Newsom has drawn widespread praise for waging an aggressive war of words against President Trump. But few people outside of California know much about the governor’s actual record.
New Jersey’s special House primary is too close to call, but the results still sent a message about what forces are rising and falling in the Democratic Party.
How did the Mason–Dixon Line—meant to resolve a long-standing colonial border dispute—come to represent the US’s foundational divide between slavery and freedom?
Be excited about Zohran, but sober about our movement's shallow roots. The big question now is whether we will be able to lean on that hope to rebuild a powerful working-class movement in workplaces and neighborhoods across our city and nation.
The progressive party is now active in 18 states and much of its expansion happened in the past five years. The party believes 2026 will be a wave year for the left nationwide, so it will be aggressively recruiting candidates for state legislatures
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Her’s surprisingly strong challenge came after jumping into the race in August. A campaign spokesman said they knocked on 40,000 doors in their sprint to win nearly that many votes needed for victory.
The demand for Medicare for All went from the center of the discourse to political exile in record time. But the policy's popularity never faded. A new poll finds strong majority support for the neglected idea among Americans across the political spe
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