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Donald Trump greets German Chancellor Friedrich Merz upon arrival at the White House, June 5, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Is "centrism" having a moment? Yeah, no

Andrew O'Hehir
Joe Lieberman and Joe Manchin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Reactionary centrism: How it helps Trump

Paul Rosenberg
Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton (Getty Images/ Salon)

How Trump's still Democrats' best weapon

Heather Digby Parton
Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

What does it mean to be "too far left"?

David Masciotra
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA); Former Vice President Joe Biden; Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) (AP/Getty/Salon)

Dems' quest for the "center" is doomed

Sophia A. McClennen
John Hickenlooper (AP/Charlie Neibergall)

Hickenlooper discusses campaign shakeup

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump; Mitch McConnell (AP/Salon)

Democrats, this isn’t politics as usual

Robert Reich
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to members of the press at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Why the data says a centrist would lose

Keith A. Spencer
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Joe Biden; Nancy Pelosi (Getty/Salon)

Boring and centrist isn't "electable"

Amanda Marcotte
Rep. Tim Ryan; Sen. Michael Bennet (AP/Nati Harnik/Rebecca Blackwell)

Bennet and Ryan running for president

Matthew Rozsa
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders on "Face The Nation", both advocates for the Green New Deal, a Keynesian stimulus project comparable to President Roosevelt's New Deal albeit with an eco-friendly twist. (CBS)

Comey's advice to Dems: No socialism

Matthew Rozsa
Joe Lieberman; John Hickenlooper (Getty Images/Photo montage by Salon)

Does Democratic centrism have a future?

Matthew Rozsa
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (AP/Denis Poroy)

Cali Dems snub Feinstein on endorsement

Charlie May
FILE - In this May 12, 1960, file photo, President Dwight Eisenhower, front right, shakes hands with Rep. Arch Moore, of West Virginia, as he poses with a group of Republican congressmen after breakfast at the White House, in Washington. Moore, whose guilty pleas to federal corruption charges overshadowed his record as his era's most successful Republican in Democrat-dominated West Virginia, died Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015. He was 91. (AP Photo/Bill Allen, File) (AP)

Is there still an American center?

Louis Galambos - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Senate to scale back bank regulations

Charlie May
Chuck Schumer (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Do better than "A Better Deal"

Conor Lynch
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Joe Lieberman defends centrism

Matthew Rozsa
(Reuters/Yuri Gripas)

Trump and gridlock

Matthew Rozsa
Joe Lieberman (Salon/Benjamin Wheelock/Getty/Drew Angerer)

Where have the centrists gone?

Matthew Rozsa
Bernie Sanders (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Yes, Bernie would have won

Conor Lynch
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Brendan Gauthier
David Brooks (AP/Nam Y. Huh)

David Brooks' centrist fantasy

Simon Maloy
Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 28, 2016. (Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)

The foolish Tim Kaine hedge

Conor Lynch
Mark Zuckerberg (Reuters/Jose Miguel Gomez)

Down with the Innovation Party

Simon Maloy
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