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Unions are employers too. And the people who work at the headquarters of SEIU, America’s most politically active…

NEW YORK—In April of 2016, I went to a huge Bernie Sanders speech in Washington Square park, which spilled out into…

Like thirsty desert travelers converging on a shimmering oasis, Democratic presidential candidates flocked to the Iow…

URBANDALE, Iowa—Really, what Joe Biden looks like is a game show host. The tan, the blindingly white dentures, the…

Joe Biden was in New Orleans Tuesday. Just for a little while. He was scheduled to drop by the Youth Empowerment…

PHILADEPHIA—This afternoon at Netroots Nation, the annual conference of the professional activist left, two of…

“Two half-time adjunct jobs do not make a full-time income. Far from it,” Ximena Barrientos says. “I’m lucky that I…

Last week, the New York Times ran a story based on a cache of more than 2,000 gruesome photos taken inside a…

SOMEWHERE IN IOWA—Here is what happened, right before everything began to go to hell:

BURLINGTON, IOWA—There’s a very nice visitor’s center on the river here. Right by downtown. They’ll tell you…

It can feel like the 2016 campaign season was decades ago, in a different world. In fact, it has only been a few…

New Orleans is home to more than 1,300 homeless people. Everybody has a story.

PHILADELPHIA—They certainly picked a place that made the symbolism easy.

HUNTINGTON, WV—If you had walked into the airport hangar at 4 p.m. sharp on Friday, just as the opening notes of…

AMARILLO, TEXAS—The Democratic candidate for Congress in the most Republican congressional district in America does…

WASHINGTON, DC—There was just one moment when I thought I might see a white supremacist get killed. There were two…

The Big Easy can be hard. New Orleans has more than 1,300 homeless residents. They can tell you how it is.

DALLAS, TX— On Saturday, just after the anti-gun protest, I joined the NRA. Thirty bucks. It entitled me to a…

Four hours west of Albuquerque, over the mud brown desert hills, past the impossibly expansive golden plains strewn…

Outside a squat, one-story building on Chicago Avenue on the south side of Minneapolis, Alexis Collins, a…