If the working class is to become part of the Democratic Party coalition again, the frayed middle layers connecting elites and voters must be rebuilt.

We have to fight for the good of everyone in this country, quelling their well-founded fears and showing the way out of unfounded ones.

… His replacement? Potentially the first woman and first Asian American president in U.S. … to illegally overturn his last election, and who, in the months leading up to this one, … against his fellow Americans.  Yet for all its strangeness, the election itself was …

"For now, I am holding it together by redoubling my commitment to living in a way that cuts against Trump's cynicism, fear mongering, and braggadocio."

The Democratic Party has to find a way not to be the party of bicoastal elites.

What matters more than anything is that Americans disappoint the GOP, which always hopes for a low turnout, and show up to the polls in record numbers.

Is Kamala Harris poised to dial down Biden's more populist initiatives?

At their national convention in Chicago, Democrats adopted the more explicitly “patriotic” posture of an earlier era.

Should Democrats define themselves through an appeal to "freedom"?

The housing crisis means that today very few people believe the American dream is still within reach.

Immigration and climate change are inextricably linked, and will only become more entangled every year.

It's about time faithful Catholics in America embrace their political homelessness.

A certain kind of obstinate weirdness is a first step to autocracy.

J. D. Vance's 'Hillbilly Elegy,' reconsidered.