There are no American politicians whose views on politics merit serious consideration for any reason other than the power they wield. With only minor exceptions (from long ago), it has been this way ...

How far they’ve come. And I’m not talking about the GOP, whose front-runner representing 37 percent of the Republican electorate has repudiated post-Reagan orthodoxy on trade, entitlement reform, ...

How far they’ve come. And I’m not talking about the GOP, whose front-runner representing 37 percent of the Republican electorate has repudiated post-Reagan orthodoxy on trade, entitlement reform, ...

To win back the White House in 2008 and become a majority party again, the Democratic Party must overcome trust gaps on security, values, and culture. It also must reform and reestablish itself as the ...

Ever since Howard Schultz announced on Sunday that he was considering an independent bid for president, a kind of mass hysteria has gripped the left broadly. The overwhelming reaction was one of fear: ...

It is the curse of Clintonism that it is associated with the Clintons. A centrist-oriented Democratic politics that is pragmatic and economically literate is better than the alternatives: a fluffy ...

How far they’ve come. And I’m not talking about the GOP, whose front-runner representing 37 percent of the Republican electorate has repudiated post-Reagan orthodoxy on trade, entitlement reform, ...

How far they’ve come. And I’m not talking about the GOP, whose front-runner representing 37 percent of the Republican electorate has repudiated post-Reagan orthodoxy on trade, entitlement reform, ...

Clintonism eludes easy characterization too because the Clintons, along with other right-wing Democrats, effectively purged their party of its left wing. It is therefore difficult to distinguish ...

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio (R) and his wife Chirlane McCray (L) look on as democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at a debate watch party at Steiner ...