If I could design the American health-care system from scratch, it would combine universal, government-provided insurance with the ability to purchase private, supplemental insurance. In other words,
I’ve known Sean McCaffity since he was in high school—and probably since I was in high school, but I’m not entirely sure. We both debated in high school and college, although Sean was mo
Mike Konczal and Nell Abernathy have a call to arms, urging the Democratic Party to embrace economic freedom as a core strategy. They identify three freedoms, as opposed to FDR’s 4. There is Fre
Doyle McManus turns on the latest version of DEMS IN DISARRAY! with a vengeance. Democrats may be locked in a struggle for the soul of their party, but that’s been true in almost every election cycl
Eric Levitz has a really great essay pushing back against the idea that the Democratic Party making inroads with upper-middle class voters is going to make it harder to push a progressive agenda. He b
There’s a leftist component to Murc’s Law–that in American political discourse, only Democrats have agency, for those uninitiated to the maxim. We see that a lot on the labor left, w
I don’t want to be unfair to Damon Linker’s argument here, where he notes the tepidness of the DNC’s “Fair Deal” proposal and says that what the party really needs is Ber
As the Democrats move forward to articulate a set of policies for the Trump era, Chuck Schumer’s initial op-ed demonstrates both how far to the left the Democratic Party has moved and how far it