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May 1, 2020
Alex Pareene
Democrats Aren’t Stuck With Joe Biden
No one has to tie themselves in knots to defend him if they don’t want to.
April 24, 2020
Magazine
John Patrick Leary
The Airy Ambivalence of the Moderate Politician
April 23, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
The Polarization Problem
Do we need to get more polarized?
April 9, 2020
J.C. Pan
The Profound Simplicity of Bernie Sanders’s Vision
As the elegies for the campaign roll in, its most lasting legacy may be the most basic.
April 8, 2020
Andrew Schwartz
Gig-Working Through the Apocalypse
The app-based economy was already a race to the bottom. The pandemic raises the question of how much lower things can go.
March 27, 2020
Magazine
John Patrick Leary
Why Politicians Can’t Stop Talking About “Folks”
The perpetual quest to win over real, unpretentious Americans
March 25, 2020
Magazine
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Seeing No Evil
The peril of gender-blind consensus thinking
March 19, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
After Bernie
How the left can expand its appeal and change the Democratic Party
March 17, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
The Electability Trap
Do “electable” candidates really win?
March 12, 2020
Nick Martin
A Better World Is Possible Without a Pandemic
The “emergency” fixes being introduced in response to the coronavirus are just a properly functioning welfare state.
March 12, 2020
J.C. Pan
The Bernie Sanders Movement Without Bernie Sanders
The urgency of majoritarian working-class politics is bigger than a single presidential campaign.
March 11, 2020
Walter Shapiro
The Gauzy Myth of the Sanders Campaign
If there were ever hidden armies of Democratic voters yearning for a visionary presidential nominee, then they remain well camouflaged.
March 9, 2020
Magazine
Alex Pareene
The Democrats’ Cult of Pragmatism
Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and other moderates claim they Get Things Done—but not because they actually do get things done.
March 6, 2020
Nick Martin
The Conversations Warren Never Had
She never really gave an honest answer about her complicated relationship with Indian Country, and now her campaign is over.
March 4, 2020
David Roth
The Campaign at the End of the World
For a brief, mad moment, Michael Bloomberg illuminated the rot at the core of this new Gilded Age.
March 4, 2020
Nick Martin
Bloomberg Spent $233,333 an Hour to Lose the Presidency and Wage a Class War
The former New York City mayor’s failed campaign was an act of ritual humiliation—and an investment in himself.
February 26, 2020
Nick Martin
Mike Bloomberg’s Identity Politics
A Bloomberg presidency would be a return to normalcy for America—a daunting prospect for everyone who isn’t white and wealthy.
February 26, 2020
Magazine
Rachel Bitecofer
Hate Is on the Ballot
The hidden dynamic that’s transformed our politics—and will loom large in the 2020 election
February 21, 2020
Alex Pareene
The GOP’s Silly Attempt to Boost a Liberal Candidate
They think she’ll be easier to beat in the general election—and some Democrats agree. New research suggests otherwise.
February 21, 2020
David Roth
Bernie Sanders Is No Donald Trump
Why Sanders’s haters keep finding similarities between two politicians who could not be more different
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