Progressive foreign policy is at its core a paradox. It seeks to promote a more peaceful, interdependent, and egalitarian world in which human rights are protected and the developing world can flourish along with a prosperous United States. Yet the thing most capable of making all of that happen—American power in all of its forms, military and otherwise—is what progressives fear and revile the most.
On January 21, 2017, the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, millions of people took to the streets across the country to protest the 45th president and support a host of progressive causes. The Women’s March, as the protests were called, became a broader, unified movement of the political left, and the darling of so many in the media and Democratic politicians who called for resistance against societal “oppression” in the age of Trump.
Several progressive organizations blasted the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, or DCCC, on Wednesday for announcing a leadership team consisting entirely of pro-business Democrats from the New Democrat Coalition.
Our Revolution, a political nonprofit that spun off of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) 2016 presidential campaign, lost nearly $250,000 to an email scam that same year, according to new tax documents.
Since the 2016 presidential election, crowdfunding sites have become a top fundraising destination for progressive activists forming the so-called resistance to President Donald Trump.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D.) is dismissing the burgeoning contingent of self-described democratic socialists successfully running for office under the Democratic Party’s banner as a “fluke.”
Folasade Adeluola, a self-described “Obamacrat activist” challenging Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I.) in the Democratic Senate primary, has filed an elections complaint saying Sanders is not a “true candidate” for the Democratic Party’s nomination.
