Elections

Tom Tomorrow cartoon

This Campaign Is So Confusing This Campaign Is So Confusing

Notes from the road to the White House.

Jun 1, 2016 / Tom Tomorrow

Jerry Brown endorses Hillary Clinton

Jerry Brown Delivers a Serious, Savvy, and Important Endorsement of Hillary Clinton Jerry Brown Delivers a Serious, Savvy, and Important Endorsement of Hillary Clinton

California’s governor, who has a history of wrangling with the Clintons and the Democratic establishment, makes a case for anti-Trump unity.

May 31, 2016 / John Nichols

Trump Rolling Thunder Rally

Here Is a List of People Donald Trump Insulted Last Week Here Is a List of People Donald Trump Insulted Last Week

Mitt Romney, Susana Martinez, ABC’s Tom Llamas, CNN’s Jim Acosta, vets, his own supporters—and more!

May 31, 2016 / Joan Walsh

A New Campaign to Hold Wall Street Accountable Emerges

A New Campaign to Hold Wall Street Accountable Emerges A New Campaign to Hold Wall Street Accountable Emerges

Take on Wall Street sets the stage for the next wave of financial reform.  

May 31, 2016 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Congress Democrats

Democratic Leadership Is Missing in Action on Mass Incarceration Democratic Leadership Is Missing in Action on Mass Incarceration

Sentencing reform will be a compromise between moderate and conservative Republicans, unless Democrats finally come to the table.

May 31, 2016 / Inimai M. Chettiar and Ames Grawert

Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Reince Priebus

Tell Democratic and Republican Leaders to Get On Board With Ending Mass Incarceration Tell Democratic and Republican Leaders to Get On Board With Ending Mass Incarceration

Past party platforms have not only failed to call for reform—they’ve championed tougher punishments.

May 31, 2016 / NationAction

Sanders Oregon Rally

Sanders Has Always Wanted to Debate Trump—or Any Other Representative of the ‘Billionaire Class’ Sanders Has Always Wanted to Debate Trump—or Any Other Representative of the ‘Billionaire Class’

The notion of a one-on-one debate with a Republican presidential contender has long intrigued the Democratic presidential contender.

May 27, 2016 / John Nichols

Hillary Clinton

Why Hillary Clinton Benefits From a Genuine Convention Debate Why Hillary Clinton Benefits From a Genuine Convention Debate

Facing a barrage of well-meaning advice from Democrats panicked about Trump, Clinton needs a shift back to issues.

May 26, 2016 / Joan Walsh

Jimmy Carter

Thanks, Jimmy Carter, for Stating What Should Be Obvious: Trump’s Campaign Is Racist Thanks, Jimmy Carter, for Stating What Should Be Obvious: Trump’s Campaign Is Racist

The former president has long modeled how white leaders can and should disavow white supremacy.

May 26, 2016 / Imara Jones

Presidential Trump

Making Trump ‘Presidential’ Making Trump ‘Presidential’

The leap from common man to dignified leader of the free world is part of the national myth. But Donald Trump requires a real-life fairy tale we haven’t seen before.

May 26, 2016 / Leslie Savan

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