I really appreciated this Politico interview with Sean McElwee on how the left needs to be thinking about electoral politics. McElwee, who co-founded Data for Progress, came into the spotlight in 2017
One thought I’ve had a lot over the last couple of years is that the real power of the rejuvenated left will truly be determined in the next recession, not in this presidential election. The big
This is the grave of Meridel Le Sueur. Born in 1900 in Murray, Iowa, she grew up in a reformist family. Her family was involved in temperance, Populism, labor rights, the IWW, and other political move
I haven’t written about the Green New Deal movement here, a result of being overwhelmed this semester. With that slowly wrapping up, let me at least link to this Mike Konczal piece explaining wh
Jacobin’s quality control has never been its strength and combined with the impossible to kill dogma among certain leftists that so-called “identity politics” are a black hole that c
Dayen’s profile of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s recent visit to Los Angeles was I thought quite telling about how an individual can help a movement grow and help her own political career by
Building on my post yesterday about the left approaching electoral politics like it approaches a new tattoo–an extremely individualistic expression of personal consumer values that avoids solida
It is a few weeks old now, but I just discovered this review of a recent George McGovern biography and it gets at what I think of as a really critical issue–the abdication of any meaningful fore