Will Marshall

Have you noticed that the president has been kind to Bernie lately? There’s a reason for that. Or actually, a whole boatload of reasons.

Three very different new surveys find that Americans don’t understand our approach to the world now. It’s time to change that.

What’s hip in Brooklyn won’t play so well in middle America, where even rank-and-file Democrats want a message that’s more about fixing capitalism than ditching it.

More bureaucracies in Washington won’t do much to improve lives. The public-sector success stories of today are the nimble and innovative metro regions.

The only voices backing Trump on steel? From the left. But rank-and-file Democrats are free traders—by huge margins. Something’s gotta give.

To expand beyond its base will take more than resistance. The party needs to offer big ideas and a big tent.

The Democrats’ ‘Better Deal’ is fine, but it speaks mostly to blue America. New Democracy is going hunting where the red and purple ducks are.

Nearly everywhere you look, parties of the left are on the skids. That’s a big part of why Macron won in France. If he delivers, it’ll point the new direction.

Things got hot and heavy between conservatives and populists, but they don’t really belong together over the long haul.

The art of political persuasion matters more than the mechanics of mobilization.