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The Rape Culture Election
Across the Right, one refrain resounds: “Your body, my choice.”
Talia Lavin
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How Biden, Harris and the Democrats Abandoned the Working Class
Working-class voters didn’t unite behind a Democratic Party that failed to address economic pain—and Trump exploited those grievances to win back the presidency.
Jeff Schuhrke
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The Election Is Over and the Bombs Are Still Dropping. We Have to Stop Them.
We must recommit to the fight for an arms embargo.
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Democratic Elites Blame Everyone But Themselves for Historic Collapse
On the blame list: transgender people, “economic headwinds,” ontologically racist voters—anyone but the powerful people tasked with defeating Trump.
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Labor Now Needs to Be an Anti-Fascist Movement
MAGA forces have begun what they believe to be their final offensive against everything on the Left. One way to fight back is for organized labor to become a conscious anti-fascist movement
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Liberalism Will Cost Us the Earth
Trump’s recoronation is another symptom of centrism’s global bankruptcy.
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Poetry: Another Democracy is America's Experiment and I am Tired of History's Repetition
America, when you come for me, I’m coming with sound in the streets, with a murder of mothers murking their way through the mud.
Golden
Election 2024
After Trump Win, Bernie Sanders Blames Democrats for Abandoning Working People
"It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working-class people would find that the working class has abandoned them," Sanders said.
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