Politics

The Republican Party's Puzzling Obsession with Socialism

With a pandemic ravaging the country, a historically unpopular president and no platform to run on, the GOP has set its sights on attacking socialism. It doesn’t seem to be working.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

15 Years After Hurricane Katrina, Another Perfect Storm Is Upon Us

When Katrina hit, the mainstream media and Congress both reacted shamefully. Their response to the pandemic is no different.

Joel Bleifuss

Mijente Stayed Out of the 2016 Election. Here’s Why It’s Going All In This Time.

Hispanic voters will comprise 13% of the electorate this year—the largest nonwhite demographic group of eligible voters. Mijente’s “Fuera Trump” campaign aims to mobilize them for the November election.

Ray Levy-Uyeda

Want Progressive U.S. Politics? Continue to Reform the Democratic Party Rules

There would be far more elected officials like Jamaal Bowman and AOC, if New York complied with the new Party reforms.

Larry Cohen

Biden Promises a Return to the Obama Era. That’s Bad News for Palestinians.

A campaign built on nostalgia is no comfort for those who are not at all nostalgic for the Obama administration.

Alex Kane

Robert Reich: How Mitch McConnell’s Republicans Are Destroying America

While a lethal pandemic and economic crisis wreak havoc on working families, McConnell and the GOP are dead set on protecting business interests and enriching the wealthy.

Robert Reich

The Democratic Platform Fight Shows It’s Still Obama’s Party

Bernie Sanders supporters have pushed for progressive priorities in the platform, but the Barack Obama wing of the Democratic establishment is still in the driver’s seat.

Branko Marcetic

The Search for a Covid Vaccine Is Not an Arms Race

Treating vaccine research like a national security secret endangers us all.

Sarah Lazare

Police Budgets Are Ballooning as Social Programs Crumble

Cities across the country have defied demands from protesters to defund police despite facing huge budget deficits from Covid-19.

Indigo Olivier

Beware the Anti-Defamation League’s Efforts to Partner with Progressive Orgs

The Anti-Defamation League has a long history of smearing Black activists, working with police, and evoking “hate speech” to demonize the peaceful BDS movement.

Sarah Lazare and Adam Johnson

The Forgotten History of the Jewish, Anti-Zionist Left

A conversation with scholar Benjamin Balthaser about Jewish, working-class anti-Zionism in the 1930s and '40s.

Sarah Lazare

Barr’s New Task Force Is a Blatant Attempt to Target Racial Justice Protesters

By embracing preventive policing, the task force aims to eliminate the threat of dissent.

Chip Gibbons

What’s Missing From the Biden-Bernie Task Force Plan? Medicare for All.

The recommendations are an improvement on Biden's previous healthcare plans, but a public option won't cut it. We need free, universal coverage.

Natalie Shure

The People Who Will Draft the Democratic Platform Have a Conflict of Interest Problem

Next up after the Biden-Sanders task forces? The Democratic platform drafting committee—and progressives have their work cut out for them.

Branko Marcetic

The Problem With Israel’s Annexation Is Its Brutality, Not Its Optics

We need strong condemnation of Israel's annexation plans, not handwringing over bad P.R.

Sandra Tamari

The Church of Latter-Day Socialists

These Mormons are taking the church back to its socialist roots.

Nicholas Greyson Ward

First You Bomb and Starve a Country. Then You’re Praised for Sending in Aid.

The perverse diplomatic charade of Saudi Arabia starting a fire then getting credit for providing fire blankets.

Sarah Lazare

The Left’s Resurgence Is For Real

Jamaal Bowman and other progressive and democratic socialist challengers had a very good night, while Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cruised to victory—proving that the left wing is a force to be reckoned with.

Miles Kampf-Lassin