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Vice President Vance shared a list of the three progressive politicians who he said, in an interview with NBC News published Thursday, he has come to appreciate. In a wide-ranging interview that ...

National media has been captivated by the mayoral campaign of New York State assembly member Zohran Mamdani, heralded as part of a new wing of progressive politicians during the second Trump ...

Democratic socialism is having a moment, between Zohran Mamdani's buzzy mayoral campaign in New York City, Omar Fateh's candidacy in the Minneapolis mayoral race and the ongoing influence of Rep.

The shunning of Mamdani is an important illustration of the state of the Democratic Party in 2025. It shows some unfortunate truths about the party’s center-left establishment and points to some clear ...

We’re at least two election cycles away from grasping the impact and potential of our shift to district City Council elections in Santa Cruz. Downtown housing construction, driven as it is by the ...

A philosophical festering has taken root in the minds of the left that their opponents are evil, and words are violence. A permission structure formed on MSNBC and other progressive media outlets that ...

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ANALYSIS: Truman Scholarship program continues to subsidize the careers of Democratic activists Roughly 80 percent of the 2017 and 2018 Truman Scholars remain in liberal politics within a decade after ...