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Tulsi Gabbard: how a progressive rising star is a paradox for the left
The Hawaii congresswoman is backed by Bernie Sanders, but her controversial opinions have some progressives miffed. By Sabrina Siddiqui.
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So, How’s That Major-Party Election Madness Working for Us?
The United States is full of personally decent and caring, often highly intelligent people mired in political ignorance and delusion. By Paul Street.
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Party Unity is for Rubes
If you want to beat Trump, start by fighting the Democrats. By Michael Kinnucan.
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Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez Are Not Socialists — What Are They?
Both Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the new Democratic nominee for Congress in New York, describe themselves as socialists. But, in fact, there is no evidence they actually are. By Roy Cordato.
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Hickenlooper has set his sights on 2020, could he be president?
The Democratic Party has a track record of picking dark horse governors, including Jimmy Carter in 1976, Michael Dukakis in 1988 and Bill Clinton in 1992.
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There Is No Silent Centrist Majority
The base of the Democratic Party is much further to the left than moderates recognize. By Sarah Jones.
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Fighting Words
No, “liberal” and “progressive” aren’t synonyms. They have completely different histories—and the differences matter. By Sean Wilentz.
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Look upon my neon corporate wokeness, ye Mighty, and despair
The Hillary Clinton-headlining music festival [OZY Fest] was just as mind-blowingly dumb as you feared. By Jeva Lange.
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Pittsburgh feels the Bern as Bernie Sanders addresses national teachers conference
Pittsburgh felt the Bern on Sunday, but it wasn’t anything close to the torching that flamboyant U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders gave to the wealthiest Americans, Wall Street and President Donald Trump. By Bob Bauder.
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“Imagine Hillarys” With Increasingly Fanciful Endings
Imagine if Hillary were accused of assaulting 17 women and a talking rabbit with a pocket watch ran past and said, “Time’s up motherfuckers.” By Devorah Blachor. (May 2, 2018)
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Fascism and The Road to Unfreedom review – the warning from the 1930s
Madeleine Albright and Timothy Snyder have each written a book about the current threat to democracy, but do they have their history wrong? By Richard J Evans.
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The 'McConnell Rule' is law, and Senate Democrats should sue to enforce it
The minority party needs some remedy when the majority leader is immune to considerations of fairness and consistency in his exercise of the Senate’s constitutional powers.
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How Identity, Not Issues, Explains the Partisan Divide
New research has disturbing implications.
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Crisis averted: How the Democrats avoided disaster in California
It was painful getting there, but the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's strategy to intervene in the contentious and complicated primaries in California worked on Tuesday night and could be seen as an inflection point in the 2018 midterms should Democrats wrest control of the US House from Republicans in November.
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Forget Trump – populism is the cure, not the disease
Two recent books are typical of the current consensus in presenting populism as a new threat to liberal democracy. But properly understood, it is neither modern nor rightwing. By Thomas Frank.
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How Two House Democrats Defended Helping the GOP Weaken Dodd-Frank Financial Regulations
Ten years after the meltdown, Congress moves to loosen rules again. What could go wrong? By Lee Fang.
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“That Is Power”: Why Democrats Are Losing the Only Fight That Matters
Even in an era of historic media fragmentation, Donald Trump dominates our attention universe to the point where he blocks out the sun. Is it any wonder that people don’t have any idea what Democrats stand for? By Peter Hamby.
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We can't wait until election day to find out who's manipulating the vote this time
Disinformation is not going to slink away, vampire-style, in the face of sunlight. By Monika Bauerlein, Clara Jeffery.
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Book review: The road to unfreedom
Timothy Snyder doesn’t like Donald Trump. Really, really doesn’t like him. By Paul Robinson.
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Zombie History
In The Road to Unfreedom, Timothy Snyder’s vision of history driven by rival states and ruthless statesmen undermines his own insistence on the importance of individual responsibility. By Sophie Pinkham.
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