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Cynthia Nixon’s Plan to Stem Mass Incarceration Has a Uniquely Feminist Provision
The candidate has a plank to help survivors of domestic violence who are incarcerated for defending themselves.
Rachel Johnson
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The $717 Billion Defense Bill That Just Breezed Through the Senate Should Be a National Scandal
Democrats and Republicans rubber-stamped a severely bloated war budget.
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What You Need To Know About Democratic Socialism
Democratic socialism is having a moment. From electing open socialists to ending capitalism, here’s what the movement is all about.
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With Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez Backing Him, Abdul El-Sayed May Be on the Verge of a Stunning Upset
Riding a wave of left energy, gubernatorial candidate El-Sayed could follow the lead of Sanders in 2016 and score a shocking primary win in Michigan.
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The Media Is Giving Facebook a Free Pass to Shut Down Activists Over Russia Fears
An anti-fascist coalition says its event page was unfairly targeted in the tech giant's latest crackdown.
Sarah Lazare and Julianne Tveten
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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.
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The Long History of America’s Violent Intervention in Afghanistan
The people of Afghanistan are paying a horrible price for the protracted U.S. occupation.
Gregory Shupak
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On Michael Harrington’s Democratic Socialism
Maurice Isserman's biography of Harrington depicts a fierce lifelong advocate for democratic socialism who butted heads with the New Left but never wavered in his commitment to economic justice.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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Michael Harrington, an American Socialist
DSA founder Michael Harrington served as a moral tribune for a broad community by virtue of the democratic and egalitarian content of his socialist message, and by his ceaseless commitment to spreading it.
Harold Meyerson
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Socialists Practice Internal Democracy, Endorse Cynthia Nixon—And the Media Is Riveted
Mainstream outlets can't stop writing about how the NYC DSA’s endorsement of Cynthia Nixon was a model of democracy in action, unlike the Democratic Party.
Kate Aronoff
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“Democratic Socialism Will Prevail”: An Interview with Ron Dellums in 1976
Dellums, a democratic socialist member of the House of Representatives, was interviewed in the first issue of In These Times, saying “if democracy means anything, it should mean a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people.”
John Judis
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Hey Democrats: Take a Hint from Labour and Ocasio-Cortez and Try Moving Left
Democrats can't win by mimicking left rhetoric—it's going to take an actual left platform.
Tobi Thomas
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Trump’s Turn to Electronic Monitoring Isn’t a Humane Solution
ICE's use of electronic monitoring devices poses risks to immigrants released from detention.
Zachary Kligler
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Israel’s New Nation-State Law Enshrines Apartheid
The formal embrace of ethnic cleansing strengthens Israel's right wing--and portends an escalation of violence against Palestinians.
Alex Kane
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The Killing of Harith Augustus Shows How Police Violence and Capitalism Are Inextricably Linked
On Chicago police, economic violence and the Black resistance movement.
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The Police Will Keep Killing Us Until We Stop Criminalizing Blackness and Poverty
The murder of Harith “Snoop” Augustus by Chicago police is the latest reminder that we must hold our elected officials accountable for upholding a system that devalues Black life.
Katelyn Johnson
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Nonunion Workers Can Save Unions. We Just Need to Reimagine How We Collect Dues.
The case for voluntary payroll deductions to donate to unions.
Shaun Richman
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Will Dems Fight the Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh? Organizers Are Pushing Chuck Schumer To Act.
A conversation with an organizer from Indivisible.
Sarah Jaffe
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Left Candidates Have to Do Better on Palestine
Ocasio-Cortez missed an opportunity to push a left position on Israel. But it's not too late to change that.
Corey Robin
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It’s Time for Unions To Let Go of Exclusive Representation
Janus calls for a radical rethinking of labor law.
James Gray Pope, Ed Bruno, and Peter Kellman
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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
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Given What the U.S. Has Done to the World, It Should Be Letting All Refugees In
The U.S. is slamming the door on people forcibly displaced by American interventions.
Khury Peterson-Smith
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How To End the Tyranny of the Nonunion Workplace
To overcome right to work, we need rights at work.
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
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Runaway Empire: Last Year, U.S. Commandos Were Deployed to 75% of World’s Countries
American Special Operations Forces are expanding globally.
Nick Turse
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