What Was the Cracker Barrel Skirmish Really About? (Hint: Distracting From Real Crises Facing the Heartland.) What Was the Cracker Barrel Skirmish Really About? (Hint: Distracting From Real Crises Facing the Heartland.)
Trump is repaying rural voters’ loyalty by shafting them.
Sep 9, 2025 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Old, Wealthy Democrats Are Sabotaging Their Own Party Old, Wealthy Democrats Are Sabotaging Their Own Party
The problem of gerontocracy includes the donor class.
Sep 5, 2025 / Jeet Heer
People “Are Tired of Backroom Decisions”: A Conversation With Minneapolis’s Omar Fateh People “Are Tired of Backroom Decisions”: A Conversation With Minneapolis’s Omar Fateh
The Minnesota state senator won Minneapolis’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party endorsement for mayor—but the state-level party revoked it.
Sep 5, 2025 / Q&A / Peter Lucas
Stephen Miller Calls Democrats a “Domestic Extremist Organization” Stephen Miller Calls Democrats a “Domestic Extremist Organization”
Congressional Democrats should demand that he retract his grotesque claims or resign.
Sep 3, 2025 / Anthony Barnett
What the Democrats Can Learn From Gavin Newsom’s Trump Mockery What the Democrats Can Learn From Gavin Newsom’s Trump Mockery
As Democrats sharpen their online game, Gavin Newsom’s Trump-style jabs reveal both the risks and rewards of fighting fire with fire in an attention economy built for bluster.
Sep 3, 2025 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
How Democrats Flubbed the Gerrymandering Arms Race How Democrats Flubbed the Gerrymandering Arms Race
New York State is a case study in Democrats’ failure to understand the evolving political landscape.
Aug 29, 2025 / Elie Mystal
American Democracy, RIP American Democracy, RIP
The bulwarks of self-government have given way under multiple MAGA putsches. Instead of pledging to protect our democracy, Democrats need a plan to restore it
Aug 26, 2025 / David Faris
Graham Platner Is the Real Deal Graham Platner Is the Real Deal
The Maine oyster farmer embodies the populist energy that Americans have been looking for. He’s the best candidate to defeat Republican Senator Susan Collins.
Aug 26, 2025 / Aaron Regunberg
Democrats Need to Stop Letting Trump Set the Terms of Engagement Democrats Need to Stop Letting Trump Set the Terms of Engagement
With every White House action, from mass deportation to domestic deployment of federal troops the “opposition party” has accepted the premise and failed to offer an alternative.
Aug 22, 2025 / Chris Lehmann
The DNC Chair Proposes Major Reforms to Limit Big Money The DNC Chair Proposes Major Reforms to Limit Big Money
Party building vs. candidate addiction has never been more urgent.
Aug 22, 2025 / Larry Cohen