The Popular Populist

Bernie Sanders is the most-liked politician in the United States. What does that mean for the future of left politics here?

What Bernie Supporters Want

The Sanders campaign has been driven by class politics, not white male angst.

What Happened in New York

Four points on last week’s New York Democratic primary.

Against Fortress Liberalism

For forty years, liberals have accepted defeat and called it “incremental progress.” Bernie Sanders offers a different way forward.

Who Can Beat Trump?

The numbers don’t lie: Bernie Sanders would be a formidable general election candidate.

A Bernie Upset?

Can Bernie Sanders win the delegate battle? It won’t be easy  —  but here’s one way it could happen.

Building a Social-Democratic Majority

Why Bernie Can Win

The pundits are wrong. Bernie Sanders is the most electable candidate this November.

The Clinton Spin

Make no mistake: even a narrow Bernie Sanders victory in today’s New Hampshire primary would be an enormous upset.

The War on Bernie Sanders

The Democratic Party elite has launched a virtually unprecedented attack against Bernie Sanders.

Bernie and the Liberals

Whatever the claims of the media, Bernie Sanders’s appeal does not seem limited to liberals.

The Bernie Coalition

In Iowa and New Hampshire, Barack Obama won over high-income liberals. Bernie Sanders’s campaign points in a different direction.

Bernie in the Age of Clinton

Seven tidbits from Bernie Sanders’s memoir, Outsider in the White House.

A Second Civil War

Like the abolitionists, Chris Hayes argues, climate activists must mount “a movement of dispossession.”

A Confederacy of Kidnappers

12 Years a Slave rightly grounds slavery in economic exploitation, but reflects our era’s painful uncertainty about how that exploitation can be opposed.

Dead White Reds

For today’s beleaguered left, it’s tempting to pine over the past. But the lives of two socialist intellectuals remind us that no one should be too nostalgic for the twentieth century.