Jon Cowan is president and Matt Bennett is executive vice president of Third Way. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) first ran for president as a self-described “democratic socialist” a decade ago. Since ...

The general idea that Democratic Party loyalists seem to have about members of the Democratic Socialists of America is that they’re a lot like Democrats, but perhaps a bit more passionate. Voters in ...

For most of American history, the word socialist conjured Marx, Lenin, Mao, and Castro, which is why calling yourself one was considered political suicide in this country. Then Bernie Sanders ...

The Overton window is the range of views a society treats as acceptable, and it moves over time—sometimes dramatically. Same-sex marriage was outside the window in 2008, when Barack Obama said he ...

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) on Sunday reacted to chants of “you’re next” from members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) directed at House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). CNN’s ...

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are eyeing a 2028 presidential bid in the wake of recent electoral successes across the country. DSA Co-chair Ashik Siddique told The Hill in a Thursday ...

For years, Democratic Party leaders convinced themselves they had struck a clever bargain with the Democratic Socialists of America. The DSA would provide the energy. The activists. The volunteers.

To the mayor, it's the beginning of a wave of democratic socialists gaining seats at all levels of government. "It is an incredible night,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani told NY1 on primary night. “And I think ...

If Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the 2025 mayoral election was the moment that announced the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) as a true political force in the city, ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Three progressive congressional candidates endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani won Democratic primaries Tuesday, a sweep that ...

Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. Socialist candidates racked up victories in New York’s primary ...