Inequality Is Only Getting Worse Inequality Is Only Getting Worse
The typical American family today has less wealth than the typical American family of the 1980s.
Dec 29, 2016 / Michelle Chen
Why Trump’s Hotels Will Doom Us All Why Trump’s Hotels Will Doom Us All
Who’d have thought it’d be a bad idea to elect a president with business interests pretty much everywhere in the world?
Dec 22, 2016 / Tom Engelhardt
Want a More Progressive Democratic Party? Stop Donating to It. Want a More Progressive Democratic Party? Stop Donating to It.
Who among us can say in a few sentences what the Democratic Party stands for? We can fix that.
Dec 2, 2016 / Lawrence Hess
Putin Didn’t Undermine the Election—We Did Putin Didn’t Undermine the Election—We Did
Our election system is embarrassing not for anything Putin allegedly did. Leaders of both parties, if they had any concern for the republic, would move expeditiously to reform our ...
Nov 29, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
What Time Is It? Here’s What the 2016 Election Tells Us About Obama, Trump, and What Comes Next What Time Is It? Here’s What the 2016 Election Tells Us About Obama, Trump, and What Comes Next
Political scientist Stephen Skowronek talks about how his theory of the cycles of presidential history explains the campaign’s shocking results.
Nov 22, 2016 / Richard Kreitner
Taking It to the States Taking It to the States
State and local government is where the next generation of progressive voices will emerge.
Nov 22, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Did Race or Class Doom Hillary Clinton? Did Race or Class Doom Hillary Clinton?
It was both.
Nov 16, 2016 / Joan Walsh
The Perfect Metaphor for Election 2016 The Perfect Metaphor for Election 2016
What have we done?
Nov 15, 2016 / Tom Tomorrow
What I Got Wrong About Hillary Clinton—and What Other Feminists Get Wrong About Her Now What I Got Wrong About Hillary Clinton—and What Other Feminists Get Wrong About Her Now
It’s simply untrue that Clinton didn’t put forward populist policies to help working women, even if it is true that she couldn’t escape her elite branding.
Nov 14, 2016 / Joan Walsh
Election Night Election Night
So what couldn’t happen (we’d learned from the polls) Had happened before 12 o’clock. There’s much to discuss about what all this means. But later. Right now I’m in shock.
Nov 10, 2016 / Column / Calvin Trillin