The Best of The Indy’s Election Coverage

It's been, at turns, a strange, hopeful and horrific election season but it will draw to a close on Nov. 8, this Tuesday. Perhaps you are already asking yourself how we got in this mess. Here's a look back at The Indy's campaign coverage over the past year as we documented the many faces of Hillary, the rise of The Donald and how socialism became a word you can say in public again thanks to a grandpa from Brooklyn.  

October 2015

Born to Be a Crony Capitalist: How Donald Trump Really Got Rich By Peter Rugh

What's a Feminist to Do? Clinton's Run Surfaces Issues of Race, Gender and Class By Linda Martin Alcoff

November 2015

Socialism: No Longer a Dirty Word By Michael Steven Smith

February 2016

Funding the ‘Political Revolution’ $27 at a Time By Matt Shuham

March 2016

The Democrats, The Black Vote And The Politics of Fear By Glen Ford

April 2016

Battle of New York (Special Issue with Occupied Wall Street Journal)

May 2016

My Third-Degree Bern: Hope in a Time of Crisis By Nicholas Powers

They Lit the Bern, What Comes Next? By John Tarleton

June 2016

Did Identity Politics Destroy Sanders’ Chance of Winning? By Linda Martin Alcoff

Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom By John Tarleton

July 2016

Clinton Refuses to Labor for Working Class Votes By Steven Wishnia

Philadelphia DNC Photo Essay: Movements in Motion By Antrim Caskey
 

September 2016

What Are They Afraid of? Open the Debates By Jeff Cohen

October 2016 (Special Election Issue)

Payback Time: Immigrant Voters Prepare to Thump Trump By Eliza Relman

Drifting to Donald; Trump’s Best Chance of an Upset Victory Lies With Working Class Communities Like This One By Peter Rugh