Michael Kazin is one of the most important historians of labor and the left in recent decades and was until not long ago one of the long-time editors of Dissent. He has a new book out on the history of the Democratic Party which I...
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These are very frustrating times for a lot of us because Manchin and Sinema and Gottheimer and Schrader and a handful of Democrats who exist to represent big donors instead.
Image from The New York Times, November 8, 2020 If I could design the American health-care system from scratch, it would combine universal, government-provided insurance with the ability to purchase.
Sean McCaffity I've known Sean McCaffity since he was in high school—and probably since I was in high school, but I'm not entirely sure. We both debated in high school and college, although Sean was more successful than I ever was—he won the National Debate...
My general position on the 2020 presidential nomination is that all of the candidates, except for Tulsi Gabbard or Michael Bloomberg if he runs, are basically acceptable and all believe.
Mike Konczal and Nell Abernathy have a call to arms, urging the Democratic Party to embrace economic freedom as a core strategy. They identify three freedoms, as opposed to FDR's.
Doyle McManus turns on the latest version of DEMS IN DISARRAY! with a vengeance. Democrats may be locked in a struggle for the soul of their party, but that’s been true in almost every election cycle since 1828. What’s striking this time is how strangely...
After Tammy Duckworth's bizarre shot at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez earlier this week, I realized that the mainstream Democratic Party is scared of her. They are scared of the grassroots taking over..
Eric Levitz has a really great essay pushing back against the idea that the Democratic Party making inroads with upper-middle class voters is going to make it harder to push.
There's a leftist component to Murc's Law--that in American political discourse, only Democrats have agency, for those uninitiated to the maxim. We see that a lot on the labor left, where Democrats are seen as feckless sellouts who throw labor under the bus time and...
Sarah Jaffe has a really good piece on some of the leftists running for office which is worth reading just to know about these people. But the real plus of.
I don't want to be unfair to Damon Linker's argument here, where he notes the tepidness of the DNC's "Fair Deal" proposal and says that what the party really needs.