Democrats

Canvassers in Vermont looking at a turf map

In Vermont, Voters Could Make Abortion a Constitutional Right In Vermont, Voters Could Make Abortion a Constitutional Right

This November, the state could become one of the first in the country to ratify a constitutional amendment declaring a right to personal reproductive autonomy.

Oct 27, 2022 / Amy Littlefield

Republicans Have Spent Millions on Youth Outreach. And It’s Working.

Republicans Have Spent Millions on Youth Outreach. And It’s Working. Republicans Have Spent Millions on Youth Outreach. And It’s Working.

Kyle Spencer’s new book Raising Them Right shows how the conservative establishment has recruited and trained new generations of activists over the last 60 years.

Oct 26, 2022 / Q&A / Julian Epp

Democrats Have Helped Working-Class Americans. They Need to Say So Loudly.

Democrats Have Helped Working-Class Americans. They Need to Say So Loudly. Democrats Have Helped Working-Class Americans. They Need to Say So Loudly.

The Biden administration’s victories aren’t boosting Democrats’ chances next month.

Oct 25, 2022 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Democratic Socialists of America

Young Socialists Are Sick of the 2-Party System Young Socialists Are Sick of the 2-Party System

YDSA, the youth section of the largest socialist organization in the country, is tired of working within the Democratic Party. Can they create an alternative?

Oct 25, 2022 / StudentNation / Zurie Pope

Biden Needs to Stop Boasting About the Economy

Biden Needs to Stop Boasting About the Economy Biden Needs to Stop Boasting About the Economy

Pollster Stanley Greenberg is the Cassandra warning of Democratic Party complacency.

Oct 24, 2022 / Jeet Heer

Liz Truss Resigns As Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom

Democrats Need to Warn Against a Truss Economy Democrats Need to Warn Against a Truss Economy

The decline and fall of the UK prime minister and Conservative Party leader is a real-world case study for a Republican economic program in the US.

Oct 24, 2022 / Chris Lehmann

Without an Economic Message, Democrats Will Never Close the Deal

Without an Economic Message, Democrats Will Never Close the Deal Without an Economic Message, Democrats Will Never Close the Deal

Abortion and extremism have made the midterms a neck-and-neck race—but the party is still missing an economic message.

Oct 21, 2022 / Editorial / Jeet Heer for The Nation

Barack Obama Is Wrong to Oppose Expanding the Supreme Court

Barack Obama Is Wrong to Oppose Expanding the Supreme Court Barack Obama Is Wrong to Oppose Expanding the Supreme Court

There is too much at stake—and too little time left—to give in to the former president’s caution on this issue.

Oct 21, 2022 / Highlights / Mondaire Jones

Outside a supermarket, a masked essential worker wearing a blue hazmat suit holds a stop sign.

The Death Eaters: Covid in the Liberal Imagination The Death Eaters: Covid in the Liberal Imagination

A call to rescue public health from the dead hand of neutrality.

Oct 20, 2022 / Gregg Gonsalves

AmeriCorps Public Service Program

Biden Should Invest in Communities, Not More Community Service Biden Should Invest in Communities, Not More Community Service

AmeriCorps pays less than minimum wage for anti-poverty work. With a million unfilled public sector jobs, why not create a program that actually addresses our needs?

Oct 20, 2022 / StudentNation / Paige Oamek

x