Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Teresa Ghilarducci Ph.D. is an Economics Professor. Some Democratic candidates are running (and occasionally winning) as Democratic Socialists.

As a result, two presidential cycles on, democratic socialists have now run and won races all the way up to the U.S. House, and democratic socialism has now become a “thing” in American politics.

An Asian immigrant, Ling Ye, is seeking to topple Democratic Socialist Brooklyn Councilwoman Alexa Avilés in the June 24 ...

Like nearly everyone else in the converted coffee shop, she’s a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and she asks me cheerily if I’m there to canvass.

Democratic socialism has been much in the news lately as the democratic candidates for president debate the future of their party. Bernie Sanders proudly calls himself a democratic socialist.

These are just a few of the wildly popular and life-changing policies that members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have, through local grassroots organizing, won for millions of ...

Joe Crowley in the New York Democratic congressional primary on Tuesday, the word "socialist" was repeatedly used to describe her. "Socialist" remains a dirty, and often misunderstood, term in the ...

“Real socialism hasn’t been tried ... Bernie Sanders has emerged as the Democratic front-runner in the race for the presidential nomination. Yet even some left-leaning pundits and publications ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Stuart Varney: Socialism leads to decline and ruin. Bernie Sanders: They may hate democratic socialism. Sean Hannity: And they think we, the people ...

Nearby, three activists bundled in winter clothes carried a banner in the blue and red colors of Puerto Rico’s flag, also waving overhead. It bore the name, Diaspora Pa’lante Collective, advocating ...

Jimmy Carter Was No Friend of the U.S. Navy An Alternative to Buying Greenland That Could Actually Work A Sorry President ‘Socialist’ is a more accurate description of today’s Democratic base.

Petitioner campaigned for Judge of County Criminal Court No. 8 in Harris County as a Democratic Socialist. At the time, he was known as an advocate for radical criminal justice reform. While in ...