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Kamala Harris Says “We’re Not Going Back.” But What’s Her Plan Forward?

In last night’s presidential debate, Harris outperformed Trump. Yet she was light on policy specifics and failed to articulate how her agenda would mark a clean break from the past.

Branko Marcetic

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An Untold History of Joe Biden's Support for Israel

Documents reviewed in Delaware and New York give insight into how, starting early in Biden's political career, his positions appear to have significantly changed as his relationships strengthened with a growing pro-Israel lobby.

Branko Marcetic

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Jamaal Bowman’s Loss Does Not Mean That AIPAC Is Winning

The Squad may have lost a key member, but AIPAC has had to drastically narrow its ambitions, targeting the most vulnerable of Israel critics in order to inflate its strength.

Branko Marcetic

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The Corporate Power Brokers Behind AIPAC’s War on the Squad

An In These Times investigation reveals the individuals behind AIPAC's election war chest: nearly 60% are CEOs and other top executives at the country's largest corporations.

Branko Marcetic

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SVB's Bailout Signals a Financial System Still Rotten to the Core

The spectacular collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was caused by corruption, financial recklessness and poor decision-making. How much longer will we put up with this?

Branko Marcetic

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The Left Has a Lot to Celebrate After the Surprising Midterm Results

After the midterm elections, more left-wing insurgents are going to the House, Bernie Sanders has two strong allies in the Senate and progressive ballot measures passed everywhere.

Branko Marcetic

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Don’t Look Now But Progressives Are About to Expand Their Ranks in Congress

A lot is uncertain about the midterms, but there's one thing we do know—the House will have the largest left cohort in decades.

Branko Marcetic

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The Remarkable and Entirely Underappreciated Achievements of the EPA

The Supreme Court is gutting an agency that has a measurable history of saving lives.

Branko Marcetic

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How January 6 Is Being Used to Crush Dissent on the Left

Rather than grapple with the political forces behind the Capitol siege, lawmakers have instead pushed a spate of anti-protest laws across the country.

Branko Marcetic

The Long, Troubling Career of Buffalo's Byron Brown

The career trajectory of Byron Brown is familiar to U.S. cities: a young reformer who took on the city's corrupt establishment—and who soon embodied the very establishment he'd run against.

Branko Marcetic

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Republicans Are Using the Capitol Riot as a Trojan Horse to Target the Left

Since January 6, GOP lawmakers across the country have introduced a slew of anti-protest bills.

Branko Marcetic

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We Should Cause Trouble, Not Make Nice With Biden

History suggests that it’s not making friends, but making the administration’s life difficult, that gets results for the Left.

Branko Marcetic

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How Democrats Won and Lost

And what the surprising results mean for the Left.

Maurice Mitchell, Varshini Prakash, George Goehl, Andrea Plaid, Kristian Hernandez and Branko Marcetic

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Instead of Repeating the Obama Administration, Biden Must Do Better. Here's How.

A successful Biden presidency will require immediately making working people's lives better—and this is where to start.

Branko Marcetic

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The Democratic Platform Fight Shows It’s Still Obama’s Party

Bernie Sanders supporters have pushed for progressive priorities in the platform, but the Barack Obama wing of the Democratic establishment is still in the driver’s seat.

Branko Marcetic

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The People Who Will Draft the Democratic Platform Have a Conflict of Interest Problem

Next up after the Biden-Sanders task forces? The Democratic platform drafting committee—and progressives have their work cut out for them.

Branko Marcetic

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What’s Joe Biden’s Response to Coronavirus? Even He Doesn’t Seem Sure.

Biden's coronavirus response plan doesn't just fall short—it also doesn't match what he's been telling the public.

Branko Marcetic

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Jeff Bezos Embodies the Cruel Autocracy of Neoliberal Capitalism

Amazon CEO and richest-man-in-the-world Jeff Bezos wants you to work as much as he does—for one millionth of the pay

Branko Marcetic

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How Bernie Beat Polling and a Smear Campaign To Win His First National Office

Sanders faced personal attacks and was down 10 points against a moderate Republican. He won.

Branko Marcetic

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Superdelegates Were Designed To Stop a Candidate Like Bernie

Of course the establishment candidates approve of superdelegates—these unelected electors were created precisely to protect the party elite.

Branko Marcetic

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Amy Klobuchar Says She Wants to Protect Obamacare—But Has Worked to Undermine It

Klobuchar has sold herself as a pragmatist who will expand healthcare while being “fiscally responsible.” But her record is one of siding with big business.

Branko Marcetic

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In His Lies, Joe Biden Is Sounding a Lot Like Trump

While Joe Biden has promised a break from Trumpism, when it comes to his record, the former vice president has shown an utter disregard for the truth.

Branko Marcetic

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Buttigieg Is Shocked, Shocked at McKinsey’s Transgressions. But It Was Notorious When He Joined It.

McKinsey was embroiled in a nationwide scandal over helping insurance companies squeeze customers.

Branko Marcetic

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Reagan Lives On in Biden

For 40 years, Biden has pushed to cut federal spending. In a recession, don't expect him to prime the pump.

Branko Marcetic

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How the Leader of the OAS Became a Right-Wing Hawk—And Paved the Way for Bolivia’s Coup

The Organization of American States is not a neutral arbiter. Just looks at its secretary general, Luis Almagro.

Branko Marcetic

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Want More Proof of Corporate Media’s Anti-Bernie Bias? Look at MSNBC’s Democratic Debate.

During the debate and in the spin room, Sanders was treated more like an outsider than a front runner. It’s part of a broader anti-Bernie slant in the “liberal” network’s coverage.

Branko Marcetic

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MSNBC Is the Most Influential Network Among Liberals—And It’s Ignoring Bernie Sanders

When the network’s primetime pundits do cover Sanders, they cover him more negatively than they do Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden.

Branko Marcetic

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Meet the Hawkish Liberal Think Tank Powering the Kamala Harris Campaign

The Center for a New American Security has long pushed Democrats to embrace war and militarism—and it's poised to play an influential role in a future Democratic administration.

Branko Marcetic

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Joe Biden Lied His Face Off About the Iraq War

Our score for Biden’s debate performance: 8 million pinocchios.

Branko Marcetic

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Elizabeth Warren Is Making a Mistake By Trying to Win Over Democratic Party Elites

If Warren wants to enact “big, structural change,” working within the Democratic Party establishment is a poor strategy.

Branko Marcetic

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Kamala Harris Pledged To Halt Fracking. Her Foreign Policy Advisor Wants The Opposite.

If ‘personnel is policy,’ then the choice of Michèle Flournoy suggests a President Harris would expand oil and natural gas extraction.

Branko Marcetic

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Joe Biden and the Disastrous History of Bipartisanship

Biden says he wants to bring the parties together. But for 50 years, that's meant the Right winning every time.

Branko Marcetic

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Corporate Democrats Have Been in the Driver’s Seat for 30 Years. Not Anymore.

In Tuesday’s debate, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren obliterated the corporate Democratic Party consensus. It’s about damn time.

Branko Marcetic

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Joe Biden Didn’t Just Vote for the Iraq Invasion—He Helped Lead the March to War

Biden may run from it today, but he played a critical role in ensuring America’s involvement in the most disastrous foreign policy venture of the 21st century. Here’s how.

Branko Marcetic

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Julián Castro’s Troubling Record in San Antonio

While Castro may now boast of his progressive bona fides, his record shows a history of embracing austerity and neoliberal reforms.

Branko Marcetic

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Biden and the Obama Admin Are Finally Getting the Reckoning They Deserve

From immigration to tax deals, Thursday night’s debate saw the troubling records of both Biden and the Obama administration put on trial. It’s long overdue.

Branko Marcetic

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The DNC’s New Finance Chair Embodies Everything the Left Hates About the Democratic Establishment

It’s not just his past criticisms of Bernie Sanders: Chris Korge has a long history of undermining the party’s progressive wing.

Branko Marcetic

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Young Democrats Are Furious Over the DCCC’s Blacklist Punishing Insurgents

At a time of rising energy on the Democrats' left flank, the DCCC is giving a crash course in how to alienate young progressives.

Branko Marcetic

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Joe Biden Is Railing Against Hedge Fund Managers, But He Has a Long History of Courting Them

Biden may cast himself as the champion of working people, but he's seeking support from the same financial elite that he chides on the 2020 campaign trail.

Branko Marcetic

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Biden Says He’s the Workers’ Candidate, But He Has Worked To Cut Medicare and Social Security

The universal retirement programs are Biden’s go-to sacrificial lambs.

Branko Marcetic

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These 2020 Candidates Are the Darlings of Wall Street. The Numbers Are Proof.

Cory Booker, Kamala Harris and Kirsten Gillibrand are among the top beneficiaries of Wall Street money, despite their rhetoric about regulating the banking industry.

Branko Marcetic

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Individuals Working for Wall Street, Private Equity and Big Pharma Love to Donate to Cory Booker

Booker has sworn off corporate PAC contributions, but his biggest donors work in fields whose interests run counter to progressive priorities.

Branko Marcetic

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The Media Must Face Up to Its Role in Inflaming a Frenzy Over Russiagate

By claiming Trump was colluding with Putin, media outlets distracted from the president’s overt crimes while escalating tensions with Russia. They should own up to their failures.

Branko Marcetic

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Why Is Dianne Feinstein So Opposed to the Green New Deal? Look at Her Family Finances.

Sen. Feinstein has direct financial interests in the same fossil fuel companies that the Green New Deal threatens.

Branko Marcetic

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Trump’s Space Force Is No Joke

China, Russia, and the U.S. are already militarizing space. Here’s why that’s dangerous.

Branko Marcetic

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Why the DNC’s Superdelegate Reforms Were a Major Victory for the Sanders Wing

From stripping power from superdelegates to enforcing financial oversight, backers of Bernie Sanders scored a number of huge wins at the DNC summer meeting. And they could have a major impact in 2020.

Branko Marcetic

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Jonathan Chait Is the Last Person We Should Listen To When It Comes to Trump and Russia

Chait says Russiagate skeptics are foolish. Here's why he's completely wrong.

Branko Marcetic

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What the Liberal Establishment Gets Wrong About the Trump-Putin Summit

Charges of treason and other reactionary rhetoric build support for a more confrontational—and dangerous—stance towards Russia.

Branko Marcetic