Socialism is rooted in a philosophical optimism that our movement is based in a majority.
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A conversation with Ben Davis, the author of Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy.
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In a matter of years, DSA has turned from a musty debate club for retired social democrats into an electoral powerhouse of young, ecumenical radicals. What’s next?
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Throughout the United States, racial separation remains a common feature of collective life. The consequences are significant for left political organizing aimed at building a multiracial working-class majority.
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A roundtable on Democrats and the left.
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There’s no hiding from the rest of the world.
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An interview with Senator Bernie Sanders’ foreign policy advisor Matt Duss.
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The left cannot afford to renounce its historical commitment to self-determination.
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Taxes demonstrate the legitimacy of democratic control of the economy. This is what conservatives cannot accept—and what surviving climate change will require.
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The politics of the 2010s and 2020s are about who the people are and what it means for them to matter.
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Federal housing policies contributed to the segregation of American cities in the twentieth century. But it was private interests that led the way.
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As much as organizers might wish for strategic unity, movements are diverse and messy formations that involve both inside and outside politics.
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If the conflicts of interest are real, and the stakes are felt to be high enough, then war between the United States and China is a real possibility, and our foreign policy must be oriented toward avoiding it.
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For those whose hyphenated identities straddle a divided world, life is a series of compromises.
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What connection does the party of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson have to the party of Barack Obama and Kamala Harris?
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A discussion on the Democratic Party, from its origins to the crack-up of the New Deal coalition and the rise of the right that followed.
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How did a scrappy group of organizers without institutional backing prevail over the second-largest employer in the United States?
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The consensus thesis allows pundits to settle into the comfortable role of brave prophet standing alone against the warmongering tide.
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A conversation with Ari Brostoff on David Horowitz’s trajectory from the New Left to conservative firebrand.
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MLB owners’ recent lockout was an effort to reverse the gains that players had won over decades of labor struggle. The owners failed.
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The contemporary right has inherited two seemingly contradictory impulses from the neoliberal era: anti-democratic politics and a libertarian personal ethic.
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Writer and advocate Gillian Branstetter joins the podcast to discuss the right’s war on trans people.
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Jamelle Bouie returns to the show to discuss the rise of rhetoric—not only but especially from the right—about a “second Civil War” in the United States.
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“Prison iPads” became a lifeline during the pandemic. They also became a new way to squeeze money out of the incarcerated and their families.
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In the 1940s and 1950s, conservative women activists mobilized against perceived threats to the family and the nation, laying the groundwork for family politics on the right for decades to come.
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The spread of COVID-19 in classrooms has revealed an infrastructure problem made worse by the way the United States finances improvements to school buildings.
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The return of the dynastic firm isn’t enough to explain the radicalization of the GOP.
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A guide to the conservative war on public education, from fights over desegregation to the critical race theory gag orders sweeping the nation today.
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Why did Joan Didion love Barry Goldwater but hate Ronald Reagan? Historian Sam Tanenhaus helps make sense of Didion’s conservatism.
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The growing militancy of the Republican right is less about an alliance of small business against big business than it is an insurrection of one form of capitalism against another: the private, unincorporated, and family-based versus the corporate, publicly traded, and shareholder-owned.
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