The Trump administration has intensified its assault on protections for immigrants and asylum seekers, but you wouldn’t know it from watching Thursday’s debate.
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Why Ady Barkan Thinks Warren’s Health Care Plan Is the Best in the 2020 Field
The Medicare for All activist, a Warren endorser, discussed the plan before Thursday’s presidential debate.
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A Smaller Democratic Field Actually Manages to Debate
Biden doesn’t blither; Warren defends wealth tax; what Klobuchar sees when she looks at Buttigieg.
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America’s Next President: Warren Sanders
The ‘team’ we need to make America decent again
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The Emerging Democratic Support for Teachers Unions
A presidential forum in Pittsburgh last week cemented a unified endorsement of public education—at least in public.
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Will Bloomberg Pledge to Support the Eventual Democratic Nominee?
Today on TAP: The question the media should be asking Mike Bloomberg
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Pabulum From Mayor Pete
Buttigieg used his dry wit to connect at The Washington Post, but his cluelessness on racism seems remarkably intact.
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Corbyn, Sanders, and Warren: the Bogus Comparison
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.