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Billionaire Tom Steyer Spends More Than $7 Million on Ads in First Month
The former hedge fund manager has made his name known across early primary states with millions in ad buys.
A Wave of Trump-Fueled Republican Retirements Puts Texas in Play
By contrast, only three Democratic House members have signaled their intention to vacate the premises.
Elections Are Treated as Political Consumerism and Democracy Is Suffering
Performance and spectacle are being marketed as politics.
We Need Independently Run Presidential Debates
CNN took an approach to the debates more befitting a football game than an exercise in democracy.
How Biden’s Secret 2002 Meetings Led to War in Iraq
It was Biden's inference in his Senate presentation that brought Iraq's WMD threat into mainstream discourse.
Is the DNC Using Arbitrary Criteria to Exclude Mike Gravel From Debates?
Gravel has been excluded while other candidates who failed to reach donor thresholds will debate next week.
Voters Don’t Want Democrats to Be Moderates. Pelosi Should Take the Hint.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should be attacking Trump, not AOC.
Sanders’s Speech Presents a Conundrum for New Left’s Socialist Strategy
Bernie Sanders is offering adjustments to capitalism, not transformation into a worker-controlled democratic society.
Primary Challengers Looking to Repeat AOC Magic Face Uphill Battle in 2020
After a midterm cycle featuring a number of high-profile upsets, more House Democrats are facing primary challenges.
History Proves We Can’t Count on the Democratic Party for a Green New Deal
The 1966 failed struggle for the Freedom Budget offers lessons in the fight for a Green New Deal.