The two leading progressives among the Democratic presidential hopefuls will face off in Detroit on Tuesday night with eight other 2020 candidates in the party’s second set of debates. Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., have staked out far-left positions on student debt forgiveness and single-payer healthcare but so far have avoided going after each other. The Democrats are once again divided into two debates that will air Tuesday and Wednesday at 8 p.m. EDT on CNN.

Among all the abuses of the democratic process in America, none is more arrogant than the gerrymander. I argued that point here 25 years ago, but the danger is more acute now.

WASHINGTON—U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., announced Monday he will no longer seek the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, becoming the first candidate to pull out of the 2020 race. He plans to instead run for reelection to his congressional seat in the San Francisco Bay Area. Swalwell, who has served in Congress since 2013, said that the “polls have had their way” with his campaign. He was in danger of being excluded from the next debates at the end of this month due to low polling and donation numbers.

Tim Carney is commentary editor at the Washington Examiner and a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. His new book, Alienated America, examines why some places thrive while others collapse and explains 2016 voting patterns. Here are edited excerpts of our interview. 

Another set of Democratic presidential hopefuls debated Thursday night in Miami, this time taking aim at the current front-runner in the race, former Vice President Joe Biden. Biden, Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Kamala Harris of California, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, and Michael Bennet of Colorado, Rep. Eric Swalwell of California, Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado, businessman and activist Andrew Yang, and self-help author Marianne Williamson made up Thursday night’s lineup. Ten other Democratic candidates, including Sen.

Ten Democratic presidential hopefuls took the stage in Miami on Wednesday night, striving to make their cases to voters in the first debate of the primary season.

The first debates of the 2020 presidential campaign season are set to take place this week in Miami, with so many Democrats seeking their party’s nomination that the Democratic National Committee split the field in two. The first group of candidates square off Wednesday night, followed by a second group on Thursday. The DNC used a random selection process to divide the candidates.