How to Move Biden Left How to Move Biden Left
Biden’s climate policy is an invitation to movements to keep pushing the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
Jul 27, 2020 / John Nichols
Progressives Have a VP Short list: Barbara Lee, Nina Turner, Karen Bass Progressives Have a VP Short list: Barbara Lee, Nina Turner, Karen Bass
California’s large Bernie Sanders delegation is asking Joe Biden to consider three progressive women.
Jul 21, 2020 / John Nichols
The Covid Crisis Reveals the Need to Abolish Abortion Restrictions The Covid Crisis Reveals the Need to Abolish Abortion Restrictions
What kind of nation allows people to be prosecuted for health care?
Jul 15, 2020 / Renee Bracey Sherman
The Left Needs to Reclaim Free Speech The Left Needs to Reclaim Free Speech
Just because some who complain about censorship are hypocrites, privileged elitists, or defensive bigots, that doesn’t mean we should abandon the ideal of robust debate.
Jul 10, 2020 / Jeet Heer
Charles Booker Could Have Won Charles Booker Could Have Won
If progressive organizations keep waiting for candidates to catch fire before they hop on board, we’re doomed to keep losing winnable races.
Jul 8, 2020 / Karthik Ganapathy
51 Years After Stonewall, New York’s Queer Liberation March Faces Police Violence 51 Years After Stonewall, New York’s Queer Liberation March Faces Police Violence
This is a moment of reckoning that is knitting together seemingly disparate social movements.
Jul 3, 2020 / Jay W. Walker
The White Left Needs to Embrace Black Leadership The White Left Needs to Embrace Black Leadership
The current uprisings are what class struggle in the 21st century looks like.
Jul 2, 2020 / Barbara Ransby
How Progressive Victories Blow Up the Conventional Wisdom How Progressive Victories Blow Up the Conventional Wisdom
Establishment candidates deaf to the demand for change are courting defeat.
Jun 30, 2020 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Doing the Dirty Work Doing the Dirty Work
Bill Barr unleashed the National Guard on peaceful protesters in Washington D.C.
Jun 29, 2020 / OppArt / Colleen Quinn
Black Lives Matter Protests Are Everywhere, Even in the Unlikeliest Places Black Lives Matter Protests Are Everywhere, Even in the Unlikeliest Places
While massive crowds and police crackdowns rocked major cities, countless other demonstrations occurred in small cities and towns—even in conservative areas with no history of prot...
Jun 25, 2020 / Zoë Carpenter