Political movements don’t get very far if they depend on appealing to the moral scruples of the powerful

Whether Biden can win the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination will largely depend on how many voters don’t know much about his actual record

The effects of mobilized demands for change in the Democratic presidential nominating process have been major — not out of the goodness of any power broker’s heart, but because progressives have organized effectively during the last two years

The only real hope for the 2020 Bernie Sanders campaign is that a grassroots uprising will become powerful enough to overcome the massive obstacles

With a launch of the Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign on the near horizon, efforts to block his trajectory to the Democratic presidential nomination are intensifying

While on the surface aimed at one individual, such an assault is actually an ideological war against the vision of government aligned with social justice

Should the candidates that mass media and party elites put forward as “progressive” be quickly embraced or carefully scrutinized? The question must be asked and answered

Progressives are apt to be enthusiastic about O’Rourke — if they don’t know much about his record

The only way to overcome such corporatism is for social movements to fight more resolutely and effectively for progressive change, including in the Democratic Party

No matter how intense the top-down pressure gets from Speaker Pelosi, we should insist from the bottom up that members of Congress stand their ground for progressive principles