How the group found itself at sea over a protest against Mamdani and an endorsement of Raman

Why James O’Connor’s book makes sense today

My sordid adventures with PayPal and Synchrony

A review of Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick’s new book, Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power

Why Democratic Socialists Dodged a Bullet in Wisconsin

It's already a big issue in this year's Senate races. It could loom still larger in 2028

They hinge on their bridging the divide in political geography

How DSA Emulates the old pre-World War I Socialist Parties

Political language is different from scientific language

Republicans still hold major advantages in American politics — this year and beyond.

Socialism, DSA, and the Recent Elections

A footnote from a recent reporting trip to Ohio

There were two revealing moments during Donald Trump’s speech to the nation...

In 1973, I was part of the leadership of the New American Movement, a socialist group that would later merge with Michael Harrington’s Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee to form the Democratic ...

Like the civil rights movement, the successes of the women’s movement have bent the moral arc of the universe. That, however, is not the question here. Our focus is on what feminism’s effect has been ...

A friend asked me this morning what I thought of Donald Trump's new tariff strategy.

When I was making final revisions for Compact on an article entitled "The Emerging Democratic Minority," my editor suggested I added a comment on Ezra Klein's interview with polling analyst David Shor...

When I was making final revisions for Compact on an article entitled "The Emerging Democratic Minority," my editor suggested I added a comment on Ezra Klein's interview with polling analyst David Shor...

Tim Walz wasn't so liberal after all

Was the 2024 election a political freak of nature—the result of an aging president unwilling to acknowledge his disability until it was too late?

The White House as Glass House

1300 probationary workers at the Center for Disease Control are being let go by the Trump administration, threatening public health and science.

Part two on young people and the new culture wars.

Since the 2008 election, Democrats have been counting on young voters as an essential part of what they called a "new American majority." But the 2024 election may have spelled the end of the youth vo...

What is to be done to repair the party’s national identity?