Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders offer the most direct challenge yet to the front-runner in the 2020 Democratic primary.
Election 2020
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Why 2020 Is Starting to Feel Like 2004
Sixteen years ago, leading Democrats shied away from doing the right thing. Today, they’re perilously close to making the same mistake.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
California Democratic Party Convention: Live Updates
Fourteen Democratic presidential candidates will be speaking in San Francisco this weekend before 5,000 delegates and activists at the California Democratic Party convention, the largest state political party in America. The convention has a history as a turning point in the Democratic race, from Howard Dean’s 2003 “Democratic wing of the Democratic Party” speech, to […]
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How to Replace the Trump Tax Cuts Is the Story of 2020
Democrats need to be specific about repealing the Trump tax cuts.
Posted inWorking in America
A Conversation with Sherrod Brown
The senator from Ohio on the Green New Deal, trade, and how to beat Trump in 2020
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Reparations, Really?
Some of the 2020 Democratic candidates don’t have their priorities straight.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Democrats Battle Over How to Raise the Minimum Wage
The overwhelming majority of House Democrats support a $15 federal minimum wage. But a centrist bill to institute regional minimum wages is standing in the way.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
How Think Progress Would Have Attacked Franklin Roosevelt
The Center for American Progress is hardly the first institution to label liberals and leftists of some means as inauthentic or hypocritical for their own attacks on concentrated wealth.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Forcing Corporations to Pay At Least Some Tax
Warren’s creative breakthrough against corporate scofflaws
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Trump’s Huddled Masses and the Politics of 2020
The politics of immigration just got a little harder for liberals.
