Harold Meyerson

It is Saturday morning, Jan. 18, and in Washington and San Francisco, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have gathered to protest the president’s pending war. In Des Moines, Iowa, hundreds of Democrats are turning out, too — both to oppose that war, it seems, and begin the process of unseating that president. Almost a year […]

Gore is gone, and the race for the Democratic nomination in 2004 is so wide open, says one Democratic pollster, “The plausibility of why-not-me? candidacies has just exploded.” This isn’t 1992, when Mario Cuomo’s decision not to run failed to prompt any prominent national Democrats who’d been holding back to hop into the race. Running […]

So who you gonna believe, Bob Woodward or Ron Suskind? In Bush at War, Woodward’s new behind-the-scenes account of the White House in wartime, mighty battles are waged between the Powellites and the Cheneyistas over the fundamentals of foreign policy. Multilateralists duke it out with unilateralists, leaving the president to choose between, or meld, two […]

We have been here before. In the wake of yet another of their periodic election debacles, the Democrats are deflated and dispirited, bothered and bewildered. Bewildered, I think, more than anything else. After all, this is not 1980, the year of the Reagan ascendancy. The American electorate is not clamoring for less government. Indeed, the […]

I. I Can Help McBride! “When I go door-to-door, and they open it up, they don’t really listen to me,” says Patrick Vilar, a fresh-faced young Democrat who is seeking election to the Florida House of Representatives this November in a district that, the conventional wisdom says, is Cuban, Republican and, for a Democrat, a […]

With the midterm elections now less than a month away, the Democrats have been split into two camps on the issue of war and peace. The most dramatic split, surely, is the one between the House of Gephardt and the House of Gore. The rift is more glaring because, at least at first glance, each […]

I. Labor Day in the Park with George If you closed your eyes at this year’s New York City Labor Day rally, you might have thought you’d been transported to some Hibernian rite at the turn of the last century, back when organized labor spoke with a brogue. The city’s locals had assembled in Battery […]