Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is doing everything liberals have been begging progressives to do for years. She working with the party. She's staying respectful instead of throwing bombs all day. She's pushing the party to the left without doing her level best to divide it. But ...read more

Note: the following is the second in an ongoing series about the sexism problem on the left. To read the first of these pieces, click here.  I’ve been dissatisfied with Bernie Sanders’ supporters since he announced his campaign back in June of 2015, not because I was angry that ...read more

It's a long-standing political trope that politicians have to appeal to their base during the primary by heading towards the fringe and then tack back towards the center in the general. Jeb Bush even made a stink about it before getting Trumped: Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush made ...read more

If you've been following events here at the Banter over the past couple of days, you will have noticed an epic bust up between myself and some people in the #BlackLivesMatter movement over the behavior of Marissa Janae Johnson and Mara Jacqeline Willaford, the women who stormed ...read more

By Ted Lieverman: I get uneasy when I see liberals and progressives complaining so vigorously about President Barack Obama’s lack of accomplishments. Sure, the last four years have seen many mistakes and disappointments by the White House. But when I think about the realistic ...read more