Elizabeth Warren

Did Gender Keep Democratic Women From Winning The Presidential Primary?

Gender was definitely a factor in this year's Democratic primaries. How could it not be after what the party has seen over the past four years? But the ways in which attitudes about gender impacted the outcome are varied and, of course, more than a bit complicated.

Biden Must Pick Warren: She’d Balance the Ticket and Invigorate the Party as No Other Veep Could

by Jonathan Zimmerman

Tapping Warren for vice-president might be just the ticket to unite Democrats and unseat President Trump in November.

Klobuchar’s hot dish and Warren’s heart-shaped cakes soothe our unfounded fear of women in office

by Stacy J. Williams

Female candidates are using their culinary skills to win elections.

A Historical Look At Whether A Democrat Can Win By Playing To The Progressive Base Featuring Michael Kazin

Featuring historian Michaael Kazin. 

One Big Thing the Dems Get Wrong About Warren

by John F. Harris

The political establishment loves the center. But it’s the radicals who end up writing history.

Throwing Away the “Electability” Argument

by Matthew Crawford

There is no historical basis for the idea that women and minority candidates aren’t electable.

The woman behind Elizabeth Warren’s blueprint for the presidency

by Rebecca Brenner Graham

Frances Perkins, the first female Cabinet secretary, is a model for how to bring activism to government.

Frederick Douglass photos smashed stereotypes. Could Elizabeth Warren selfies do the same?

Douglass sat for scores of pictures to normalize the idea of black excellence and equality, and Warren’s thousands of selfies with supporters could do the same for a female president.

Elizabeth Warren’s historically sound case against the filibuster

by Julian Zelizer

The Senate rule has long been used as a weapon against civil rights and other progressive legislation.

The DNA Industry and the Disappearing Indian

by Aviva Chomsky

DNA, Race, and Native Rights

Niall Ferguson says the fracas over Elizabeth Warren reveals a deep flaw in liberal politics

by Niall Ferguson

Identity politics is devouring itself.

How Pocahontas — the myth and the slur — props up white supremacy

by Honor Sachs

The roots of the attacks on Elizabeth Warren.

How Unprecedented Would It Be to Have a President with Native American Ancestry?

by David Pietrusza

From 1920 through 1932 the National Republican ticket boasted a nominee with Native American blood.

So, Senator Warren: You’re Clearly Running for President

by Andrew Bacevich

Here’s some unsolicited advice on becoming the foreign policy leader America needs.

What Harvard professors who were part of Elizabeth Warren’s hiring say about it

More than 60 Harvard professors were eligible to vote on whether to offer Elizabeth Warren a tenured position at the law school in 1993. The Globe reached out to all of the living professors who could have been in that room to ask whether her claims to Native American heritage were a factor in their votes.

Trump wants Warren to prove her Native American heritage.

Could she?

Why 'Nevertheless, She Persisted' Is the Theme for This Year's Women's History Month

“‘Nevertheless, She Persisted’ is really about every woman who really had to use her tenacity and courage to accomplish whatever she set out to accomplish. It’s universal,” said Molly Murphy MacGregor, executive director and co-founder of the National Women’s History Project.

Elizabeth Warren’s striking speech responding to Trump’s “Pocahontas” taunts

“Pocahontas’s real journey was far more remarkable — and far darker — than the myth admits.”

The dark history of Pocahontas, whose name Trump keeps evoking to slam Elizabeth Warren

"Pocahontas" was the nickname of a teenage girl who was abducted by English colonists in 1613 and died at about the age of 21.

Silencing Elizabeth Warren: Gag rules have a long, dark history

by Manisha Sinha

When Sen. Mitch McConnell declared of Sen. Elizabeth Warren that "she was warned" and yet "she persisted," he sounded like a throwback to a time when conservatives sought to silence abolitionist women like the Grimke sisters, and before them the black woman abolitionist Maria Stewart, who dared to speak out against slavery.