Whether a candidate can inspire people, organize them, and deliver for them matters more than where they stand on an imaginary ideological continuum.

If there’s a visual language that connotes credibility and authority, why not take advantage of it?

Years of talking dirty politics—at two dollars a minute—offered a window into the sexual psychology of the modern right.

Taxes fund services. Even progressives sometimes don’t make the affirmative case for taxation as forcefully as we ought to.

Stevens takes the radical position that U.S. support for Israel should “go unquestioned.” If never questioning support for a genocidal state is “moderate,” then our definition of “moderate” needs to change.

Socialists are routinely accused of “hating America.” But you can’t truly love America and its people if you don’t oppose the political systems that keep them in poverty and despair.

When you stand for nothing, nobody wants to stand with you.

Governor Jeff Landry’s attacks on elections and Black voting power could become a national blueprint.