Is Harris’ Big Tent About To Burst?
Vice President Kamala Harris has built a broad coalition that stretches from climate activists to a former oil company CEO, all of them aligned against former President Donald Trump. But if Harris win...
27 Sep 202444min
The Secret Plot To Buy American Democracy
In 1971, Lewis Powell, a tobacco industry lawyer and future Supreme Court justice, penned a memo calling on conservatives and business interests to make the nation’s legal system far more friendly to ...
20 Sep 202453min
Will The Real Kamala Harris Please Stand Up? (Part 2)
When Kamala Harris first ran for president in 2019, she promised to deliver Medicare for All to the people — but that changed. Early in her campaign, she frequently referred to a 2017 bill she co-spon...
13 Sep 202443min
Will The Real Kamala Harris Please Stand Up? (Part 1)
In television commercials, at speeches, and on the campaign trail, Vice President Kamala Harris frequently boasts that she stood up to big banks as California's attorney general. But her sloganeering ...
6 Sep 202438min
Fear And Corporate Loathing At The DNC
The Lever’s David Sirota reports on his adventures at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, sharing his on-the-ground reporting on Democrats’ fear of another Trump presidency and their rhetor...
23 Aug 202447min
Are We Allowed To Ask What President Harris Would Do?
Vice President Kamala Harris’ ascent to presumptive Democratic nominee has upended the presidential contest and energized Democratic voters — but what’s the policy behind the vibes? On Friday, Harris ...
16 Aug 202450min
The American Roots Of The World’s Right-Wing Nationalism
For more than a decade, global politics have been rocked by the rise of right-wing nationalist governments. Similar to Donald Trump’s rise in the United States, countries like India, Hungary, Brazil, ...
9 Aug 202443min
Is Tim Walz the Real Deal?
On Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, a move that drew praise from a wide swath of the party, from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Sen. Joe Ma...
7 Aug 202445min
