A grassroots coalition is fighting like hell to build power for the left. Securing a Democratic win this presidential election is a necessary detour on that path.

Can the retail and service workers who have kept the country running during the pandemic remake our politics?

In the Trump era, long-time GOP operatives are pretending to be tortured moderates. Why do journalists keep falling for it?

If Democrats don’t shred her pretexts for overturning the Affordable Care Act, they will live to regret it.

Despite eye-popping hauls from small-dollar donors in 2020, they’re showing no signs of disavowing big-money super PACs if they sweep the November election.

The make-or-break issue for the election over the next few weeks will be the economy, not the Proud Boys.

The party leadership’s attempt at a bipartisan boost for renewables won only seven Republican votes and alienated progressives, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Some in the party believe the 87-year-old senator is ill-equipped to lead the opposition to Trump’s Supreme Court nominee—so why won’t they do anything about it?

Their leaders’ timidity has failed to limit Republican extremism. So it will cost them nothing to fight tooth and nail against McConnell’s latest plot.

Democratic lawyer Marc Elias is leading the fight to preserve the integrity of the ballot.

Ernest Moniz served as Obama’s secretary of energy. His ties to the fossil fuel industry have only deepened since then. Will Biden give him his old job back?

Democrats can’t go green while continuing to green-light fossil fuel production.

One talks of an “FDR-size presidency,” the other works to calm Wall Street nerves. Which one will create the post-pandemic future?

Cancel the rent. Tax the rich. Health care for all. People tend to like simple policy that does what it says it will.

A well-funded Democratic group is wooing former union members whom liberals have long ignored.

Patricia McCloskey and Kimberly Guilfoyle are a new twist on a dangerous lineage of conservative women.

The first night of the GOP convention was the dying gasp of the party’s feeble crack at right-wing populism.

The race for a cure has put a spotlight on corporate control over medical research. Under a Democratic administration, it doesn’t have to be that way.

The week’s lineup is further proof that the party’s survival depends on racist culture wars.

Chrysta Castañeda could become the first-time Democrat to win statewide elected office since 1994.