Breaking a Promise, Tom Perez Puts His Thumb on the Scale for Andrew Cuomo Breaking a Promise, Tom Perez Puts His Thumb on the Scale for Andrew Cuomo
By abandoning a commitment to strict neutrality and endorsing in a key race, the DNC chair undermines confidence in the Democratic Party.
May 25, 2018 / John Nichols
Progressives Are Winning Big in This Year’s Primaries Progressives Are Winning Big in This Year’s Primaries
John Nichols on moving the Democrats left, Yanis Varoufakis on Trump and Europe, and Arthur Goldhammer on Paris in May ’68.
May 24, 2018 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Intel ‘Informants’ and ‘Suspicious Contacts’ Echo Dark Pasts Intel ‘Informants’ and ‘Suspicious Contacts’ Echo Dark Pasts
McCarthyism and firsthand recollections of Soviet surveillance practices.
May 23, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen
What the Left Can Learn from Losing in Texas What the Left Can Learn from Losing in Texas
Progressive insurgents lost to establishment picks in Texas’s runoffs. What does this tell us?
May 23, 2018 / D.D. Guttenplan
Stacey Abrams Makes History Stacey Abrams Makes History
Meanwhile, it’s yet another good night for women in Democratic primaries across the country.
May 23, 2018 / Joan Walsh
The Revolutionary Implications of Stacey Abrams’s Victory The Revolutionary Implications of Stacey Abrams’s Victory
Her campaign bet on expanding the electorate, especially people of color and progressive whites. They won big.
May 22, 2018 / Steve Phillips
Democrats’ New Midterm Approach: It’s the Corruption, Stupid Democrats’ New Midterm Approach: It’s the Corruption, Stupid
A new strategy attacks both Trump’s economic heists and the influence peddlers swarming the White House.
May 22, 2018 / David Dayen
The Democratic Wave Won’t Crest Without Progressive Insurgents The Democratic Wave Won’t Crest Without Progressive Insurgents
The progressive base of the Democratic Party is revolting against the centrist, big-money politics that have proved so ruinous.
May 22, 2018 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Why Are So Many Democrats Afraid of Impeachment? Why Are So Many Democrats Afraid of Impeachment?
Party leaders need to make clear that impeachment is always valid when there is evidence of presidential wrongdoing, cover-ups, and corruption of justice.
May 21, 2018 / John Nichols
Net Neutrality Just Became a Major Campaign Issue for 2018 and Beyond Net Neutrality Just Became a Major Campaign Issue for 2018 and Beyond
A bipartisan vote in favor of digital democracy in the Senate signals that the fight for a free and open Internet is far from finished.
May 17, 2018 / John Nichols