Prospect

She’s comfortable, joyful and, last night, authoritative. And the party helped her get there.

Democrats are hitting all the notes that have eluded them.

The Chamber of Progress, which held a briefing panel this week at the DNC, contrasts with Kamala Harris’s early approach on key issues.

The Harris-Walz ticket and every Democrat are promising big things. But the filibuster makes that agenda impossible. Will they finally remove that barrier?

African Americans know in their bones that there’s nothing new about the perils ahead.

Democrats aim for the middle of the middle of Middle America.

Here’s some evidence from New Zealand and one of the achievements of Jacinda Ardern.

Many of the corporate-sponsored events, and even some that aren’t, are locked down to the press.

The theme for the second night of the Democratic National Convention could have been summed up in one word: Mothers.

It’s OK to have fun in politics.

The new and improved Democrats sound like some very old and very good Democrats of long ago.

Gov. Walz signed into law one of the most progressive packages ever. He didn’t do it alone.

The Democrats’ vice-presidential nominee has won extraordinary advances in worker safety in Minnesota.

And other observations by the UAW’s president

The Democratic glitterati turn out to pump up the delegates working overtime to turn the state blue.

Democrats are still in thrall to doing everything all at once.

The Uncommitted movement convinces the Democratic Party to convene a discussion on the war in Gaza.

A dispatch from the March on the DNC

The president got a late start and a rousing send-off.

The plan isn’t focused entirely on YIMBY ideas, or rent-limiting ideas.