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 Bernie Sanders as its public leader. And maybe it does need Bernie as its...
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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.
I thought this Yglesias piece on the differences between Sanders and Clinton voters was pretty good. Basically they more or less believe the same things, with strikingly few meaningful differences..
I have a long piece in the Boston Review on the complicated relationship between organized labor and the Democratic Party. The basic thesis is that unions have no real choice other than working within the Democratic Party even when the Democratic Party does not pay...
In the aftermath of the Kansas special election, there was a lot of the typical Democratic infighting, with the left angry that Democrats didn't do more in a district that.
Given the skepticism many LGM commenters consistently express over protest, you may be warmed to note the huge increase in involvement within local Democratic Party politics. All across the country,.
When I hear the mayor of Baltimore coming out against a $15 minimum wage, I hear "please primary me because I listen more to greedy employers than the city's working classes. We know from experience after experience that there is little to no evidence that...
I don't agree with everything in here and you probably won't either, but this is a good summary of the incredible challenges Democrats face, with Obama's disastrous strategy on building.
People largely responded positively to my call to do something, anything, but something to fight Trump. Right now, there's a lot of people who want to do nothing but relitigate.
This piece is pretty pessimistic about downballot Democrats and its hard to disagree. “The...
I know Joan Walsh is a big Hillary Clinton supporter and thus many of you will disqualify her remarks based upon that. But I think she is right--Bernie Sanders' strategy.
Interesting long essay at Jacobin by Paul Heideman about how the left tried to remake the Democratic Party in the 1960s and 1970s and why it failed. While I can.