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.

Exit polls suggest a large majority of voters want to slow global warming. So why was this election so tight?

While Trump made a sport of being rude and gleefully cruel, the true obscenity of his presidency was that so much of it remained business as usual.

Can the current ideological split among Native members of Congress—and electoral hopefuls—lead to anything like a unified front on issues impacting Indian Country?

Long voting lines in New York aren’t a symptom of the pandemic. They’re the result of years of broken politics and party patronage.

Why a new liberal-left coalition could be the key to unlocking America’s rural conservative vote.

A grassroots coalition is fighting like hell to build power for the left. Securing a Democratic win this presidential election is a necessary detour on that path.

Can the retail and service workers who have kept the country running during the pandemic remake our politics?

In the Trump era, long-time GOP operatives are pretending to be tortured moderates. Why do journalists keep falling for it?

If Democrats don’t shred her pretexts for overturning the Affordable Care Act, they will live to regret it.

Despite eye-popping hauls from small-dollar donors in 2020, they’re showing no signs of disavowing big-money super PACs if they sweep the November election.