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The Blue Wave Is Coming to the States As Well
What Lula’s Struggles in Brazil Tell Us About Progressive Politics
Trump Is Running Out of Foreign Policy Wins—and Options
From Jesse Jackson to Trans Rights: How Democrats Triangulate
Why We Should Abandon the Term “Working Class”
What Kind of Liberalism is The Democratic Party Pushing?
The Danger of the Democratic Party’s Obsession With the Center
How Purple-State Democrats Should Talk About Trans Issues
Is Trumpism About To Take Over Germany?
How Higher Ed Can Fight the Anti-DEI Movement
How Progressives Can Revive the Police Reform Movement
How the 2020 Minneapolis Protests Set Up the City To Fight ICE
Why The Professors’ Union Got Behind El-Sayed
Why AOC’s “Woke” Comments Landed With a Thud
Will Progressives Get Another Win in Wisconsin This Week?
What the Michigan Senate Race Tells Us About the Democratic Party
Why Progressive Candidates Are Thriving in the Midwest
How AOC’s Foreign Policy Vision Is Different Than Biden’s
Will the Progressive Wave Knock Off Florida’s Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Is Sanders-AOC-Mamdani Left Stronger Than the Tea Party Was?
All Politics Is Gender Politics
Trump Has Failed Where Many Authoritarians Succeed in One Critical Way
What Should Replace What Trump Is Destroying?
The Good News Story in American Journalism
Fighting Trump and the Oligarchs’ Assault on Higher Education
Why This Year Could Be a Democratic Wave Election
The Winning Issue—If Only Democrats Will Grab It
How Democrats Defeat Trump’s Identity Politics | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Trump Is Desperately Grasping for an Exit Strategy in Iran
Democratic Voters Don’t Want Vanilla Centrism
Why So Many of Trump’s Authoritarian Moves Have Failed
Trump Invaded Iran Because Fascists Are Imperialists Too
US Strikes Iran: What This Means For the World | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Why Crockett v. Talarico Has Come Down to the Wire in Texas | Right Now With Perry Bacon
How Georgia’s Senators Are Shaping The Democratic Party | Right Now With Perry Bacon
What Democrats Can Learn from the Struggles of Britain's Labor Party | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Today's Democrats Should Learn From Jesse Jackson | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Mamdani Is Showing His Pragmatic Side as Mayor | Right Now With Perry Bacon
These Democrats Are Best Positioned to Win the 2028 Nomination | Right Now With Perry Bacon
The Religious Left Is a Leader in the ICE Resistance | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Why Anti-Trump Resistance Is Succeeding | Right Now With Perry Bacon
ICE: Past and Present
Trump Is Destroying Higher Ed. Here’s How Democrats Can Rebuild It | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Why Trump Is Losing Ground Even in This Deep-Red State | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Trump Is Running a “Global Mafia” | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Elizabeth Warren’s Bold Plan for Democrats to Win in 2026—and 2028 | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Trump’s Authoritarianism Is Getting Worse | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Trump Plays Imperialist While Americans Need Help at Home | Right Now With Perry Bacon
The US Deposed Maduro. Now What? | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Collective Action: The Way Out of Authoritarianism | Right Now With Perry Bacon
What a Real DNC “Autopsy” of the 2024 Election Would Say | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Affordability Isn’t a “Silver Bullet” for Democrats | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Media Isn't Broken By Accident | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Why Trump May Never Be Popular Again | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Some Indiana Republicans Are Balking at Trump’s Gerrymandering Scheme | Right Now With Perry Bacon
The State Where Trump Voters Have Serious Buyer’s Remorse | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Trump’s Hold on the GOP Has Never Been Weaker | Right Now With Perry Bacon
It’s Sanders v. Schumer in Several Key Dem Primaries | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Anti-Blackness Is at the Heart of Trump’s Toxic Politics | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Trump’s Anti-Affordability Agenda Has a New Target: College | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Anti-Corruption Politics Are The Way to Crush Trumpism | Right Now With Perry Bacon
The Young Voters and Minorities Who Backed Trump in 2024 Hate Him Now | Right Now With Perry Bacon
The Dems Blinked, and That Will Make Trump Ever More Radical | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Ro Khanna Says Schumer Must Resign In Wake of Budget Deal | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Mamdani’s Win and What Comes Next | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Dems Dominated In Virginia and New Jersey Because of Trump Hatred | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Mamdani Is Winning Because Democrats Hate Their Party’s Leaders | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Senator Tina Smith: Democrats Need to Propose Big Ideas Like Mamdani’s | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Republicans May Lose Badly In Next Week’s Elections—Thanks to Trump | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Elite Colleges Grow a Spine and Reject Trump’s Authoritarian “Compact” | Right Now With Perry Bacon
No Kings: How Mass Protests Weaken Unhinged Autocrats Like Trump | Right Now With Perry Bacon
How Chicago Is Standing Tough Against Trump’s Outrageous ICE Policies | Right Now With Perry Bacon
The Most Interesting Senate Race in the Country | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Dems Must Embrace Magnetism and Drop Polling-ism | With Anat Shenker-Osorio
Newsom and Pritzker Are Showing How to Attack an Authoritarian Crook | With Arkadi Gerney
Democrats Got Something Really Big Done in New Mexico | With Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham
Race and Racism in Trump 2.0 | With Victor Ray and Hakeem Jefferson
The Democrat's Shutdown Strategy | With Rep. Melanie Stansbury
The Comey Indictment Echoes Watergate—But It’s Actually Worse
Kimmel Showed the Rest of the Media How to Fight Trump | With Journalist E.J. Dionne
Trump Is Running “the Most Corrupt Administration” in U.S. History | With Rep. Greg Casar
Is America in a New Kind of Civil War? | With Deva Woodly
Kimmel’s Suspension Is Another Shameless Media Capitulation To Trump
How Cities Defend Themselves From Trump’s Onslaught | With Justin Bibb
This Week in the News | With Ana Marie Cox and Meredith Shiner
Dems Must Use Funding Fight to Stop Trump’s Lawbreaking | With Rep. Jamie Raskin
Harris Is Bashing Biden in Her New Book. It’s About Time.
The Political Trends of 2025 | With Amanda Litman, co-founder of Run for Something, and Data Analyst G. Elliott Morris.
Trump Press Sec Seethes as Epstein Spin Falls Apart in Briefing Fiasco
Trump’s Corrupt Firing of Lisa Cook Backfires as Brutal New Poll Hits
Raging Trump Suddenly Facing Worsening Legal Losses on Many Key Fronts
“Politics Is Just Vibes Now”: Unpacking NYC Politics, Jobs, and RFK Jr. | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Fox News Accidentally Makes RFK Fiasco at Hearing Even Worse for Trump
How Trump Is Screwing Michigan—and What Democrats Can Do About It | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Epstein Survivor Nukes Trump in Emotional Speech as WH Quietly Panics
Trump’s Angry, Crazed Rants to Media Unnerve Legal Experts: “Very Bad”
Trump Threat to Occupy Cities Takes Ominous Turn in Vile Fox News Hit
Trump Is Totally Ignoring the Working Class That Voted For Him | Right Now With Perry Bacon
Trump Press Sec’s Dimwitted Spin Implodes as RFK Firing Fiasco Worsens
Democratic Backsliding with Dartmouth’s Brendan Nyhan