Sherrod Brown Talks About Populism, Work, Health Care, War… and 2020 Sherrod Brown Talks About Populism, Work, Health Care, War… and 2020
He’s repeatedly won elections as a pro-labor, anti-war advocate for civil rights and civil liberties in Ohio, where Democrats have increasingly failed. Could he win the presidency?
Mar 6, 2019 / Feature / John Nichols
We Know How to Cut Child Poverty in Half. Will We Do It? We Know How to Cut Child Poverty in Half. Will We Do It?
A new report outlines how to help millions of US children living in poverty.
Mar 5, 2019 / Greg Kaufmann
Progressives Are Starting to Define a New Realism for Our National-Security Strategy Progressives Are Starting to Define a New Realism for Our National-Security Strategy
The weakest response of Democrats to Trump would be to defend the old foreign-policy consensus.
Mar 5, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bernie Has Feelings, Too! Bernie Has Feelings, Too!
Democrats have borrowed liberally from Sanders’s policy book. The one thing they can't claim? His life story.
Mar 4, 2019 / Matthew Zeitlin
Running the Democratic Primary Through ‘Trump Country’ Is the Road to Defeat Running the Democratic Primary Through ‘Trump Country’ Is the Road to Defeat
Yes, I'm looking at you, Bernie Sanders.
Feb 28, 2019 / Elie Mystal
Michael Cohen Destroyed Not Just Trump but Also His House GOP Defenders Michael Cohen Destroyed Not Just Trump but Also His House GOP Defenders
A president who talks like a mob boss got protected by his GOP mob-boss wannabes. Cohen, a former Trump enforcer himself, made them all look ludicrous—and vulnerable.
Feb 27, 2019 / Joan Walsh
Democrats Need to Think Big for 2020 Democrats Need to Think Big for 2020
A safe candidate who seems “electable” might be anything but.
Feb 26, 2019 / Robert L. Borosage
Bernie Sanders Is Making a National Issue of This Strike Bernie Sanders Is Making a National Issue of This Strike
Democrats and progressives need to focus on what the United Electrical union calls the “first major US manufacturing strike of the Trump era.”
Feb 26, 2019 / John Nichols
Let’s Fight for Universal Childcare Let’s Fight for Universal Childcare
It’s good for the economy and consistent with our values.
Feb 26, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Place Publique: The ‘Orphans’ of the French Left Place Publique: The ‘Orphans’ of the French Left
A new direct democracy movement hopes to reconstitute France’s left parties around a European Green New Deal—but voters are still skeptical.
Feb 26, 2019 / Colin Kinniburgh