The Left

Second and Third Thoughts on Tom Wolfe

Second and Third Thoughts on Tom Wolfe Second and Third Thoughts on Tom Wolfe

He was blithely unaware of how his journalistic cutting edge sliced one family into ribbons—mine.

Jun 1, 2018 / Feature / Jamie Bernstein

Putin Annual Address

Debasing US Policy Discourse About Russia Debasing US Policy Discourse About Russia

Is Putin really a “pariah” and Russia “isolated from the international community”?

May 30, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

Schumer and Democrats

Democrats Are Missing the Opportunity to Offer an Alternative to Endless War Democrats Are Missing the Opportunity to Offer an Alternative to Endless War

The Democrats’ failure to advance a bold progressive alternative to President Trump’s belligerent policies and bloated defense budgets is a huge missed opportunity.

May 29, 2018 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Kara Eastman

Progressives Are Winning Big in This Year’s Primaries Progressives Are Winning Big in This Year’s Primaries

John Nichols on moving the Democrats left, Yanis Varoufakis on Trump and Europe, and Arthur Goldhammer on Paris in May ’68.

May 24, 2018 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Stefan Halper Youtube

Intel ‘Informants’ and ‘Suspicious Contacts’ Echo Dark Pasts Intel ‘Informants’ and ‘Suspicious Contacts’ Echo Dark Pasts

McCarthyism and firsthand recollections of Soviet surveillance practices.

May 23, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

What the Left Can Learn from Losing in Texas

What the Left Can Learn from Losing in Texas What the Left Can Learn from Losing in Texas

Progressive insurgents lost to establishment picks in Texas’s runoffs. What does this tell us?

May 23, 2018 / D.D. Guttenplan

Stacey Abrams Georgia governor's race

The Revolutionary Implications of Stacey Abrams’s Victory The Revolutionary Implications of Stacey Abrams’s Victory

Her campaign bet on expanding the electorate, especially people of color and progressive whites. They won big.

May 22, 2018 / Steve Phillips

Medicare for All crowd

The Democratic Wave Won’t Crest Without Progressive Insurgents The Democratic Wave Won’t Crest Without Progressive Insurgents

The progressive base of the Democratic Party is revolting against the centrist, big-money politics that have proved so ruinous.

May 22, 2018 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Socialism Is on a Winning Streak

Socialism Is on a Winning Streak Socialism Is on a Winning Streak

Four candidates backed by Democratic Socialists of America won Pennsylvania primaries Tuesday, and come November they could all be legislators.

May 18, 2018 / John Nichols

Putin at desk

Who Is Responsible for the New US-Russian Cold War? Who Is Responsible for the New US-Russian Cold War?

A discussion of the Stephen F. Cohen–Michael McFaul debate.

May 16, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

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