Adam Hilton is an associate professor at Mount Holyoke College.
Democrats have a choice: continue as the loyal opposition in a political order defined primarily by the populist right, or mobilize a transformative ideological vision and distinctive set of policies capable of defining the political order itself.
The Democratic Party, and the US political system as a whole, is a very strange beast.
Desperate for unity, the Democrats have clipped the superdelegates’ wings. It’s another win for the Bernie wing of the party.
Brazile’s DNC revelations don’t change anything for the Left.
The Democratic Party has a history of throwing up barriers to working-class organization that Bernie Sanders will find hard to overcome.
Bernie Sanders has called for a “political revolution.” But the New Politics movement shows the challenges of accomplishing that within the Democratic Party.