Tag: Elections

A conversation with Maurice Mitchell, National Director of the Working Families Party, on the way forward after the Democrats’ loss.

Unions turned out for Harris, but Democrats can no longer expect them to deliver working-class voters.

To mobilize the abandoned working class, we need to revive the idea of solidarity.

The tragic reascent of Trump is not an anomaly to democracy but its fatal flaw.

A conversation with Wendy Brown on the U.S. presidential election, the exclusions liberal democracy is built on, and why we must aim at more than restoring its mythical former splendor.

Their long embrace of “responsible conservatives” has always been dangerous.

Why did the blue city agree to host the Republican National Convention—and to suspend a hard-won police reform for its duration?

An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley.

They may seem the cornerstone of democracy, but in reality they do little to promote it. There's a far better way to empower ordinary citizens: democracy by lottery.

The recent electoral success of a party with Nazi origins must be understood as part of the long history of white Swedes’ desire for racial homogeneity.

David Hogg and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discuss replacement theory, the gunman’s manifesto, and how we organize against violent white supremacy.

Center-left parties should learn that small-bore solutions are a waste of time.

Support for pro-Trump Republicans remains driven by relatively well-off whites in fast-growing, rapidly diversifying suburbs—not by rural America.

If Trump was the end of the “party of ideas,” the rise of Reagan was its start.

Joe Biden positioned himself as the “return to normalcy” candidate. But normalcy is not something we can afford—we must actively resist it.

Unless we bolster its foundations, our enfeebled democracy won’t be able to solve any of the daunting problems Biden has singled out as priorities.

Basic norms exist for political parties; Republicans don’t meet them.

Part two of a conversation on voter turnout, vote counting, and what we can expect now. 

Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation is a sham, but it is one the Constitution allows. There’s only one way out of this crisis: we must amend.