Bernie Sanders

Democratic socialists attending the 2020 Democratic Convention won’t be out of place in a city with a long history of socialist governance.

The reparations struggle is about remembering that America was built on slavery, but also about fighting for all working people.

For much of the 20th century, Milwaukee was run by socialists — and Time magazine called it “one of the best-run cities in the U.S.”

Getting out from under the "liberal international order."

For the first time, we are living in a truly post-cold-war political environment in the United States.

The sick history of the U.S. campaign song.

The promise and perils of left populism.

A curiously inflexible brand of race-first neoliberalism has taken root in American political discourse.

How do socialist demands become liberal common sense? The history of the New Deal offers a useful lesson.

A look at the Clinton blunders that continue to damage his party today.

Democrats don’t think America lives up to liberal democratic ideals. Republicans don’t think Americans need to.

It’s not the 1990s anymore. People want the government to help solve big problems. Here’s how the Democrats must respond.

Sometimes you have to break the rules to create a more democratic system.

Clinton's memoir addresses the gendered discourse and larger feminist contexts of the 2016 presidential campaign.

The show's rollicking one-liners and bawdy routines paved the way for cutting-edge television satire.

How "liberal democracy" emerged from the wreckage of World War II and became the dominant ideology of our times.

On Barbara Lee and the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.

With Amazon on the rise and a business tycoon in the White House, can a new generation of Democrats return the party to its trust-busting roots?

A new book argues that the Constitution’s framers believed that vast concentrations of wealth were the enemy of democracy.

The roots of the student debt crisis are neither economic nor financial in origin, but rather social.