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Democratic Party
What Comes After Trickle-Down Economics? If Biden really wants to get beyond the neoliberal consensus, he needs the left.
By Sarah Jones
Joe Biden Isn’t Going Back But can he get Congress to follow him?
By Gabriel Debenedetti
Democratic Firm Is Accused of Firing Workers for Speaking Up Civis Analytics bills itself as progressive, but ex-employees say they were let go for trying to make the company live up to its values.
By Sarah Jones
Centrist Dems Demand Infrastructure Bill Include Tax Hikes on Rich In a blow for the left, moderates say that they will only support Biden’s multitrillion-dollar green jobs plan if it includes a corporate tax hike.
By Eric Levitz
The DCCC Blacklist Is No More Vendors will no longer be penalized for working with progressive primary candidates.
By Sarah Jones
president biden
Jan. 20, 2021
In Inaugural, Biden Calls for Unity (Against Trump’s GOP) The president’s speech was a call for reconciliation — on Blue America’s terms.
By Eric Levitz
How BidenWorld Is Scrambling to Prepare for January 21 His much-needed recovery agenda will have to weave its way through a Washington that is about to be increasingly distracted by Trump’s re-impeachment.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
Arnold Schwarzenegger Draws His Sword and Condemns Insurrection in Video Address “President-elect Biden, we wish you great success as our president. If you succeed, our nation succeeds.”
By Rebecca Alter
capitol riot
Jan. 8, 2021
Biden’s Top Hill Allies: We Got This, You Focus on Taking Over The incoming president struck a milder tone than Democrats in Congress who want to expel Republicans and impeach Trump again.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
The Left’s Most Naïve Cynics Have Turned on AOC Left-wing media personalities are calling on House progressives to force a floor vote on Medicare for All — or reveal themselves to be frauds.
By Eric Levitz
democratic party
Dec. 16, 2020
AOC Is Right About Pelosi and Schumer The left-wing Democrat and her moderate colleagues find a rare point of agreement: Their leaders have been around too long.
By Sarah Jones
democratic party
Dec. 14, 2020
Democrats Have a Problem. ‘Workers, Wages, Weed’ May Be the Answer. The party needs a clear national brand with strong appeal to non-college-educated voters.
By Eric Levitz
biden cabinet
Dec. 10, 2020
Biden’s Cabinet Picks Are Getting Weird With Susan Rice’s nomination to the Domestic Policy Council, it’s starting to feel like Biden is just having ex-colleagues draw jobs out of a hat.
By Eric Levitz
contested election
Dec. 8, 2020
Why Trump Thinks ‘Stop the Steal’ Could Help Him Win in 2024 Trump may be channeling his favorite predecessor, Andrew Jackson, who won after a campaign of vengeance for an alleged stolen election.
By Ed Kilgore
2020 election
Nov. 19, 2020
DNC Chair Tom Perez: We Avoided ‘Catastrophe’ Why the top Democrat isn’t too worried about how this election went or how the next one will go.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
the new kids
Nov. 13, 2020
The Squad Is Bigger Than Ever House progressives grew their ranks, but you wouldn’t know it from how the rest of Democrats talk about them.
By Sarah Jones
vision 2020
Nov. 13, 2020
David Shor’s Postmortem of the 2020 Election Democrats must accept that Biden won through persuasion, not mobilization — and if the party can’t change the Senate, it will need to change itself.
By Eric Levitz
Pelosi’s Grip on the House Will Tighten After the Election Democrats should win more seats led by another suburban surge, this one possibly centered in Texas.
By Ed Kilgore
election 2020
Oct. 28, 2020
Pop-Culture Reunions Are the Democrats’ Not-So-Secret Weapon It’s still unclear what effect these events will have on the election, but it is clear that this is one place the Trump campaign simply can’t compete.
By Jen Chaney
Jared Kushner Told the Truth About Republicans and Black People The president’s son-in-law said what a lot of conservatives really believe.
By Sarah Jones
Attica Scott: Dems Didn’t Have My Back After Protest Arrest The only Black woman in the Kentucky legislature is ready for change, especially after Breonna Taylor. Is her party?
By Sarah Jones
vision 2021
Sept. 8, 2020
Biden 2020: Change That Wall Street Liberals Can Believe In? Biden seems interested in redistributing income, but not in challenging the private power of his party’s favorite industries.
By Eric Levitz
just asking questions
Sept. 1, 2020
What’s the Matter With Populism? Nothing. Historian Thomas Frank wants to reclaim real American populism from both liberal detractors and conservative pretenders.
By Park MacDougald
massachusetts
Aug. 28, 2020
How Markey and Kennedy Are Closing Out Their Brutal Primary ‘Family fights are the most vicious fights’: inside the ugly final days of the year’s most contentious Senate primary race.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
Democratic National Convention, Day 4: Live Updates Follow along with Intelligencer staff for the fourth and final day of the virtual convention, featuring Mayor Pete, Tammy Duckworth, and Joe Biden.
By Intelligencer Staff
vision 2021
Aug. 20, 2020
Biden Has Nothing to Fear But Fear of Deficits Itself A Biden aide just warned that Trump’s deficits will leave little room for new spending. That kind of thinking could doom a post-pandemic recovery.
By Eric Levitz
democratic national convention
Aug. 20, 2020
At the DNC, Democrats Put Social Liberalism Above Political Caution The Electoral College overrepresents culturally conservative whites. Democrats used their convention to defend the rights of the marginalized anyway.
By Eric Levitz
vision 2020
Aug. 12, 2020
Joe Biden Sees the Future in Kamala Harris He’s not just planning for the next three months, or even the next four years — but for what comes after.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
How the Final Stretch of Biden’s VP Search Is Playing Out It’s been an abnormal, increasingly contentious process, but the wait is finally almost over.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
just asking questions
July 17, 2020
David Shor’s Unified Theory of American Politics A socialist data scientist (and supposed cancel-culture victim) details all he learned from eight years at the apex of Democratic consulting.
By Eric Levitz
super tuesday
Mar. 4, 2020
Bernie’s Revolution Failed. But His Movement Can Still Win. Super Tuesday disproved the senator’s theory of electoral politics. But if the left learns from his mistakes, victory remains possible.
By Eric Levitz
vision 2020
Feb. 29, 2020
Who’s Afraid of Bernie Sanders? How a debate over its nominating procedure could set the course for the Democratic party’s future.
By Sarah Jones
vision 2020
Feb. 23, 2020
No, You Drop Out: Why Bernie’s Rivals Are All Stubbornly Staying in the Race Anti-Sanders moderates generally agree that the field needs to shrink for anyone else to have a chance, but no one is ready to walk away.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
vision 2020
Feb. 22, 2020
Why Bernie Is Not George McGovern and 2020 Isn’t 1972 Sanders has a vastly better opportunity to win a general election than McGovern did, but it may require uniting the Democratic Party first.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Feb. 17, 2020
What Obama Is Saying in Private About the Democratic Primary Sure, he’s got thoughts about Sanders and Bloomberg — and others in the field. But keeping mum is part of a much bigger plan.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has Already Changed D.C. It Hasn’t Changed Her Much. She reshaped her party’s agenda, resuscitated Bernie Sanders’s campaign, and hardly has a friend in town.
By David Freedlander
impeachment
Dec. 17, 2019
Swing-District Dems Move to Yes on Impeachment, Majority of Public in Favor Of the 31 Democrats in swing districts where an impeachment vote could shake their support, more than half have come out in favor of removing Trump.
By Matt Stieb
The Democrats Love Bipartisanship More Than They Fear Trump As Pelosi hands Trump a win on trade, and Biden defends the GOP’s good name, conservatives are entrenching their minority rule.
By Eric Levitz
vision 2020
Oct. 21, 2019
Commies Versus the Klan? Democrats and Republicans Have a Dim View of Each Other Republicans think Democrats are socialists, and Democrats think Republicans are racists. One or both of them may be right, but nobody will be civil.
By Ed Kilgore
Big Tech’s Big Divorce From Democrats Inside the collapsed marriage of Silicon Valley and the Democratic Party.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
the national interest
July 11, 2019
Why a Climate Debate Is a Terrible Idea Once you start with the single-issue debates, there’s no end.
By Jonathan Chait
New York Just Proved That a Better Democratic Party Is Possible Developers used to call the shots in Albany. This year, progressives did.
By Eric Levitz
A Brief Guide to the Joe Biden–Anita Hill Controversy A primer for those who don’t recall the 1991 Clarence Thomas hearings, which continue to haunt Biden on the 2020 campaign trail.
By Adam K. Raymond
Consultants Are Already Deserting Marie Newman’s Campaign Over DCCC Rule The DCCC’s pro-incumbent policy could tip the scales in favor of an anti-choice Democrat, Representative Dan Lipinski of Illinois.
By Sarah Jones
white nationalism
Apr. 12, 2019
White Nationalism Is the Republican Party’s Meal Ticket This week on Capitol Hill, Republicans tried to distract Americans from their complicity in white nationalism. They ended up drawing attention to it.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
social media
Apr. 12, 2019
For Democrats, Twitter Is Not Real Life. But It Could Be. Liberals on social media are not representative of the Democratic electorate. But the activists and elites who set partisan agendas never are.
By Eric Levitz
medicare for all
Apr. 8, 2019
Your Insurance Is Getting Disrupted — With or Without Medicare for All Rising health-care costs are making it increasingly impossible for employers to provide their workers with quality, stable coverage.
By Eric Levitz
Biden Says He Does Not Recall Behaving Inappropriately Toward Lucy Flores A spokesperson says Biden also believes she “has every right to share her own recollection and reflections” of the discomfiting encounter.
By Chas Danner
Stacey Abrams Won’t Be Biden’s VP: ‘You Don’t Run for Second Place.’ But Abrams didn’t reject the idea of becoming a nominee’s running mate later on.
By Sarah Jones
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