Democrats

Pruitt, Ross, Price, Mnuchin

Democrats Should Fight All of Trump’s Nominees. Yes, All of Them. Democrats Should Fight All of Trump’s Nominees. Yes, All of Them.

He’s betrayed his working-class supporters by naming a cabinet of millionaire and billionaire insiders.

Dec 8, 2016 / Joan Walsh

Keith Ellison

Keith Ellison Is No Anti-Semite Keith Ellison Is No Anti-Semite

The candidate for DNC chair is being criticized for taking positions that are perfectly consistent with the views of the majority of American Jews.

Dec 7, 2016 / John Nichols

J. Edgar Hoover

Neo-McCarthyism and the New Cold War Neo-McCarthyism and the New Cold War

The preceding Cold War generated a prolonged slurring and suppression of dissenting American voices, and it may be happening again.

Dec 7, 2016 / Audio / Stephen F. Cohen

A Proof, a Test, an Instruction

A Proof, a Test, an Instruction A Proof, a Test, an Instruction

Obama is ours, in the deep sense that Lincoln is ours.

Dec 5, 2016 / Feature / Marilynne Robinson

DNC sign

Want a More Progressive Democratic Party? Stop Donating to It. Want a More Progressive Democratic Party? Stop Donating to It.

Who among us can say in a few sentences what the Democratic Party stands for? We can fix that.

Dec 2, 2016 / Lawrence Hess

Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and US Secretary of State John Kerry

False Narratives, Not ‘Fake News,’ Are the Real Cold-War Problem False Narratives, Not ‘Fake News,’ Are the Real Cold-War Problem

Any détente initiatives by President-elect Trump must break with spurious US accounts of the new Cold War.

Nov 30, 2016 / Audio / Stephen F. Cohen

Sanders Supporters in Prospect Park

The Revolution Will Not Be Staffed: How Big Organizing Can Take Down Trump The Revolution Will Not Be Staffed: How Big Organizing Can Take Down Trump

There are millions of Americans just waiting to be put to work. And there’s a hell of a lot of work to be done.

Nov 30, 2016 / Blog / Becky Bond and Zack Exley

Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren Proposes to Strengthen Democratic Spines With a Powerful New Tool: Math Elizabeth Warren Proposes to Strengthen Democratic Spines With a Powerful New Tool: Math

Noting that more Americans voted for Democrats, the senator says her party has a mandate to resist Trumpism.

Nov 30, 2016 / John Nichols

Putin and Kerry

Putin Didn’t Undermine the Election—We Did Putin Didn’t Undermine the Election—We Did

Our election system is embarrassing not for anything Putin allegedly did. Leaders of both parties, if they had any concern for the republic, would move expeditiously to reform our ...

Nov 29, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Jill Stein

Jill Stein’s Recount Drive Is Futile and Misdirected Jill Stein’s Recount Drive Is Futile and Misdirected

I’m all for recounts in any close election—but I also believe in facing facts.

Nov 28, 2016 / Bruce Shapiro

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