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 ...

Following a socialist sweep in New York City’s Tuesday elections, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are dictating their terms and sending warnings to the ...

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 ...

The deep-blue Empire State got hit by a socialist red wave Tuesday. Nearly all DSA candidates were poised to best incumbent and establishment Democrats in state legislative primary races. Seven of the ...

Powered by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s support and the political energy he generated a year ago, democratic socialist candidates in Queens swept races for Congress, the State Senate and State Assembly on ...