Significant change to our political economy will require significant change to our structure of government. It is hard to see how to get there without some kind of “populist” moment, fraught with danger to other values we believe to be essential.
Business conservatives have demonized every piece of progressive legislation as “creeping socialism” since the 1930s. Now that a democratic socialist has called their bluff, they’re at a loss.
Bernie Sanders’s plan for higher education would go a long way toward improving graduation rates, raising incomes, and lowering unemployment among millennials—African Americans and Latinos most of all.
While Hillary Clinton’s and Bernie Sander’s positions and voting records on abortion may be similar, Clinton has engaged more proactively with the issue, even if not always perfectly.
No matter who becomes the Democrats’ nominee, Bernie Sanders’s campaign marks a sea change within the Democratic Party.
South Carolina, and the South in general, has served as a bellwether for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination since 1992.
Radicals of many stripes—Steinem among them—have long understood issues of class and gender as intertwined.
Why does the white-haired firebrand from Vermont insist on identifying himself with socialism, a political faith that has never been popular in the United States?
The cultural-political influence of unions is rising even as membership declines.
The Democratic elite’s dismissal of the Sanders campaign ultimately reflects a contempt for democratic ideals.
Paul Krugman misunderstands the Sanders campaign’s theory of change. It isn’t that a high-minded leader can draw out our best selves and translate those into more humane lawmaking. It is that a campaign for a more equal democracy can build power, in networks of activists and across constituencies.
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.
Bernie Sanders’ surge in recent national polls has brought inevitable comparisons to an insurgent candidate whose enthusiastic young supporters took Hillary Clinton by surprise eight years ago. But Sanders’s campaign is of a very different kind than Obama’s, with deeper potential and a different measure of success.
Bernie Sanders’s climate plan offers a welcome alternative to the vagueness of the Paris Agreement. But to win over a broader public, a leftist climate agenda will require a vision of a “just transition” that goes beyond our energy system.
If Bernie Sanders is going to win the hearts and minds of the American public, he will need to emphasize socialism’s moral—and, moreover, religious—foundations.
