nemesis created an apparatus to fend off their enemies—right and left.
Nov 25, 2014 / Feature / Michelle Goldberg