Could Vermont Become the First State With Universal Broadband? Could Vermont Become the First State With Universal Broadband?
Gubernatorial candidate Christine Hallquist wants to bring utility populism to Vermont.
Oct 26, 2018 / Evan Malmgren
If You Build a Left Movement, the Candidates Will Come If You Build a Left Movement, the Candidates Will Come
The “what” and “why” of politics are more urgent than the “who.”
Oct 26, 2018 / Column / Gary Younge
‘If We Won’t, Then Who Will?’: An Interview With Chloe Maxmin and Canyon Woodward ‘If We Won’t, Then Who Will?’: An Interview With Chloe Maxmin and Canyon Woodward
Maxmin, 25, is running for state representative in the most rural county in the most rural state in the country—at a time when young political candidates are having their moment.
Oct 25, 2018 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Letters From the November 19-26, 2018, Issue Letters From the November 19-26, 2018, Issue
Fact in fiction… AOC prepares for DC… Performing patriarchy…
Oct 25, 2018 / Our Readers and Elias Rodriques
The 2018 Midterms Have Exposed a Democracy in Crisis The 2018 Midterms Have Exposed a Democracy in Crisis
And we need radical reforms—now.
Oct 24, 2018 / John Nichols
If Democrats Want to Mobilize Young Voters, They Need to Wholly Embrace Medicare for All If Democrats Want to Mobilize Young Voters, They Need to Wholly Embrace Medicare for All
Sixty-nine percent of young Americans support single payer.
Oct 24, 2018 / John Nichols
The Most Important Ballot Measures of 2018 The Most Important Ballot Measures of 2018
Amid the din of election activity, don’t forget the power and potential of the ballot initiative.
Oct 24, 2018 / Simon Davis-Cohen
It’s Getting Lonely on Scott Walker’s Sinking Ship It’s Getting Lonely on Scott Walker’s Sinking Ship
The onetime Republican golden boy has never recovered from his failed presidential run.
Oct 23, 2018 / John Nichols
Voters Must Catch On to Republicans’ Con on Health Care Voters Must Catch On to Republicans’ Con on Health Care
The GOP’s duck-and-cover effort impedes a debate we need to have on providing universal coverage and increasing Social Security.
Oct 23, 2018 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
J.D. Scholten Bets the Farm on Beating Steve King J.D. Scholten Bets the Farm on Beating Steve King
Just weeks from the midterms, an Iowa hometown hero is gaining ground on one of Congress’s most toxic incumbents.
Oct 22, 2018 / Rebecca Zweig