Political pundits misunderstand what motivates the former New York mayor.

A lifelong obsession with reforming the Democratic Party's rhetoric has trapped the South Bend mayor in the politics of the past.

They don't talk about the massive ways health care and climate change intersect.

On an un-killable trope of campaign coverage.

FDR wasted an electoral mandate on a bid to expand the Supreme Court. It caused lasting damage to his party and the progressive agenda.

Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg came out swinging during the fourth Democratic debate. Is it enough to dent Warren's momentum?

With less than four months before the Iowa caucuses, none of the leading contenders have been able to overcome the obstacles in their paths.

The mayor of South Bend knows how to enchant an audience. Is it enough to overcome his age and inexperience?

Short on details and long on naïvete, the South Bend mayor aims to leave the status quo unruffled.

While most attention was focused on Biden, Warren, and Sanders, candidates at the ends of the stage brought big energy—and big ideas.

It will take more than a few charismatic candidates for Democrats to regain and maintain control of national politics.

There's a gerrymandering problem that Democrats aren't talking about.

Warren and Sanders easily countered attacks from desperate moderates at Tuesday's debate and delivered compelling visions for America.

He and several other candidates have issued plans that appear ambitious only because America's system is so broken.

The 2020 presidential candidate raised a mountain of money last quarter, and a lot of it came from Silicon Valley.

In search of the Democratic Party's fighting spirit

The Justice Department has never prosecuted a president after he leaves office. Kamala Harris wants to change that. What could go wrong?

Mayor Pete and his husband's assimilation into the American mainstream is not some kind of queer failure.

How candidates in the crowded 2020 Democratic field are honing the fine art of turning a phrase