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The Koch Brothers Commissioned a Survey of Americans and Found Most Like a $15 Minimum Wage, Free College, and Universal Health Care
Where the Koch brothers see government tyranny, most Americans see common-sense solutions to basic problems, it turns out. Nick Surgey, Zaid Jilani.
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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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Can liberals please work out how to win back the working class?
I’m taking a pause from journalism – while I’m gone, can someone please work out how to win back the working class? By Thomas Frank.
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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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Ocasio-Cortez, the GOP's Midterm Boogeyman?
While the New York congressional candidate is an anomaly when it comes Democratic Socialists of America winning federal-level primaries thus far, energy within her party is mounting around policy ideas the movement espouses, including the abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcements, Medicare for All, a $15 an hour federal minimum wage, and tax increases for wealthy Americans. By Caitlin Huey-Burns.
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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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Trevor [Noah] Celebrates Nelson Mandela’s 100th Birthday
The Daily Show
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders Are Trying to Prove Their Case in Kansas
Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders have more expansive aims than electing Brent Welder. They want to prove their theory of the progressive case. By David Dayen.
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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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America's Misguided War on Lead Exposure in Children
An overemphasis on blood testing and case management for even low exposures is draining resources and ignoring the real need: Eliminating lead paint.
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Democrats: Doomed to Repeat the 2016 Election
A progressive upset in Texas recalls Hillary and Bernie all over again. By W. James Antle III.
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Bernie's Economist Explains Why We Can Actually Have Nice Things
The Young Turks
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Why the Great Society Worked
Liberals often take the wrong lessons from LBJ’s presidency. By Michael Kazin.
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Diseased Streets
The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit surveyed a section of downtown San Francisco to determine the amount of feces, hypodermic needles, and garbage littering the heart of the city.
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Liberalism is the most successful idea of the past 400 years
But its best years are behind it, according to a new book.
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In Haringey [England] the people have taken over, not the hard left
Council leader Claire Kober has quit. Rightwingers claim it’s a Momentum plot, but this was all about residents fighting to save their homes, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty.
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DNC Chair Tom Perez, the Democratic Party’s Grim Metaphor
The corporate power structure of the Democratic Party, institutionalized in the DNC, has not given up on blocking efforts to reform the party and how it chooses a presidential nominee. By Norman Solomon. (Jan. 25, 2018)
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Intersectionality is a Hole. Afro-Pessimism is a Shovel. We Need to Stop Digging
The US left has a fundamental problem, perhaps the root of most of its other problems. That fundamental problem is that the US left is not organized as or led by any class conscious or class oriented formations. Union membership is somewhere around 5% of the workforce, and major unions have long been captured by the Democratic party. By Bruce A. Dixon.
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Democracy is Norm Erosion
“[W]hile that discourse of norm erosion won’t do much to limit Trump and the GOP, its real contribution will be to mark the outer limits of left politics, just at a moment when we’re seeing the rise of a left that seems willing to push those limits.” By Corey Robin.
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RIP Marc Raskin, Who Connected the Dots Between Inequality and War
The late IPS co-founder consistently connected the dots between America’s military adventures overseas and economic and racial injustice at home. By Sarah Anderson. (Jan. 4, 2018)
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