YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Harris-Style Freedom For The Working Class
Plus, clean energy cleans up, immigration reform becomes a family matter, and plastic bags get sacked.
Elections
Fear And Corporate Loathing At The DNC
At Dems’ convention, The Lever’s David Sirota explores the tension between the party’s populist rhetoric and its corporate sponsors.
Here’s What The Senate Must Do To Deliver Harris’ DNC Promises
The candidate laid out big plans at the DNC last night — but Democrats need to remove the barrier standing in her way.
Will Harris Finally Kill Wall Street’s Infamous Tax Break?
Democrats have pledged to close a tax loophole benefiting private equity billionaires — but amid millions in Wall Street donations, the party has failed to do so for years.
Leonard Leo’s Swing-State Voter Purge
Lawyers with deep connections to the Supreme Court dark-money operative are attacking voting rights in battleground states in the lead-up to the 2024 election.
Harris Has To Decide: Senate Decorum Or Working-Class Policy
Harris capitulated to niceties rather than help workers — will she act differently now?
Are We Allowed To Ask What President Harris Would Do?
Harris is only now starting to leak details of her policy agenda — but do voters even care?
Will Harris Vibes Deliver Walz Policy?
The Democratic ticket offers vagueness, corporate ties, and now laudable prairie populism. What will the agenda actually be?
Are White Nationalists Behind The GOP’s Worker Surveillance Push?
A nonprofit with hate group ties is using a major GOP apparatus to push a controversial employee verification system to crush immigration.
Is Tim Walz the Real Deal?
On Lever Time, we unpack the career of Tim Walz, Kamala Harris’ choice for running mate, and explore how he managed to win over a divided Democratic Party.