Politics

Biden Needs To Run On Something—It Should Be Mass Debt Relief

Millions of Americans are drowning in debt. Ahead of the upcoming election, Democrats can do what’s both right and popular by promising to cancel it.

Scott Remer

The Majority of Polling Places are Inaccessible. A Disabled Voter Bill of Rights Could Change That.

We are seeing a concerted effort to push disabled voters like me out of the democratic process across the South—and we have to fight back.

Dom Kelly

How the Government Can Help Build Industrial Unions

Money. For organizing. Give it to us.

Hamilton Nolan

It Shouldn’t Be a Big Deal That Biden Joined Striking Workers on the Picket Line—But It Is

“The most union-friendly president in U.S. history” may be a low bar, but Biden took another step toward clearing it by standing with Michigan autoworkers out on strike.

Jeff Schuhrke

It’s Time to Reclaim the Promise of Economic Rights in the U.S.

The fight for social democratic policies can help inspire a progressive resurgence in America. A new book provides a roadmap.

Max B. Sawicky

On Chicago's Northwest Side, Socialists Are Wielding Power in a Whole New Way

For city council members Rossana Rodríguez Sanchez and Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, "co-governance" is key.

Jacqui Germain

If Democrats Want to Win Elections, They Should Bring Back the Covid Welfare State

By many measures, Bidenomics is working great—but most Americans are still down on the economy. That’s in large part because the U.S. government let its temporarily generous social safety net unravel.

Nick French

We Can Solve Homelessness (If We Want To)

Our economic priorities have created a serious housing crisis and fueled homelessness. Solving the problem simply requires us to change our priorities from profits to people.

Sonali Kolhatkar

If Banks Can Be Bailed Out, Student Debt Can Be Canceled

Biden must act now to make student debt relief a reality—no matter what the Supreme Court says.

Braxton Brewington

U.S. Elected Socialists Just Held Their Largest Gathering in Nearly 40 Years

A recent conference brought together democratic socialist elected officials from across the United States—including Bernie Sanders—to collaborate and strategize on advancing progressive public policy.

David Duhalde

How Chicago Broke the Neoliberal Fever

The Windy City has long been a laboratory for free market fundamentalism. But the election of Mayor Brandon Johnson and a landmark number of left-wing City Council members indicates the emergence of a new Chicago school.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Robert Reich: Trump Won't Get a Civil War Over His Indictment

Donald Trump is as dangerous as ever, and is inciting violence. But the country is not going to war with itself over his own narcissistic cravings.

Robert Reich

Biden Is Turning Out to Be More Like Obama Than FDR

After passing stimulus programs and promising a Roosevelt-like administration, President Biden and national Democrats are back to embracing austerity. We deserve better.

Scott Remer

Republicans Are Now Trying to Defund the Libraries

Claiming to protect children, Republicans are going after libraries and librarians instead of the police, gun manufacturers, and actual child sexual abusers.

Sonali Kolhatkar

Praxis Makes Perfect

How to stop treating politics like a spectator sport.

Dayton Martindale

Rolling Back a Century of Progress, Republicans Are Reviving Child Labor

It might seem unimaginable that we're backsliding into the era of exploiting child labor. But that’s precisely what the GOP appears to be doing.

Sonali Kolhatkar

Bernie and Brandon Endorse Biden. What's the Takeaway?

This shows what two hardnosed progressives believe they need from a national governing coalition.

Max Elbaum

Helen Gym Lost, But Philly’s Progressive Movement Isn’t Going Anywhere

Gym may not have emerged victorious in the mayoral primary, but the labor-left coalition that powered her campaign has emerged as a formidable political force.

Mindy Isser