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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
vision 2020
Mar. 20, 2019
America’s Second-Largest Teachers Union Is Trying Not to Make 2016’s Mistake The American Federation of Teachers has rolled out its endorsement process for candidates, and says that it’s prepared to hold Democrats to account.
By Sarah Jones
Ilhan Omar Tests the Democratic Party. Will It Pass? Democrats like Omar aren’t nihilists. They have taken a great chance on the party and its capacity for self-reflection.
By Sarah Jones
post-millennials
Mar. 6, 2019
The Kids Aren’t Alt-Right The long march of the conservative conquest of the Republican Party could finally be coming to an end.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Feb. 11, 2019
Kamala Harris: I’ve Smoked Weed and ‘I Did Inhale’ California’s former attorney general says weed “gives a lot of people joy and we need more joy in this world.”
By Adam K. Raymond
Virginia’s Executive Branch Is in Shambles Ralph Northam still hasn’t resigned, and his potential successor now faces a sexual assault claim.
By Sarah Jones
John Fetterman’s New Fight Pennsylvania’s new lieutenant governor wants to revitalize Trump Country… and the Democratic Party.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
House Dems Hoping to Stifle Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Are Only Hurting Themselves Some of AOC’s new colleagues want her to play by the rules. They’re ignoring what she brings to the party, and what she came to D.C. to do.
By Sarah Jones
2020 elections
Nov. 25, 2018
Inside Bernie Sanders’s Big Decision The discussion the most popular democratic socialist in America is having over his political future.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
vision 2020
Nov. 23, 2018
How Early Voting Could Turn the Democratic 2020 Race on Its Head Will campaigning in L.A., Austin, and Chicago now be just as important as in Des Moines and Concord?
By Gabriel Debenedetti
2018 midterms
Nov. 10, 2018
What Big State-Level Wins Mean for the Democrats’ Agenda After Obama-era losses, Democrats now have control of several more statehouses – and a chance to expand Medicaid, abortion access, and voting rights.
By Sarah Jones
2018 midterms
Nov. 5, 2018
Final 2018 Polls Look (Mostly) Good for Democrats Still, polls remain tight in an extraordinary number of races — and everything from a “blue tsunami” to a “red tide” remains plausible.
By Eric Levitz
Beto O’Rourke’s Case for Irrational Optimism He’s behind in the polls, and the experts have written off his chances. But the crowds are still turning out.
By Andrew Rice
2018 midterms
Nov. 2, 2018
Robert Menendez Is Testing New Jersey’s Tolerance for Sleaze Despite lurid corruption charges, the Democrat is still favored to win his Senate race. But will voters have last-minute doubts?
By David Freedlander
2018 midterms
Oct. 29, 2018
The Smart Bets for Last-Minute Democratic Donors A reminder: down-ballot races can reap huge returns on investment.
By Matt Stieb
democratic party
Oct. 25, 2018
Gavin Newsom Has More Important Things to Do Than Run for President The next governor of California is preparing to fight Trump and show off his state as a laboratory for progressive policies — including single-payer.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
What Medicare for All’s Sky-High Poll Numbers Really Prove Voters aren’t necessarily sold on single-payer. But a supermajority of Americans (and a slim majority of GOPers) do want more government health care.
By Eric Levitz
2018 midterms
Oct. 18, 2018
Republican Hatred for Dianne Feinstein Is Making Her Lefty Opponent Competitive Kevin de León is probably lucky he doesn’t have the money to let his Republican supporters know how progressive he is.
By Ed Kilgore
Incivility Isn’t What’s Wrong With American Politics The term is just a euphemism that lets the GOP point a finger at those fighting injustice, and away from themselves.
By Sarah Jones
Red State Democrats Can Do Better Than Joe Manchin Manchin’s Kavanaugh vote and recent strides by red state progressives raise questions about the wisdom of Dems settling for conservative candidates.
By Sarah Jones
Cory Booker Wants to Give You a Hug, and Be Your Next President He’s ready to run the most optimistic, earnest, emotionally present campaign in history — and is betting that’s what Trump’s America is ready for.
By Jonathan Van Meter
2020 elections
Sept. 11, 2018
The Case for Michael Avenatti 2020 The celebrity lawyer’s stunt candidacy just might teach Democrats that they can’t make progress without breaking a few norms.
By Eric Levitz
primaries 2018
Sept. 5, 2018
The Stunning Moment When Ayanna Pressley Realized She Won Her Primary Her surprising win will likely make her the first black congresswoman from Massachusetts.
By Amanda Arnold
democratic party
Aug. 25, 2018
Democrats Vote to Strip Power From Superdelegates, Reform Caucuses Following the contentious 2016 primaries, the DNC embraced the biggest reforms to its presidential nomination process since the 1980s.
By Chas Danner
domestic violence
Aug. 12, 2018
Rep. Ellison on Domestic-Violence Allegations: ‘I Have Never Behaved This Way’ Karen Monahan alleged that Ellison was abusive toward her during the relationship, which ended in 2016.
By Opheli Garcia Lawler
The Radical Labor Policy That Every Democrat Should Run On Forcing companies to give workers representation on company boards is wildly popular, requires no tax hikes, and would almost certainly raise wages.
By Eric Levitz
the national interest
July 29, 2018
Why Are So Many Leftists Skeptical of the Russia Investigation? What to think about Trump’s collusion with Russia has somehow caused a divide among progressives.
By Jonathan Chait
Democrats Must Reject Howard Schultz and His Radical Centrist Ideology The Starbucks CEO will never be the Democrats’ 2020 nominee. But he speaks for a powerful segment of the party’s donor class.
By Eric Levitz
How the Democrats’ Biggest Donor Is Playing Into Trump’s Hands Party leaders are worried that Tom Steyer’s impeachment obsession might cost them Congress. And Republicans seem happy to have the conversation.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
Stacey Abrams and the New Democratic Coalition in the South In the past, southern black Democratic voters were expected to loyally support white centrist candidates with rare representation. That has changed.
By Ed Kilgore
What Hurts a Political Opponent in the Age of Trump? In a news cycle jammed with scandals, party operatives are trying to figure out what sticks with voters anymore — and how to unearth those things.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
Bernie Sanders Is Quietly Building a Digital Media Empire His live videos now regularly draw more viewers than CNN. So is this a 2020 strategy? It sure could be.
By Gabriel Debenedetti
democratic party
Apr. 20, 2018
Affluent Democrats Aren’t an Obstacle to Economic Populism The class divide between affluent and working-class Democrats is less politically significant than the divide between both groups and the super-rich.
By Eric Levitz
Cynthia Nixon Is Serious About Her Candidacy. You Should Be Too. She’s already won by moving the governor to the left. And she’s beginning to think she just might win the whole thing.
By Jessica Pressler
The Democratic Party Is Moving Left – Except When You’re Not Looking Senate Democrats’ support for an indefensible bank bill shows that when public interest is low, Wall Street can still run Team Blue’s show.
By Eric Levitz
the national interest
Mar. 1, 2018
By Jonathan Chait
Why Rural America Controls the Debates Over Guns and Immigration Our constitutional system gives disproportionate influence to the nonmetro areas that control the party controlling Washington.
By Ed Kilgore
Americans Don’t Understand Election Predictions Expressed As Probabilities All those so-and-so-has-a-90-percent-chance-to-win headlines confused a lot of people in 2016. Some of them may have not bothered to vote.
By Ed Kilgore
Democrats Should Get Higher on Weed in 2018 There aren’t a lot of policies that both energize the liberal base and appeal to a majority of GOP voters. Marijuana legalization is one.
By Eric Levitz
Longtime Clinton Ally Says DNC Rigged Primary for Hillary Donna Brazile claims Clinton bailed out a cash-strapped DNC in August 2015, and immediately gained control of the party apparatus.
By Eric Levitz
Democrats Can Abandon the Center — Because the Center Doesn’t Exist The center is a myth that obscures the genuine electoral risks that Democrats would face in moving left — and the potential benefits of such a pivot.
By Eric Levitz
Democrats Unveil Populist Economic Agenda for 2018 The Donkey Party promises to secure Americans a “better deal” by taking on Big Pharma and concentrated corporate power.
By Eric Levitz
Democrats to Unveil New Slogan Promising a ‘Better Deal’ Party leaders are clearly trying to channel the Roosevelts, but that doesn’t mean their rebranding is going to work.
By Benjamin Hart
‘I’m Worth the Trouble’: Nancy Pelosi Defiant As Democrats Discuss Ousting Her About a dozen representatives met on Thursday to discuss whether there’s a way to force her out ahead of the midterms.
By Margaret Hartmann
Democrats Should Propose an Actual ‘Middle Class’ Tax Cut By neglecting to show voters what a real middle-class tax break looks like, Democrats are making it easier for Trump to sell his giveaway to the rich.
By Eric Levitz
Progressives Need a New Foreign-Policy Vision. This Senator Says He Has One. Democrat Chris Murphy of Connecticut is trying to sell liberals on restrained realism in Syria and other global hot spots.
By Eric Levitz
Autopsy: It Was Obama-Trump Voters, in the Rust Belt, With the Economic Anxiety But, also, the white racial backlash, insufficient Democratic turnout, and James Comey. The new 2016 autopsies prove that everyone was right.
By Eric Levitz
just asking questions
Mar. 29, 2017
Can the Democrats Still Count on a Demographic Advantage? Ruy Teixeira co-authored an influential political theory in 2002 predicting liberal dominance for a generation. What does he say now?
By Alex Carp
Why the Alt-Center Is a Problem, Too Centrist liberals who grossly misrepresent the views of their left-wing critics are sowing unnecessary divisions in the anti-Trump movement.
By Eric Levitz
The Socialist Takeover of the Democratic Party Is Proceeding Nicely Centrist Democrats used to distance themselves from the left ahead of their presidential runs. Now, Booker and Cuomo are doing the opposite.
By Eric Levitz
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