The lesson is not that Democrats need to be centrists—but that they’d better get serious about trade, or right-wing populists like Trump will keep eating their lunch.
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Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren Team Up With House Progressives to Challenge Nancy Pelosi on Drug Bill
The Progressive Caucus is threatening to vote down a drug pricing bill important to Nancy Pelosi. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have backed them up.
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How Bloomberg and Sanders Could Decide the Democratic Race
Neither will win the nomination, but by accumulating delegates one of them may determine who does.
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Trump’s Strange Absence From Democratic Campaign Messages
Democrats are failing to connect Trump to their larger critique of the status quo political economy.
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Bernie Voted for Obamacare. That Didn’t Make Him a Sellout.
Today on TAP: Medicare for All may arrive in stages, and that’s OK
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It’s Old and White, but New Hampshire Is Not Republican
And while Democratic hopefuls have swarmed the state, three-quarters of Democratic voters don’t know whom they’ll support.
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The Billionaire Class Created Their Own Wealth Tax. It Failed.
The folly of voluntary charity as a substitute for government tax and transfer policies is most evident in the story of the Giving Pledge.
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The Great Fairness Versus Disruption Debate
Elizabeth Warren’s and Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All funding plans reveal strategic differences among progressives.
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Elizabeth, Bernie, Joe, and Pete
Pete Buttigieg is coming on strong, as the Wall Street Democrat heir to a faltering Joe Biden. Can he overtake Warren and Sanders in Iowa?
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Thanks to Sanders, Conditioning Aid to Israel Is Entering the National Conversation
Speaking at the J Street conference, the senator from Vermont electrified the ‘pro-Israel’ crowd with his brand of tough love.