Politics

ELIZABETH WARREN, PLEASE ENDORSE BERNIE SANDERS NOW

Time is short. We need you now.

Mindy Isser

How Bernie’s Strategy of Building Relationships with Young People and Latinos Paid Off in California

Inside the campaign's California organizing strategy.

Nuala Bishari

The Democratic Establishment Is Trying to Crush Bernie Sanders, But It Hasn’t Stopped Him

While the Democratic Party’s corporate wing helped Biden gain on Super Tuesday, Sanders’ left-wing vision is still popular—and can still win.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Working Families Party: Sanders Needs Warren in the Race

Warren supporters argue her presence helps win more voters to a progressive agenda.

Ryan Grim and Rachel M. Cohen

When I Asked Elizabeth Warren to Speak Out Against the Yemen War, She Refused

In 2015, I asked Sen. Warren to oppose the war in Yemen. Here's what she said.

Shireen Al-Adeimi

Under Bloomberg, the NYPD Massively Expanded Its Racist Gang Database

Stop-and-frisk has received more attention, but Bloomberg’s role in broadening New York’s discriminatory gang database should raise serious concern about what his presidency would look like.

Josmar Trujillo

Elizabeth Warren, Please Drop Out for the Sake of a Better World

Warren has no path to the Democratic nomination, but by dropping out and endorsing Bernie Sanders she can still help make her egalitarian vision a reality.

Hamilton Nolan

There Have Been 21 Debate Questions About Paying For Social Programs, Zero About Paying For War

Democratic debate moderators are sending the message that we can afford policies that spread militarism—but not those that protect human life.

Sarah Lazare

Bloomberg’s Choice to Speak at AIPAC Shows How Out of Touch He Is

The billionaire has defended Islamophobia and Israel's wars. He'll fit right in at the AIPAC conference.

Alex Kane

It’s Not Just Bernie Anymore—Centrist Dems Are Skipping AIPAC in a “Watershed Moment”

Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg have joined Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in abandoning the pro-Israel conference that critics call "a fringe, right-wing, radioactive rogue organization."

Julia Conley

Red-Baiting Won’t Stop Bernie Sanders. The Democratic Debate Shows Why.

Moderators and candidates tried to weaponize democratic socialism to attack the front-runner.

Mindy Isser

Why Democrats Need To End the Filibuster

If they actually want to get anything done, Democrats need to kill the filibuster—now.

In These Times Editors

The Media Doesn’t Know How to Process the Fact That Bernie Sanders Is Winning

Corporate media has moved from denial to anger.

Jim Naureckas

Bernie Sanders Is the Only Leading Presidential Candidate Publicly Opposing the Patriot Act

Many Democrats are still acquiescing to a George W. Bush-era policy that has been in place for nearly 20 years.

Sarah Lazare

He Sued Chevron and Won. Now He’s Under House Arrest.

Chevron is using the U.S. courts to avoid paying out $9.5 billion for environmental damage—and to silence lead lawyer Steven Donziger.

Christine MacDonald

Superdelegates Were Designed To Stop a Candidate Like Bernie

Of course the establishment candidates approve of superdelegates—these unelected electors were created precisely to protect the party elite.

Branko Marcetic

Bloomberg Unleashes Warren’s Rage—At Last

If Warren has a superpower, it is her anger—a righteous, coruscating fury that beautifully clarifies the moral stakes of a rigged economy.

Kathleen Geier

Bernie’s Strategy To Win California—And Everywhere

Sanders is taking a risk no one has before: banking on new voters

Nuala Bishari