Coming Undone: Frank Rich on How the Trump Presidency Ends Coming Undone: Frank Rich on How the Trump Presidency Ends
Plus Joshua Holland on Trump voters and David Cole on the resistance.
Aug 10, 2017 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Democrats Have a Problem. Can These Women Fix It? Democrats Have a Problem. Can These Women Fix It?
In Virginia, first-time female candidates could be the key to taking back the statehouse.
Aug 10, 2017 / Feature / Joan Walsh
This Police-Reform Activist Wants to Be Mayor of New York This Police-Reform Activist Wants to Be Mayor of New York
Robert Gangi is running a long-shot challenge to Mayor Bill de Blasio—from the left.
Aug 7, 2017 / Cities Rising / P.E. Moskowitz
Imagine a Campaign-Finance System That’s the Opposite of Today’s Dark-Money Monster Imagine a Campaign-Finance System That’s the Opposite of Today’s Dark-Money Monster
Seattle just created it.
Jul 26, 2017 / Cities Rising / Jimmy Tobias
How the Left Can Win in the South How the Left Can Win in the South
Bernie Sanders’s crushing defeat across the South should be a wake-up call for progressives—but victory is within reach.
Jul 20, 2017 / Paul Blest
Bernie Sanders Bets on Ben Jealous Bernie Sanders Bets on Ben Jealous
With his endorsements of candidates like Jealous, Sanders is framing the next American politics.
Jul 13, 2017 / John Nichols
This Chicago Politician Is Showing How to Govern From the Left This Chicago Politician Is Showing How to Govern From the Left
In 2015, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa became the city’s youngest alderman. Then he really began breaking ground.
Jul 13, 2017 / Feature / D.D. Guttenplan
American Democracy Is Now Under Siege by Both Cyber-Espionage and GOP Voter Suppression American Democracy Is Now Under Siege by Both Cyber-Espionage and GOP Voter Suppression
The same Republicans who benefited from Russian hacking in the 2016 election have been suppressing the vote for years.
Jul 12, 2017 / Feature / Ari Berman
The Debate Democrats Can’t Duck The Debate Democrats Can’t Duck
The populist temper of the time is rousing citizens across the country. Politics as usual won’t suffice anymore.
Jul 11, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Meet the Vote Suppressors and Conspiracy Theorists on Trump’s ‘Election Integrity’ Commission Meet the Vote Suppressors and Conspiracy Theorists on Trump’s ‘Election Integrity’ Commission
Forty-eight states have refused to fully comply with the commission’s request for voter data, but the order has already sown chaos at state election offices.
Jul 11, 2017 / Ari Berman