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Bobby Kennedy
March 4, 2021
Walter Shapiro
The Cult of the Thuggish Democratic Politician
Obsessed with looking tough, the party has elevated bullies like Andrew Cuomo for years. Is that changing?
May 25, 2018
MagazineWin McCormack
RFK, Civic Republican
What a Bobby Kennedy presidency could have meant for American political life
November 1, 2017
Richard D. Kahlenberg
The Making of a Tough-Minded Liberal
Chris Matthews's new biography of Bobby Kennedy revisits the promise of an inclusive populism.
December 13, 2016
Graham Vyse
How Democrats Can Bridge Identity Politics and Economic Populism
Some on the left are touting "the Bobby Kennedy coalition" as a model of multicultural working class politics.
June 6, 2014
Robert Lowell
R.F.K (1925-1968)
A poem in memory of Bobby Kennedy's death
September 14, 2012
Nathan Heller
The Cranky Wisdom of Peter Kaplan
June 21, 2012
Sean Wilentz
Efficacy and Democracy
May 5, 2012
Alec MacGillis
Obama’s Choice: “All Together Now” Populism
March 23, 2010
Martin Peretz
Wind Farm Endangered By Dead Indians
January 15, 2010
Martin Peretz
New York's Second Senate Seat
December 8, 2009
Abbas Milani
The Great Satan Myth
May 8, 2008
Mark Schmitt
Mark Schmitt On The Unity Ticket
June 22, 2007
The New Republic Staff
Jfk As God
January 16, 2006
Martin Peretz
Cambridge Diarist
November 12, 2001
Jennifer Homans
The Undying Swan

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