The Democrats After Bernie
The young activists who campaigned for Bernie Sanders are clearly the Democrats’ future. Do they have the power and the smarts to remake the Democratic Party?
Spring 2025
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Feminism at the Polls
The Democratic primary revealed the fault lines of both establishment feminism and the socialist left. It also suggested an appetite for the kind of feminism we need—one that understands the impact of economic and foreign policy on the majority of women’s lives.
The Next Majority
No matter who becomes the Democrats’ nominee, Bernie Sanders’s campaign marks a sea change within the Democratic Party.
How Labor Advocates Pushed the Democratic Party Left
The cultural-political influence of unions is rising even as membership declines.
Against the Political Grown-Up
The Democratic elite’s dismissal of the Sanders campaign ultimately reflects a contempt for democratic ideals.
Belabored Podcast #95: Campaigning for Families with Ellen Bravo
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have both announced plans to give workers paid family leave. Ellen Bravo of Family Values @ Work joins us to explain how this policy became central to both candidates’ campaigns.
8 Thoughts on Bernie Sanders’s Democratic Socialism and the Primary
What was missing from Bernie Sanders’s democratic socialism speech and policy agenda is just as interesting as what was included.
Why Leftists Should Also Be Democrats
Political parties are essential to a healthy democracy. And right now, for Americans on the left, the Democrats are the only party we have.
With a counter-argument from David Marcus.
Why We Argue
A left that doesn’t relish arguing with itself is a left that’s not prepared to change the world.
Liberal Punishment
Naomi Murakawa’s remarkable book The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America shows how, since the 1940s, liberals have provided legitimacy for the prison state.
Sherrod Brown for 2016!
At the risk of seeming ridiculous, I think Sherrod Brown should run for president. I know that, barring a debilitating health problem or a horrible scandal, Hillary Clinton is likely to capture the Democratic nomination. I realize too that Brown, …
Not an Option
The current state of American two-party politics is profoundly depressing—and shameful. In Congress, the Republicans rail against any program that helps workers and the poor, block any chance for undocumented women and men to become citizens, oppose every attempt to …
Presidential ADD
Why has Barack Obama—one of the most eloquent and thoughtful of recent presidents—become such a terrible politician? Midway through his sixth year in office, his ineptitude is pretty clear. He frustrated and demobilized the huge base he built during his …
Why Democrats Need Bernie Sanders to Run for President
Bernie Sanders may actually run for president. The feisty Senator from Vermont is giving dinner speeches in Iowa, telling journalists he’s “prepared” to campaign, and is deciding whether he wants to compete for the Democratic nomination or take the “radical” …
