Can a Group of Scrappy Young Activists Build Real Progressive Power in Trump Country?

Through a mix of “inclusive populism” and nonstop organizing, Lancaster Stands Up is betting it can reclaim its corner of Pennsylvania.

Jimmy Tobias

Stacey Abrams Always Knew They’d Try to Cheat

But here’s her plan to win anyway.

Joan Walsh

The Reverend Elijah P. Lovejoy, Editor of the ‘Alton Observer,’ Dies at the Hands of a Pro-Slavery Mob, Alton, Illinois (1837)

Melissa Range

Hubert Humphrey and the Unmaking of Cold War Liberalism

A new biography captures how the Minnesota senator and vice president was poised to be liberalism’s conscience but instead played a role in its downfall.

Michael Kazin

Ben Rhodes and the Crisis of Liberal Foreign Policy

Obama and his speechwriter and national-security adviser set out to break from the foreign-policy establishment; instead, they found themselves absorbed by it.

David Klion

Noname’s Verbal Acrobatics

Being able to hold many meanings at once—political and personal—is at the heart of her latest album.

Samantha Schuyler