Obama failed to make big changes after the last economic crisis, and that meant painful losses for the president, his party, and the American people.

Can Elizabeth Warren run for president and bring ideas back into our politics, all at the same time?

You can amass great influence and power building the infrastructure for lasting Democratic rule ... or you can run for president.

The 2020 presidential candidate's quest to rid the country of "dark psychic forces" recalls America's Civil War–era need for healing.

Trump is turning the Republican Party even whiter and more male than before, with profound consequences for party and country alike.

As has been true for over 200 years, the next president will be chosen by an eighteenth-century anachronism. American voters deserve better.

Candidates should be focusing on retail politicking in Iowa and New Hampshire. Instead, they're wasting money trying to meet arbitrary debate requirements.

The CNN debates paid a historic amount of attention to the climate crisis—but were still embarrassingly behind the curve.

Biden seems to believe that everything in America was rosy until Trump took office, and he's offering himself as a time machine.

The sinister influence on the Senate majority leader is not the Kremlin, but a Republican Party that seeks to keep certain Americans from voting.

Warren and Sanders easily countered attacks from desperate moderates at Tuesday's debate and delivered compelling visions for America.

Jay Inslee says the next four years "is our last chance ... to do something about it." Is he right?

He and several other candidates have issued plans that appear ambitious only because America's system is so broken.

Why impeachment can’t penetrate the cult of D.C. savvy.

Why did the senator switch from anti-Trump to the president's biggest supporter in Congress? Perhaps it's not a mystery after all.

Running as the inheritor of Obama's legacy, the former vice president offers a health care plan that lacks audacity and offers little hope.

Pundits say Trump's tweets about "The Squad" are part of a master plan. They're wrong.

Joe Biden hoped to guard his frontrunner status and stay above the 2020 campaign fray. Now he'll have to run to keep up with the pack.

This crisis deserves far more than 15 minutes of airtime.

The 2020 presidential candidate raised a mountain of money last quarter, and a lot of it came from Silicon Valley.