The fall from power is never short, and it’s rarely graceful.

Visions of blue waves and leftist insurgencies are roiling the Democratic Party. As a result, we are all subject to fretting by members of the Democratic establishment. They are lying to themselves. And if you fear what’s happening, so are you.

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…

On Tuesday, voters cast their ballots on a number of pressing issues and some extremely-good-to-absolutely-evil candidates. But there was one particular issue on the ballot that could help shape the future of the Democratic party, the age old question: Is Weezer good?

On Tuesday night, former Michigan State Representative Rashida Tlaib made history. Tlaib won the Democratic primary election in Michigan’s 13th Congressional District. She will run unopposed in the general election, and is thus set to become the first Muslim woman—and the first Palestinian-American woman—to ever be…

The Democratic Party prides itself on being inclusive and advocating for communities of color, but there was a time when racism was at the center of its policies.

It’s hard to overstate the significance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s upset primary win over 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley in New York’s 14th Congressional district. She is a working-class Latina who was bartending less than a year ago. She is an unapologetic socialist who called for abolishing ICE back in February.…

Holy shit.

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.

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…

I’m not sure there’s a better possible illustration of “not up to the challenges of the political moment” than Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer standing outside a Washington filling station demanding that President Trump lower gas prices.

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.

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…

One more sign pointing to the potential for a blue wave in November’s midterm elections: the surge in people making small-dollar donations to House Democratic candidates. According to a Tuesday analysis by The New York Times, the percentage of money Democrats are raising from small donations—defined as less than…

Hillary Clinton is still making money off her failed 2016 presidential campaign by charging the Democratic National Committee to use her valuable email list—a move that’s rankling state and local party officials, who say Clinton should donate the list and return the DNC’s money.

Horror stories about the American healthcare system surface almost every day. Perhaps the most dystopian illustration of this is the fact that GoFundMe pages to help people with medical bills have become depressingly ritualistic. So it’s not that surprising that in the upcoming 2018 midterms, healthcare is the bread…

This piece is part of Splinter’s series The New Guard, where we interview progressive candidates who are running in 2018 midterm races across the country to shake up the Democratic Party establishment.

As a number of Democrats win high-profile special election victories in deep red districts, fewer and fewer safe Republican strongholds seem to be off limits. But, according to Politico, one big problem that the Republican Party is facing is entirely of its own making—incumbents who are sleeping through what looks to…

Although big policy ideas are often derided as impractical or impossible by the professional political class, they can actually be quite popular among voters. One such idea that’s gained traction over the last few years is for the federal government to guarantee a job for anyone who wants to work.

Republicans in the House of Representatives hit a snag in trying to pass an obscenely regressive food stamps bill, thanks to opposition by Democrats.