Politics

A successful progressive campaign needs to have the right message and agenda and the right relationship between a candidate with vision and credibility and longer-term progressive infrastructure.

Here’s how voters’ decisions could affect schools.

Instead of the Democratic establishment worrying that Sanders is unelectable, maybe it should worry that a so-called “moderate” Democrat might be nominated instead.

Will their audacity and excesses usher in a second progressive era?

In his recurrent search for cooperation, Biden seems eager for his Republican foes to like him. It’s a ridiculous and dangerous quest.

"Nothing about your presence in the Senate tomorrow can be considered essential."

Remember, Founders weren’t politicians either but property owners like me, who built big things, got rich trading and doing real estate development. Some owned entire city blocks today worth billions, or ran factories or profited from huge cotton or tobacco plantations.

What establishment Democrats are really worried about, of course, is their own power in the party, which is threatened by a surging left wing.

Deep budget cuts to the NOAA and other climate science agencies could threaten public safety and academic programs.

Unfortunately, the Republican Party and the conservative movement have not yet confronted the profound problems that Trump did not cause but merely symbolizes.