The Left

Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren

How Can Democrats Form an Agenda When Trump Looms Over Everything? How Can Democrats Form an Agenda When Trump Looms Over Everything?

Democrats also need to beef up their foreign-policy analyses. 

May 19, 2017 / Robert L. Borosage

Sen. Bernie Sanders

Why Bernie Sanders Wasn’t Invited to CAP’s Ideas Conference Why Bernie Sanders Wasn’t Invited to CAP’s Ideas Conference

The party has a coalition-building problem.

May 17, 2017 / George Zornick

stacey abrams

Georgia Can Elect the First African-American Woman Governor in History Georgia Can Elect the First African-American Woman Governor in History

Democrats, please don’t mess this one up!

May 17, 2017 / Steve Phillips

To the Republic, for Which It Stands

To the Republic, for Which It Stands To the Republic, for Which It Stands

The broad Trumpian vow to “Make America Great Again” chimed in near-perfect unison with the cultural offensives of the Christian right.

May 17, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Chris Lehmann

Jeff Merkley

Can Senator Jeff Merkley Help Democrats Reclaim the Health-Care Narrative? Can Senator Jeff Merkley Help Democrats Reclaim the Health-Care Narrative?

The soft-spoken Oregonian is a relentless legislator and a staunch progressive—and his rise comes at a crucial time.

May 16, 2017 / Feature / Zoë Carpenter

Pramila Jayapal

Pramila Jayapal Wants Democrats to Know That Resistance Is Not Enough Pramila Jayapal Wants Democrats to Know That Resistance Is Not Enough

The freshman congresswoman from Washington thinks that this is the time when progressive ideas can go mainstream.

May 15, 2017 / Feature / Joan Walsh

Keith Ellison

Trump’s Budget Betrays His Supporters. Here’s One That Doesn’t. Trump’s Budget Betrays His Supporters. Here’s One That Doesn’t.

The People’s Budget would strengthen the middle class and promote economic security for all.

May 9, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Asking for a Friend: I Have a Fancy Law Degree, but No One Will Hire Me to Do Good!

Asking for a Friend: I Have a Fancy Law Degree, but No One Will Hire Me to Do Good! Asking for a Friend: I Have a Fancy Law Degree, but No One Will Hire Me to Do Good!

And another reader loves a prickly communist.

May 5, 2017 / Asking for a Friend / Liza Featherstone

What Will Kill Neoliberalism?

What Will Kill Neoliberalism? What Will Kill Neoliberalism?

A roundtable on its fate.

May 4, 2017 / Feature / Joelle Gamble, Paul Mason, Bryce Covert, William Darity Jr., and Peter Barnes

Putin 2016

Again, Is the Possibility of a Trump-Putin Détente Really Dead? Again, Is the Possibility of a Trump-Putin Détente Really Dead?

“Kremlingate” is said to have killed any prospect for Trump administration cooperation with Putin’s Kremlin, but the May 2 phone talk between the two leaders showed it is still ali...

May 3, 2017 / Audio / Stephen F. Cohen

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