We’ve taken a break from this format for a few weeks, but we’re back with some of our favorite writing from the month of October. Going forward, we will […]

I was at first surprised that Bernie Sanders’s recent proposal to allow formerly and currently incarcerated people to vote was as controversial as it was. One of my takeaways from […]

In 2017, Benoît Hamon was in a bind. He had beaten Manuel Valls in the Socialist Party primary running as a radical, promising France’s left-wing voters that he would reverse […]

Image by Mark Dillman via Wikimedia Commons (Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication ; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez_July_2018.jpg) Over the last several years I’ve tried to resist comparisons between Jean-Luc Mélenchon and […]