Joe Biden says that our institutions are under assault, but saving them will require more than Trump’s removal.

He’s an immediate threat to America, and yet Democratic leaders are showing little urgency.

Centrist senators like Joe Manchin and Jon Tester will decide the fate of the party’s more ambitious legislative goals.

Can the largest media platform in the world ever be made safe for democracy?

The Georgia runoff shows that climate activists are more practical and strategic than Democrats give them credit for.

Workplace democracy would have lessened the damage from this year’s economic crisis—and could buffer the next one.

Why we can’t afford to make peace with white supremacists

A weeklong phony outrage cycle offers a glimpse of a very annoying future.

A grim report about Dianne Feinstein’s cognitive decline underlines a larger problem with the leadership of the party.

The country is in desperate need of a massive economic recovery program. The incoming administration shouldn’t hold back.

It may turn out that Donald Trump was the one force keeping the Democratic Party together.

The former president seems unable to reckon with the failures of his presidency and diagnose the Republican Party’s incurable nihilism.

His inclusive approach to governing will give fossil fuel companies far too much power over his climate agenda.

There’s scant evidence that controversial policy positions doomed down-ballot candidates on Election Day. But the party’s organizational defects are well documented.

Biden underperformed Clinton among Black voters within the city, and many of his white supporters in the suburbs voted for Republicans down ballot.

Climate activists are worried—and mobilizing to steer the president-elect in a more ambitious direction.

The Democratic Party can’t be mired in intraparty fights about what’s “too far left.” Life as we know it is at stake.

Establishment politicians are claiming that progressives cost the party seats. But reverting to the status quo could cost it much more in 2022.

They’re more likely to take the wrong lessons from Biden’s win and the down-ballot losses.

Resistance groups spent months planning for this week, but it devolved into infighting about how to answer Trump’s attempt to steal the election.