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Alexandria Ocasio Cortez

  1. early and often
    Bernie Sanders Probably Won’t Run Again. Who Replaces Him?For all the speculation about Joe Biden’s future, there is no obvious socialist successor waiting to run in 2024, but there needs to be.
    By Ross Barkan
  2. early and often
    AOC Endorses Ana María Archila for Lieutenant GovernorIt is a major boost to the left-wing hopeful’s campaign to win the Democratic primary next Tuesday.
    By Nia Prater
  3. politics
    AOC Accuses the City Council Speaker of Punishing MembersHer criticisms come after reports that councilmembers who voted against the budget weren’t included in a fund for district projects.
    By Nia Prater
  4. early and often
    AOC’s New Fiancé Is Charmingly NormalRiley Roberts seems supportive, unpretentious, and comfortable with being invisible.
    By Josh Gondelman
  5. the city politic
    AOC’s Warning for Democrats: ‘We’re in Trouble’The progressive star says she’s been vindicated about Joe Manchin and that President Biden must go it alone to save their party in the fall.
    By Errol Louis
  6. aoc
    The Unprecedented AOCHow a struggling bartender became the face of a resurgent left.
    By Lisa Miller
  7. politics
    It Took Mock Killing AOC for Paul Gosar to Finally Get PunishedThe Republican has palled around with white nationalists and fomented insurrection, but he was finally censured after going one tweet over the line.
    By Ben Jacobs
  8. politics
    Democrats Want to Censure Paul Gosar for Anime in Which He Kills AOCLawmakers are filing a formal resolution to censure Gosar for posting a clip in which his face is imposed on a character who kills Ocasio-Cortez.
    By Matt Stieb
  9. the 99 percent
    Occupy Wall Street Changed EverythingTen years later, the legacy of Zuccotti Park has never been clearer.
    By Astra Taylor and Jonathan Smucker
  10. the national interest
    What If We Had a Class War and Nobody Noticed?Biden’s Washington is a huge fight over whether trillions go to the rich or the working class.
    By Jonathan Chait
  11. 2021 mayoral race
    AOC and Elizabeth Warren Back Maya Wiley in New York City Mayoral RaceHow much of an impact the big endorsements could have for Wiley, who has struggled to consolidate support from the city’s left, remains to be seen.
    By Chas Danner
  12. politics
    Marjorie Taylor Greene Hassled AOC Inside the CapitolGreene followed Ocasio-Cortez out of the House chamber, accusing her of sympathizing with terrorists. A day later, AOC called her “deeply unwell.”
    By Nia Prater
  13. politics
    Andrew Yang Attempts to Clean Up Controversy Over Pro-Israel TweetAfter drawing condemnation from the left and praise from some Republicans, the NYC mayoral candidate said his initial tweet was “overly simplistic.”
    By Nia Prater
  14. politics
    Schumer, Gillibrand Join Calls for Cuomo’s ResignationThe two senators have joined 16 House Democrats from New York, including Jerry Nadler and AOC, in saying the governor needs to go.
    By Nia Prater and Chas Danner
  15. aoc
    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: ‘I’m a Survivor of Sexual Assault’In a powerful livestream on Monday night, AOC also disclosed new details from her experience at the Capitol riot.
    By Matt Stieb
  16. capitol insurrection
    Man Charged in Capitol Riot Called for AOC’s AssassinationGarret Miller reportedly tweeted “assassinate AOC” on the day of the attack.
    By Claire Lampen
  17. the left
    The Left’s Most Naïve Cynics Have Turned on AOCLeft-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
  18. democratic party
    AOC Is Right About Pelosi and SchumerThe left-wing Democrat and her moderate colleagues find a rare point of agreement: Their leaders have been around too long.
    By Sarah Jones
  19. the new kids
    The Squad Is Bigger Than EverHouse progressives grew their ranks, but you wouldn’t know it from how the rest of Democrats talk about them.
    By Sarah Jones
  20. politics
    The Working Families Party’s Fight for SurvivalCan Cuomo kill the left’s best chance at its own political party?
    By James D. Walsh
  21. massachusetts
    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
  22. democratic national convention
    Jill Biden Promises Joe Can End Presidential Empathy DeficitIn her DNC speech, Jill Biden portrayed her husband as a man blessed with the qualities Trump most conspicuously lacks.
    By Ed Kilgore
  23. the left
    What Cori Bush Means to the LeftHer upset win over a political dynasty demonstrates the left’s staying power.
    By Sarah Jones
  24. politics
    Congressman Who Accosted AOC Offers Terrible Apology for the AgesAOC responded on the House floor Friday, saying that her parents did not raise her “to accept abuse from men.”
    By Adam K. Raymond
  25. coronavirus stimulus
    Congress Passes Interim Coronavirus Stimulus Bill for Trump’s SignatureThe measure, which focuses on renewed funds for the small-business Paycheck Protection Program, may be the last bipartisan relief measure for a while.
    By Ed Kilgore
  26. vision 2020
    No, Utopian Centrism Will Not Save Us From the CoronavirusNew York Times columnist Thomas Friedman thinks America craves token bipartisanship and ideological incoherence. That ain’t right.
    By Ed Kilgore
  27. coronavirus
    The Longest Day: Senate Unanimously Passes $2 Trillion Coronavirus Stimulus BillAfter a failed Republican effort to cut unemployment benefits, the largest emergency aid package in U.S. history passed unanimously.
    By Ed Kilgore
  28. vision 2020
    AOC Pledges to Support Biden If He Wins NominationIt’s significant that this important Sanders surrogate is ruling out using the threat of a general election defection to gain leverage.
    By Ed Kilgore
  29. books
    The Politics and Politicians of Millennials: A Q&A With Charlotte AlterTalking climate change, AOC, the youth vote, and the rise of social media as bully pulpit with the author of The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For.
    By Sarah Jones
  30. insurgents
    AOC Wants to Expand the SquadHer new PAC will help elect other left-wing candidates to Congress.
    By Sarah Jones
  31. vision 2020
    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wows Iowa, Probably Not for the Last TimeAOC is burnishing her reputation as a progressive all-star, serving as a campaign surrogate in Iowa while Sanders is stuck in the impeachment trial.
    By Ed Kilgore
  32. alexandria ocasio-cortez
    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Appeases Critics With Something Everyone LikesIt’s a French bulldog.
    By Matt Stieb
  33. profile
    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
  34. the top line
    No, New York Is Not Getting an Amazon Headquarters AnywayThere have been an awful lot of unwarranted victory laps in the last few days by opponents of the original deal.
    By Josh Barro
  35. gop
    GOP Cuts Aid to House Candidate Over Death Threats to Ilhan Omar, AOCIt was the second time Omar faced a death threat from a Republican candidate for the House that week.
    By Matt Stieb
  36. elections of 2019
    Republicans Going All-Out Red Scare in Off-Year ElectionsIn Kentucky and even in the more moderate Virginia, Republicans are smearing all Democrats as terrifying socialists. It will get much worse next year.
    By Ed Kilgore
  37. facebook
    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has Some Great Questions for Mark ZuckerbergAnytime a congresswoman can force a billionaire tech figure to answer a question with “I think lying is bad,” it’s a solid day of testimony.
    By Matt Stieb
  38. vision 2020
    Commies Versus the Klan? Democrats and Republicans Have a Dim View of Each OtherRepublicans 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
  39. politics
    The Popularity of Bernie Sanders Does Not Mean Identity Politics Are OverThe goal isn’t a world where identity no longer matters, but where it doesn’t hold anyone back.
    By Sarah Jones
  40. vision 2020
    AOC Credits Sanders for Her Political Awakening at Bernie’s Big Comeback RallyHoping to reinvigorate his campaign just weeks after a heart attack, Sanders rolled out Ocasio-Cortez, who linked her political origin story to him
    By Chas Danner
  41. vision 2020
    Bernie’s Back. And It’s Make-or-Break Time for His Campaign.The senator and presidential candidate has made his return to the trail, buoyed by an endorsement for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. What happens next?
    By Gabriel Debenedetti
  42. democratic debates
    Bernie Sanders’s Campaign Is Alive and WellThe Vermont senator bounces back from a heart attack with his best debate performance of the cycle – and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s endorsement.
    By Eric Levitz
  43. democrats
    AOC Endorses Primary Challenger to a Democratic PariahDan Lipinski, an anti-abortion champion in a strongly Democratic district, was absolutely the safest incumbent for AOC to oppose.
    By Ed Kilgore
  44. toilet
    Steve King Drinks From a Toilet to Own the LibsThe embattled congressman said that the water from the combination toilet-fountain some detained migrants are forced to use is “actually pretty good.”
    By Matt Stieb
  45. trump campaign
    Trump Campaign: ‘Remind AOC and Democrats That This Is Our Country, Not Theirs’In a campaign email, the president defends the Electoral College on the grounds that the U.S. belongs exclusively to Republican voters.
    By Eric Levitz
  46. house democrats
    AOC Sets Limits on Intra-Party WarfareAOC’s former chief-of-staff called a broad swath of Democratic members no better than bigots. She’s making it clear that’s over the line.
    By Ed Kilgore
  47. inexperience
    President Trump Disdains Inexperience When It’s Not His or His Administration’sTrump’s latest tweets deride AOC and Ilhan Omar for their ‘inexperience.’ He also wanted Ivanka, who is ‘good with numbers,’ to run the World Bank.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  48. ilhan omar
    Ilhan Omar: Trump Has ‘Agenda of White Nationalists’At a press conference responding to Trump’s attack on four congresswomen of color, Omar repeated the call for Democrats to impeach the president.
    By Matt Stieb
  49. trump tweets
    How Trump’s Racism Divides DemocratsTrump’s white-nationalist rhetoric unites his opposition. But his white-nationalist policies divide Pelosi’s caucus.
    By Eric Levitz
  50. racism
    Trump Attacks Democratic Congresswomen With White Nationalist RhetoricWith his reelection campaign now underway, the president is trying out an even bigger dog whistle.
    By Chas Danner
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