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

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?