Politics

Bernie Sanders supporters

What’s Next for Bernie Sanders’s Grassroots Army? What’s Next for Bernie Sanders’s Grassroots Army?

The campaign may be coming to an end, but its activists plan to keep the revolution alive.

Jun 1, 2016 / Feature / D.D. Guttenplan

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

This Campaign Is So Confusing This Campaign Is So Confusing

Notes from the road to the White House.

Jun 1, 2016 / Tom Tomorrow

Jerry Brown endorses Hillary Clinton

Jerry Brown Delivers a Serious, Savvy, and Important Endorsement of Hillary Clinton Jerry Brown Delivers a Serious, Savvy, and Important Endorsement of Hillary Clinton

California’s governor, who has a history of wrangling with the Clintons and the Democratic establishment, makes a case for anti-Trump unity.

May 31, 2016 / John Nichols

Trump Rolling Thunder Rally

Here Is a List of People Donald Trump Insulted Last Week Here Is a List of People Donald Trump Insulted Last Week

Mitt Romney, Susana Martinez, ABC’s Tom Llamas, CNN’s Jim Acosta, vets, his own supporters—and more!

May 31, 2016 / Joan Walsh

A New Campaign to Hold Wall Street Accountable Emerges

A New Campaign to Hold Wall Street Accountable Emerges A New Campaign to Hold Wall Street Accountable Emerges

Take on Wall Street sets the stage for the next wave of financial reform.  

May 31, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Congress Democrats

Democratic Leadership Is Missing in Action on Mass Incarceration Democratic Leadership Is Missing in Action on Mass Incarceration

Sentencing reform will be a compromise between moderate and conservative Republicans, unless Democrats finally come to the table.

May 31, 2016 / Inimai M. Chettiar and Ames Grawert

Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Reince Priebus

Tell Democratic and Republican Leaders to Get On Board With Ending Mass Incarceration Tell Democratic and Republican Leaders to Get On Board With Ending Mass Incarceration

Past party platforms have not only failed to call for reform—they’ve championed tougher punishments.

May 31, 2016 / NationAction

Obama Hiroshima

Obama’s Powerful Call to ‘Make War Less Likely and Cruelty Less Easily Accepted’ Obama’s Powerful Call to ‘Make War Less Likely and Cruelty Less Easily Accepted’

Speaking in Hiroshima, the president channels Eisenhower’s urging to take “the chance for a just peace for all peoples.”

May 27, 2016 / John Nichols

15-an-hour minimum wage protest

Even After Minimum-Wage Hikes, Workers Could Still Be Getting Robbed Even After Minimum-Wage Hikes, Workers Could Still Be Getting Robbed

The new wage laws will increase minimum wages, but won’t strengthen the wage-enforcement system.

May 27, 2016 / Michelle Chen

Sanders Oregon Rally

Sanders Has Always Wanted to Debate Trump—or Any Other Representative of the ‘Billionaire Class’ Sanders Has Always Wanted to Debate Trump—or Any Other Representative of the ‘Billionaire Class’

The notion of a one-on-one debate with a Republican presidential contender has long intrigued the Democratic presidential contender.

May 27, 2016 / John Nichols

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