February 24, 2021How can we hold a president accountable?
November 18, 2020Without a practical plan for revising the Constitution, Democrats will be condemned to play by rigged rules.
August 17, 2020America needs at least two healthy political parties, and right now, with Republicans attacking the legitimacy of the Democrats, we are in danger of having none.
July 6, 2020Trump sets himself up as a defender of American history and culture against a “new far-left fascism” trying to destroy America.
- March 24, 2017The framers envisioned a strong middle class to ground our republic. If it disappears, does our democracy go with it?
April 27, 2015President Obama and aspiring Democratic candidates need to “take a note” from FDR and set a progressive-populist political agenda for the upcoming campaigns.
October 8, 2014Both right and left too often ignore, if not deny, that Americans are radicals at heart.
September 13, 2014The left has always favored Thomas Jefferson over Alexander Hamilton -- but not only was Hamilton more progressive for his time, he has lessons for our response to climate change.
July 4, 2014Historian Jill Lepore says that the debates of 240 years ago offer no insight into those of today.
August 2, 2012Michael Winship recalls a tense moment with the iconoclastic writer who died on Tuesday.
