Democratic Party

A new House majority will be nearly 1/2 women, 1/3 people of color, and include more Muslim Americans, Native Americans, and LGBTQ members

Bernie Sanders

Democrats Need to Go Bold on Wages, Ed, or Why would their Big Win Matter?

Sam Pizzigati

The party’s leaders have been far too cautious in the past. Newer ideas could spark real change in who owns and runs America.

Democratic Party

The Top 11 Things the Dems Absolutely must Do in the House

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – More progressive Democrats in the House must be prepared to fight like hell against the Pelosi-Schumer establishment, which will try to make them quiescent and go along with corporate priorities. What 2016 showed is that that platform is a formula for humiliating defeat and irrelevance. Democrats have to stand for […]

Elizabeth Warren

Dear Elizabeth Warren: Run for President, Challenge the Blob and End the Wars

Andrew J. Bacevich

Boston (Tomdispatch.com) | – Senator Elizabeth Warren 317 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. Dear Senator Warren: As a constituent, I have noted with interest your suggestion that you will “take a hard look” at running for president in 2020, even as you campaign for reelection to the Senate next month. Forgive me for saying […]

Democratic Party

What Happens in Vegas may Swing the Senate Blue

Rebecca Gordon

San Francisco (Tomdispatch.com) – It’s what campaigners say every November, I know, but this year’s election really is as important as it gets. Will U.S. voters choose to halt the progress of Donald J. Trump’s slow-motion coup? Or will the tide just continue rolling over us? So much depends on what happens in Nevada — […]

Democratic Party

Taylor Swift to GOP & Kanye: I’ma Let you Finish but First I’m Registering 65K New Dem Voters

Chris Lefkow

Washington (AFP) – The bad blood between Taylor Swift and Kanye West goes way back. At the 2009 MTV Music Video Awards, he famously interrupted an acceptance speech by the then 19-year-old Swift for Best Female Video to say that Beyonce deserved the honor. “Taylor, I’m really happy for you, I’mma let you finish, but […]

Democratic Party

How the Corporate Media Treated Julia Salazar differently from Trump and Netanyahu

Juan Cole

Julia Salazar, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, has won the Democratic primary for state senator from Brooklyn and neighboring areas in New York, defeating a long-serving incumbent she claimed was in the back pocket of the realtors. Coverage of her campaign, however, read like a salacious tabloid, and had a weird set […]

Barack Obama

Obama shifts Left, Embraces Medicare for All, in Hopes of Galvanizing Democrats

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Barack Obama came out of retirement Friday to give a stump speech at the University of Illinois, in hopes of whipping up the enthusiasm of Democrats to vote in November. As I pointed out yesterday, Dems have an uphill battle to take either House of Congress, because of Republican gerrymandering, […]

Democratic Party

Protests won’t stop Trump derailing Mueller Inquiry; Putting the Left in Congress Will

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The broad hints Trump gave Monday that the search of his personal attorney’s offices on a tip from Robert Mueller might lead him to fire deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has galvanized the American left, which is pledging massive public rallies in response. Public protests and […]