Bernie Sanders

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.

The roots of inequality run a lot deeper than is often acknowledged.

What America’s last major party crack-up in the 1850s tells us about the 2010s.

Historian Judith Stein debunks liberal myths about racism, the New Deal, and why the Democrats moved right.

The crazy history of nominating Conventions.

As organized labor lost strength, the Democratic Party turned to professional-class voters to shore up its base.