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ViewpointElection 2024
The Path for Socialism Is Focus
The Left should reject identity politics in favor of an oppositional economic platform and credible, progressive policy solutions.
Bhaskar Sunkara
ViewpointElection 2024
Scapegoats and Solidarity
Scapegoat politics is a tempting—but harmful—distraction from the real work of solidarity-building.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
ViewpointElection 2024
Don’t Retreat, the Ballot Box Belongs to Working People
Elections aren't the only tool that the working class can use to build power. But as the Right continues to dismantle movement gains, we must use every tool available to us.
Maurice Mitchell
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After Failed Coup, South Korea's President Could Be Impeached Tomorrow
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law earlier this week. In response, a mass movement of South Koreans took to the streets to call for his resignation.
Cathi Choi
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How to Beat the “King” of Debt at His Own Game
The Trump Administration will drive everyday Americans dramatically deeper in debt. But we can fight back.
Jason Wozniak
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3 Ways Workers’ Rights Are on the Chopping Block Under President Trump
Judging by the first Trump administration, workers and unions are set to face new attacks and a rollback of rights.
Samantha Sanders
ViewpointElection 2024
Out of the Ashes
Democratic failure gave rise to the second round of Trumpism. Collective action is the way out.
Miles Kampf-Lassin
ViewpointElection 2024
The Power of Dumb
In the Second Trump Era, don't expect reality to be realistic.
Hamilton Nolan
ViewpointElection 2024
Don't Despair, Organize
Our job on the left is to translate outrage over Trump's agenda into action toward a truly transformational vision.
Mark Engler and Paul Engler
ViewpointElection 2024
What’s The Deal With The Latine Vote?
The diverse Latine experience, shaped by factors like immigration status, race and class, is too often oversimplified—both by outsiders and within our own communities.
Briana L. Ureña-Ravelo
ViewpointElection 2024
What Lesson Should the Dems Take From the 2024 Election? Return to the Working Class
The party should use this inflection point to shift ground—from being the party of well-off college graduates, big corporations, and vacuous “centrism”—to an anti-establishment party ready to shake up the system on behalf of the vast majority of Americans.
Robert Reich
ViewpointElection 2024
Trump's Army of Social Vigilantes Are Coming for Payback
For four years, disciples of MAGA have been waiting for this moment, stewing on the need for social and political retribution. The wait is over—and we need to be ready.
Maximillian Alvarez
ViewpointElection 2024
The Rape Culture Election
Across the Right, one refrain resounds: “Your body, my choice.”
Talia Lavin
ViewpointElection 2024
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.
Saqib Bhatti
ViewpointElection 2024
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.
Adam Johnson
LaborViewpointElection 2024
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
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
ViewpointElection 2024
Democrats Chose to Back a Genocide and Turn Right Over Defeating Trump
By refusing to budge on Palestine, Harris and the Democrats surrendered their moral advantage, forcing them to track right and alienate their base.
Adam Johnson
ViewpointElection 2024
Now We Will Get What We Asked For
America made its choice: Donald Trump.
Hamilton Nolan
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We Resigned Over U.S. Support for Genocide—But Are Voting for Harris
"We are not defending the two-party system whose shortcomings are blindingly clear—but in this election, if Kamala Harris loses, then Donald Trump wins."
Lily Greenberg Call and Harrison Mann
ViewpointElection 2024
Trump and Musk Want the U.S. to Become a Corporatocracy
The two dangerous demagogues are openly colluding with one another to seize political power so they can milk taxpayers and dismantle government regulations that protect the public.
Sonali Kolhatkar
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On Losing a Loved One to Alzheimer's—and Trumpism
I saw in my dying grandfather Trump’s ideal follower—and right-wing media’s ideal viewer.
Maximillian Alvarez
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It's Not Too Late for Kamala Harris to Earn Votes Like Mine
Harris can win thousands of votes across the country, including in key swing states, by calling for an arms embargo.
Saqib Bhatti
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The Ways We Show Up After November 5
My sights are set on lifting up art that pushes for a world with disability justice and abolition and queer liberation, a future in which Palestine and Sudan and the Congo are free.
Sherell Barbee
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