When a leader decides they have all the answers, and want the levers of democracy to align to their vision, only bad things can happen. By Adnan R. Khan.

Matt Stoller reflects on our love for Hamilton and why liberals came to embrace one of our most dangerously reactionary founders.

With a restless Democratic base leaning left, party centrists are looking for their Justin Trudeau — a candidate who will seem progressive while preserving the status quo. By Luke Savage.

What do you get when you cross big-money politics and tepid progressive positions? A look back at the career of Nancy Pelosi, who’s now poised to retake [and has] the House Speaker post. By Branko Marcetic.

This moment matters. It will be written into Wikipedia history by us, the liberals, because we write and edit socialist encyclopedias. By Marco Kaye. (Nov. 8, 2018)

Living in Gore Vidal’s “United States of Amnesia,” Democratic stalwarts have naturally forgotten the litany of lies the intelligence community has shamelessly produced at the behest of their political betters. By Jason Hirthler.

Frustrated by political losses large and small, a progressive wing of the Democratic Party pushes a populist platform across the country. By Letitia Stein, Susan Cornwell, Joseph Tanfani.

No, “liberal” and “progressive” aren’t synonyms. They have completely different histories—and the differences matter. By Sean Wilentz.

"Like many who have been influenced by the political philosopher Leo Strauss, Kass sees the decline of custom and tradition and the march of individualism and egalitarianism across all realms of life as the logical outcomes of modern liberal democracy." By Scott Spillman.

But its best years are behind it, according to a new book.

Pundits fretting about a “tyranny of the majority” would do well to remember that democracy has always been a precondition of liberalism—not the other way around. By Sheri Berman.

How did a Ku Klux Klan sympathizer find a home in one of the twentieth century's most influential liberal salons? By Tom Arnold-Forster.

Harvey Weinstein seemed to fit right in. This is a form of liberalism that routinely blends self-righteousness with upper-class entitlement. By Thomas Frank.

Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments of Critical Thinking and Democratic Decency. ‘Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.’ By Maria Popova.

Joan Didion began covering political campaigns in 1988. By then, she had switched to being a Democrat, which did little to change her views of the world or change her life in any tangible way… By Emmet Penney. (June 26, 2017)

Bernie, like Corbyn, offered hope that another world was possible. He’s exactly the kind of candidate the Democrats must rally behind in the future. By Steven W Thrasher.

Lessons of Montana: There’s no quick fix for Trump or our damaged democracy — and the Democrats still look hopeless. By Andrew O’Hehir.

Aaron Sorkin’s political drama shows everything wrong with the Democratic worldview. By Luke Savage.

As a powerful grassroots movement emerges, some want to use it for their own gain. The history of the Tea Party has important lessons on how to avoid that. By Thomas Frank.

It's obvious that hypocrisy runs in the Trump family.