E.J. Dionne

We must push back hard against attempts to contain or block political participation by any given group.

The spending they favor, including in Biden’s American Families Plan, is for government interventions that have been tested and proved.

A man rooted in an old industry and in organized labor’s oldest traditions worked to secure its future by acknowledging the shortcomings of its past.

But if Biden has been right in saying that our democracy’s health depends on the country’s political system demonstrating its capacity to undertake ambitious projects, democracy’s success also requires — well, that it remain a democracy.

We have become far too timid about amending our founding document to deal with new problems and changed circumstances.

Doing everything that Democrats would like could exceed the spending total some might find comfortable, but spending too little means priorities will be excluded.

Can Democrats move the debate to what Biden, Sanders and others on the left want to accomplish?

This movement is putting politics ahead of faith and ideology ahead of theology.

The movement for change ignited by police killings of Black Americans is running headlong into public alarm at a wave of murders across the nation.

Merrick Garland’s Democratic critics should be a bit more empathetic because he faces a genuine dilemma.