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June 17, 2019
We've Got People
The modern progressive movement is rising in influence, intensity and numbers. Just where did it come from and where is it going? Ryan Grim, D.C burea…
May 14, 2019
The Men and the Moment
The endlessly fascinating 1968 presidential race transformed American politics in ways that are still being felt. Aram Goudsouzian explores the charac…
May 6, 2019
Digital Civil War
Democratic political adviser Peter Daou has long toggled between the world of presidential campaigns and online activism. He worked for the presidenti…
May 2, 2019
Clear and Present Safety
We are fed a steady stream of doom and gloom—terrorist attacks, erosion of democracy, robots taking our jobs. But Michael A. Cohen and his co-author M…
March 13, 2019
The Billionaire Boondoggle
Politicians love to woo entertainment corporations to their states and cities through subsidies and tax cities. But Pat Garofalo argues that such ince…
February 8, 2019
Camelot’s End
Yahoo! News Senior Political Correspondent Jon Ward delves into to the oft-forgotten yet starkly dramatic 1980 Democratic presidential primary between…
January 14, 2019
Fat Cat
How did a Wall Street executive and “foreclosure king” like Steve Mnuchin become the Treasury Secretary for a populist like Donald Trump, and what is …
December 26, 2018
How We Win
“One-off” protests don’t change the world; sustained direct action campaigns do. That’s one of the many insights from George Lakey in his new book, Ho…
December 10, 2018
The Moralist
Whether you love him or hate him, it is indisputable that few, if any, other 20th-century American presidents were as historically consequential as Wo…
October 25, 2018
An Uncivil War
With many Americas fearing that democracy itself is in trouble, the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent explores remedies to reserve the democratic decline…
October 17, 2018
TR's Last War
Teddy Roosevelt had one of the most colorful lives in the American history, but few have deeply explored his final years. Historian David Pietrusza do…
October 16, 2018
The Red and The Blue
How did American politics become so polarized? MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki points to clash of two larger-than-life characters in the 1990s, Bill Clinton an…
October 11, 2018
They Said No to Nixon
Is it possible for a president’s political appointees to rein in a president with a penchant for abusing power? Yes. Michael Koncewicz, who listened t…
August 21, 2018
Obama
Brian Abrams interviewed more than 100 people – Democrats, Republicans, cabinet officials, White House aides, campaign operatives, congresspeople and …
August 15, 2018
The Constitution Demands It
Is there a case for the impeachment of Donald Trump? Constitutional attorney Ron Fein says not only is there a case, but also that the case exists reg…
August 8, 2018
Give People Money
How can we end the scourge of poverty? How we can sustain ourselves once robots eliminate the need for many jobs? Annie Lowrey offers an answer in the…
July 13, 2018
The Marginalized Majority
The Marginalized Majority: Claiming Our Power in a Post-Truth America (Melville House, 2018) offers a roadmap to reeling progressives, delivers a sear…
June 22, 2018
American Maelstrom
In American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division (Oxford University Press, 2016), Michael A. Cohen shows how the 1968 American pr…
June 18, 2018
Soul of a Democrat
Democrats need to stop their “monomania” over Donald Trump and reconnect with their party’s core ideals to reclaim political power, argues Thomas B. R…
June 5, 2018
Alt-America
Investigative journalist and Northwest correspondent for the Southern Poverty Law Center, David Neiwert has been covering the radical right-wing for d…
May 30, 2018
It’s Time to Fight Dirty
Roosevelt University political science professor David Faris counsels Democrats to disregard procedural precedents and niceties, and pugnaciously wiel…
May 24, 2018
Civic Hope
To find out what Americans really think about their government, University of Texas-Austin Professor Roderick P. Hart read and analyzed approximately …
May 18, 2018
The Great Revolt
During the 2016, journalist Salena Zito, who is based in Western Pennsylvania, sensed a brewing conservative populist in the white working-class when …
May 16, 2018
Gaslighting America
CNN commentator Amanda Carpenter was an early conservative critic of Donald Trump when she was targeted in a smear campaign falsely accusing her of an…