The Left
This is shooting fish in a barrel, I know. But I could not let this insipid Vox essay by a young Jill Stein voter go unmentioned. It’s hard to say.
I've been pretty disappointed in Kshama Sawant this election because she has mistaken what works in leftist politics to what doesn't work. What works is exactly what she did--challenging the.
Of all the Democratic primary postmortems I have read, the smartest is from Communication Workers of America official Bob Master. Exploring the various success and failures of the Sanders movement,.
Over the next few days, I'm going to be writing about a number of interesting Democratic primary post-mortems. Not Freddie DeBoer's. Not enough mangoes in the world for that, although.
Ronald Aronson has an interesting, if rather lengthy, essay about the privatization of hope, adapted from his forthcoming book. I don't agree with all of it. He falls into the.
This is a curious article by the historian Matt Karp, arguing against Hillary Clinton's "fortress liberalism," which itself a play of Rich Yeselson's "fortress unionism" strategy for the labor movement..
In my posts last week about the Chicago Teachers Union strike and the politics of individualism versus the politics of solidarity, an argument came up that is common and which.
Interesting long essay at Jacobin by Paul Heideman about how the left tried to remake the Democratic Party in the 1960s and 1970s and why it failed. While I can.