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Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, right, and Attorney General of New York Letitia James walk in the NYC Pride March on June 29, 2025, in New York. AP Photo/Olga Fedorova

July 29, 2025

When socialists win Democratic primaries: Will Zohran Mamdani be haunted by the Upton Sinclair effect?

James N. Gregory, University of Washington

After Sinclair won the California Democratic primary in 1934, business and media elites helped derail his bid for the governorship.

Eugene Debs, center, imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Prison, was notified of his nomination for the presidency on the socialist ticket by a delegation of leading socialists who came from New York to Atlanta. George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images

April 18, 2023

The presidential campaign of Convict 9653

Thomas Doherty, Brandeis University

Can you run for president from a prison cell? One man did in the 1920 election and got almost a million votes.

An editorial cartoon from 1900 shows the Populist Party swallowing the Democratic Party. J.S. Pughe/Buyenlarge/Getty Images

June 22, 2021

US third parties can rein in the extremism of the two‑party system

Bernard Tamas, Valdosta State University

The most successful third parties in US politics don’t typically rise to dominance, but instead challenge the major parties enough to force a course correction.

September 5, 2019

Senegal: is the Socialist Party set for a leadership battle?

Moussa Diaw, Université Gaston Berger

Aside from wrangles over leadership, there’s now a face-off between two movements within one of Senegal’s most influential political parties

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