Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum cruised to a completely unexpected primary victory Tuesday night to become the Democratic nominee for Florida governor. If he wins the general in November, Gillum will become the first black governor of the state. Gillum will go up against Trump-supported Ron DeSantis, who won the…

BuzzFeed’s Ruby Cramer published a thoughtful piece today on the relationship between Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, two progressive stalwarts who are both eyeing a possible presidential run in 2020.

Reuters published a feature today on the growing influence of progressives in the Democratic Party, accompanied by a round of extensive polling on three of the most visible planks of the wing’s platform: abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, free college tuition, and Medicare for All. It turns out that…

American healthcare is a sick joke from almost any angle: how it neglects people with disabilities, and how the people who need it most are least likely to have it. It is morally unforgivable, but it’s also bewildering that anyone thinks this works: America spends 17.9 percent of its GDP on healthcare, or $10,348 per…

“Trump Derangement Syndrome” is a fake disorder made up by conservatives to document a real phenomenon: liberals who are so mad online about the president as to appear deeply unwell.

The rapid emergence of Medicare for All as a mainstream proposal in the Democratic Party has been accompanied by that age-old question which is literally only asked of government programs designed to help poor and working class people: how are we going to pay for it?

While a bacchanal for the most boring among us was getting under way in Central Park, an even less comprehensible gathering was taking place in Battleground, U.S.A (aka Columbus, OH) in the form of “Opportunity 2020,” a convention hosted by Third Way, the think tank that positions itself as a “center-left” alternative…

PITTSBURGH—There is nothing radical about room 301 of the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. It’s the kind of B-grade utility room usually reserved for capitalism’s dullest rituals: trade show breakout meetings, employee trainings, and low-budget corporate banquets. But last Saturday night, it was filled with 100 of…

On Sunday, CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Sen. Bernie Sanders a simple and reasonable question: Does he favor abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency? Here’s what Sanders said:

Abolishing ICE is quickly becoming a popular position in the Democratic Party. New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon called for ICE to be abolished last week, and a number of congressional candidates including Deb Haaland, who won her primary in New Mexico earlier this month, have done the same. This week,…

The Democratic Party, scared shitless by the idea of another drawn-out primary process in 2020 (read: a genuine left wing challenge to an establishment pick), is moving its summer convention up by two weeks, making it the earliest convention in more than 20 years.

Last year, we were inundated with stories about Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut and his push to be a voice for a “progressive” foreign policy. Here’s how Murphy explained his post-Iraq, liberal vision to the Atlantic last year (emphasis mine):

A new report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition confirms something that anyone who lives in a city and is not a millionaire should know intuitively—there is no affordable housing.

There are those—Splinter’s own Hamilton Nolan among them—who would say that Barack Obama has been decidedly lax in his post-presidential life. Here we are, a nation in crisis, and the former president has been largely absent from the public eye, save for a few (refreshingly coherent) tweets and cherrypicked media…

There are many things Bernie Sanders might like to talk about—Medicare for all, millionaires and billionaires screwing over poor people, his basketball prowess—but do NOT ask him to endorse his own son’s campaign for Congress. If you do, things will get really strange, really fast.

We’re now almost halfway through the 2018 primary schedule, and the big take coming out of Tuesday’s eight primaries was that the Democratic establishment is ascendant, with centrist candidates rolling over those backed by Bernie Sanders and other groups on the left. Here’s Third Way’s Jim Kessler, who gloated at the…

In 2010, enraged grassroots conservatives launched an insurgency against the Republican establishment. The Tea Party movement ran a series of primary challengers accusing Republicans of being insufficiently oppositional to President Obama.

This week, Israeli troops shot and killed dozens of Palestinians protesting along the border fence separating southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, the deadliest violence in the region since the war there in 2014.

One of the biggest problems Americans face is the increasing control that employers have over their jobs and their lives. Much of this can be attributed to the decades-long decline in union membership, driven in part by conservatives passing so-called “Right to Work” laws across the country. On Wednesday, Bernie…

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, the most popular politician in America who is also my dad, will announce a plan for the government to guarantee a $15-an-hour job and healthcare to every American “who wants or needs one,” the Washington Post reported on Monday.