Tag: Elections

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

Robin D. G. Kelley on the midterm elections.

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 economic despair in 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.

Trump is only the latest to exploit it. A new path forward must address the structures that sustain it.

The party’s fifty-year strategy has reached an electoral dead end.

Without pressure from social movements, they won’t produce meaningful and deeply needed reform.

Manipulations of public sentiment not only harm their intended target; they can set back decades of progressive politics.