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We need to do a lot of anti-racist, deep canvassing in this country. Because if we keep losing white shares and just allowing Facebook to radicalize more and more elements of white voters and the white electorate, there’s no amount of people of color and young people that you can turn out to offset…
We can’t afford four more years of Donald Trump.
Teen and 20-something activists like Thunberg and Prakash have led some of the most relevant and incisive climate protests in modern history. Their willingness to back Biden and lend their expertise in helping his campaign address the increasingly dire heat of climate change head-on speaks volumes a…
The people’s voice has been blatantly disregarded, and the late justice’s dying wish was ignored.
Guthrie came prepared, calling out President Trump repeatedly on his inaccurate statements and holding his feet to the fire on questions he typically avoids.
In what appears to be a huge prank on the universe, we are on the brink of an extremely important presidential election in the middle of an unprecedented pandemic. Cool cool cool.
The Bidens brought in around $11.1 million In 2017, nearly doubled their combined earnings between 1998 and 2016, with the jump deriving mostly from a book deal and speaking engagements.
Those exchanges demonstrated that Wallace isn’t afraid of Trump.
From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters…
Our work continues, the fight goes on, and big dreams never die.
Don’t tell me this isn’t about sexism. I’ve been around too long for that.
This year, the possibility of a brokered convention seems less like political fan fiction and more likely a plausible reality.
California is the biggest prize of the evening, with 415 delegates up for grabs.
Bernie Sanders’ Democratic rivals prepared to unleash a new wave of attacks against the party’s presidential front-runner in a high-stakes debate Tuesday night, perhaps their final prime-time opportunity to change the direction of the 2020 nomination fight.
To Harriot, Buttigieg’s reference to this truism was “lying.” The nut of the issue is that there are other reasons inner-city kids fail to graduate or go to college, such as funding disparities, unequal curriculum resources, and violence. All of those things are real. Unreal, however, is Harriot’s l…
Even on hot-button issues like race, Biden was proud of his ability to foster compromise and centrism. It’s a legacy that hasn’t aged as well in a Democratic Party which is more apt to burn its one-time idols than study their historiography.
Earlier this year, I wrote that Biden’s campaign made me sick with fear for the future because at a time when radical change is needed, he doesn’t represent a meaningful possibility for that to happen. I still believe this, but his debate performance made me wonder how he can make it through the 202…
Gillibrand’s most natural path might be to start with Party Loyalists and build out a coalition from there. But her calls for Sen. Al Franken to resign — issued after several women accused him of groping them — reportedly triggered a backlash among some donor-class Democrats, who [warning, editorial…