Broken by Design: Why San Diego and Cities Across America Need Choice Voting

by Andrea St Julian | May 2, 2026 | Elections, Electoral Politics, Electoral Reform | 1 comment

Those of us who have spent years working toward a more just democracy understand something that most people learn only after years of frustration: the problem is rarely just the people in power. The problem is the system that puts them there and keeps them there. San...

Ballot Access in New York State: Three Times Harder than in Putin’s Russia’s

by Howie Hawkins | Mar 16, 2026 | Electoral Politics | 0 comments

It is currently nearly impossible for the Green Party of New York to place statewide candidates on the ballot and then enough votes for Governor or President to acquire ballot status. Green candidates for offices that are voted on statewide (President, US Senator,...

A Sobering but Hopeful Take on Mamdani’s Election

by Howie Hawkins | Feb 8, 2026 | Election Analysis, Electoral Politics | 0 comments

Editors’ Note: This article was originally published in New Politics, Winter 2026 (New Politics Vol. XX No. 4, Whole Number 80), https://newpol.org/issue_post/a-sobering-but-hopeful-take-on-mamdanis-election/. I do not share the euphoria of so many progressives...

Complicity Is Bipartisan: How Both Parties Enabled the Destruction of Gaza

by Andrew Messick | Sep 3, 2025 | Electoral Politics | 0 comments

By early 2025, the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza had become undeniable. Entire neighborhoods leveled. Tens of thousands dead. Children starving. And through it all, the United States – the self-declared leader of the free world – was not only complicit but...

Fly Over Lives Matter

by Steve Welzer | May 27, 2025 | Elections, Electoral Politics, From the Archives, Green Strategy | 0 comments

Analysis of the 2016 presidential election (appeared in Green Horizon Spring 2017) Hillary Clinton didn’t do poorly on November 8. She won the popular vote by more than two million. She had large margins in the states where she was expected to do well. She lost by a...

Safe States, Inside-Outside, and Other Liberal Illusions

by Howie Hawkins | Nov 21, 2024 | Electoral Politics, From the Archives, Green Strategy | 1 comment

This article is part of our From the Archives Series, in which we repost past articles that still have relevance today. Originally Published in CounterPunch on May 10, 2016. Bernie Sanders is on his way to an endorsement of Hillary Clinton, the candidate of War, Wall...