The Abortion Debate Isn’t As Partisan As Politicians Make It Seem
Welcome to Secret Identity, our regular column on identity and its role in politics and policy. The debate over Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee to replace Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme...
View ArticleWhat The Rise Of Kamala Harris Tells Us About The Democratic Party
Welcome to Secret Identity, our regular column on identity and its role in politics and policy. In the days after Hillary Clinton’s defeat, the two people who seemed like the Democratic Party’s most...
View ArticleWe Researched Hundreds Of Races. Here’s Who Democrats Are Nominating.
This story was produced in collaboration with ABC News and Ballotpedia.28 Research by Ballotpedia and Roey Hadar, Lee Harris, Adam Kelsey, Adia Robinson, Meena Venkataramanan and John Verhovek of ABC...
View ArticleWe Looked At Hundreds Of Endorsements. Here’s Who Democrats Are Listening To.
Research by Ballotpedia and Roey Hadar, Lee Harris, Adam Kelsey, Adia Robinson, Meena Venkataramanan and Johnny Verhovek of ABC News. This story was produced in collaboration with ABC News and...
View ArticleHouse Progressives Are Set To Wield A Lot Of Power In 2019
The liberal wing of the Democratic caucus in the U.S. House is going to be bigger than ever when the new Congress starts in January. It’ll be much larger than the conservative wing, and that has major...
View ArticleThe Young Left’s Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
A few months ago a friend wrote me an email with the subject line, “What is Sean McElwee.” This is the kind of question that occurs to a person who spends a lot of time on Twitter. In 2018, McElwee’s...
View ArticleWhat Happens When Dozens Of Wave-Year Freshmen Join The House?
It might be hard to tell at the moment, but there are freshmen Democrats in the House other than New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. While Ocasio-Cortez and other progressive women have become the...
View ArticlePolitics Podcast: The Politics Of Taxing The Super Rich
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View ArticleIs Socialism Still An Effective Political Bogeyman?
If President Trump’s most recent State of the Union address is any indication, socialism could be at the forefront of his 2020 campaign rhetoric. In his Feb. 5 speech, Trump said that “we are alarmed...
View ArticleThe Green New Deal Is Impractical, But ‘Practical’ Solutions Haven’t Worked...
This morning when I took a shower, the water was warmed by natural gas that had been carried through a network of pipes that crisscross the country, run through my town and come up into my house. I...
View ArticleIs The ‘Green New Deal’ Smart Politics For Democrats?
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. sarahf (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): In early February, Democrats Sen. Ed Markey and Rep....
View ArticleThe Six Wings Of The Democratic Party
There’s a lot of news right now about conflicts within the Democratic Party, and similar stories will likely continue to pop up for the next two years. Much of this is normal and unsurprising. The...
View ArticleAre Americans More Divided On #MeToo Issues?
In the fall of 2017, the publishing of sexual harassment and assault allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein fueled the rise of the #MeToo movement, inspiring women across industries to...
View ArticleDemocrats Are Stifling Their Liberal Wing’s Biggest Ideas
It has been more than a week since the full4 report from special counsel Robert Mueller became public, including details of numerous actions by President Trump that could constitute obstruction of...
View ArticleWhy Democrats’ Most Liberal Wing Is Struggling To Gain Power
I argued in a piece published earlier this week that the “Super Progressive” bloc of the Democratic Party was largely losing its fights with the party’s Progressive Old Guard wing. Big ideas pushed by...
View ArticleWhat Republicans And Democrats Are Doing In The States Where They Have Total...
The recent passage of a law in Alabama that essentially bans all abortions in the state resulted in a barrage of coverage of other abortion restrictions being adopted in conservative areas this year....
View ArticleHow Weird Is Andrew Yang’s Tech Policy? Only About As Weird As America’s.
Presidential hopeful Andrew Yang is famous for his plan to implement a universal basic income to help Americans who lose their jobs to robots. And that isn’t the only place tech innovation takes center...
View ArticleCan The Supreme Court Stay Above The Partisan Fray?
Faced with a solid majority of conservative justices on the Supreme Court for the first time in decades, a number of Democratic presidential candidates have said they’re open to increasing the number...
View ArticleThe Christian Right Is Helping Drive Liberals Away From Religion
A few weeks ago, the Democratic National Committee formally acknowledged what has been evident for quite some time: Nonreligious voters are a critical part of the party’s base. In a one-page resolution...
View ArticleRepublican Control In The States Hasn’t Stopped The Growth Of Government
Five states will hold elections this November for governor or state legislature — and a lot seems to be on the line. In the Louisiana gubernatorial race, a Republican victory would mean total GOP...
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