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Nina Turner’s Loss Holds Lessons for Future Left Candidates

A flood of dark money and establishment opposition helped sink Turner’s campaign—but progressive challengers can still win if they learn from the defeat while running on a redistributive platform.

Natalie Shure

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Democrats Will Never Stop Triangulating Against Justice

Running against "defund the police" is both cowardly and wrong. Democratic leaders find that irresistible.

Hamilton Nolan

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Dear Congress: Say No to Water Privatization in the Infrastructure Bill

Water costs have soared in recent years as federal funding for water infrastructure has shrunk. Privatization is the last thing we need.

Rural America In These Times

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An Old Idea for a Guaranteed Income Is Back in Style

A new proposal for a negative income tax could eliminate poverty in the United States.

Max B. Sawicky

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We Need Radical Economic Change—Not Biden's Corporate Capitalism

Stimulus packages are not enough. Only practices of deep democracy and shared ownership can end our cycle of economic disaster.

Stacey Sutton

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We Don't Have Time for Climate Symbolism

As we hurtle towards climate chaos, Democratic leaders remain all talk and no action on serious climate policy.

Mark Schlosberg

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We Are Zoomers and We Want the PRO Act

Gen Z and Millennials are facing a bleak economic future. The answer is to massively expand union membership and democratize workplaces.

James Coleman and Nick Gonzalez

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The For the People Act Isn’t Dead

Don’t believe the pundits—there’s a growing grassroots movement to save American democracy and pass sweeping voting rights reform.

Mahnoor Imran and Adam Eichen

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The Future of the Movement for Black Lives

Urban rebellions blossomed into mass mobilization upon George Floyd's death. Now what?

M Adams

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Voter Suppression Is White Supremacy. It Must Be Stopped.

In recent years, down-ballot wins across the country have legalized marijuana, overturned Jim Crow-era election law, and hiked minimum wages. The GOP’s campaign to suppress the Black vote threatens wins like these.

Kayla Reed

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Introducing the Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Lessons on building collective power.

Barbara Ransby, Chinyere Tutashinda, Karissa Lewis, M Adams and Shanelle Matthews

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How the Potency of Social Wages Can Beat Back Neoliberalism

At the core of President Biden’s American Families Plan is an understanding that workers are paid too little in market wages and that government has a responsibility to change that.

Jack Metzgar

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We Have a Jobs Crisis and an Environmental Crisis. The Answer to Both Is a Civilian Climate Corps.

From Bernie Sanders and AOC to the Sunrise Movement, progressives are working to establish an updated version of a New Deal program to meet the challenges of economic and climate upheaval. Its time has come.

Jeremy Mohler

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Landlords Are Going to Take Away All Your Wage Gains

This is what happens when you treat housing as just another market.

Hamilton Nolan

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U.S. Media Outlets Are Still Banging the Drums for the Afghanistan War

Major press outlets are trying to goad Biden into staying in Afghanistan.

Sarah Lazare

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There Are No Mass Migrations Without U.S. Meddling and Militarism

Despite its pledges to aid Central America, the Biden administration continues to deny the United States' role in destabilizing the region.

Azadeh Shahshahani and Rhonda Ramiro

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The Only Way to Stop the GOP’s Democracy Doom Loop

Republicans are on a warpath against voting rights. Democrats alone won’t block them—we need mass grassroots resistance.

Eli Day

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What Can the Biden Admin Do to Make Our Food System More Resilient? Make it More Local.

Our food supply chains are vulnerable because they’re highly concentrated, corporatized and unaccountable to the public.

Ben Lilliston

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The GOP's Assault on Democracy Demands a Third Reconstruction

Voter suppression threatens the American experiment as we know it. History tells us that hope rests on our ability to mobilize the masses.

Rev. Liz Theoharis

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Democrats Are Wasting Precious Time with a Measly "Bipartisan" Infrastructure Deal

The bipartisan plan is a drop in the bucket. Democrats need to forget Republicans and pass a bold package that makes massive public investments.

Max B. Sawicky

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How To Murder a Good Idea With Conventional Wisdom

"Defund the police" is a completely rational policy prescription. Political pundits don't care.

Hamilton Nolan

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Firefighters Are Worth More than $13.45/Hour

Federal wildland firefighters are leaving the workforce because the risks of the job outweigh the poor pay. It couldn't happen at a worse time.

Jonathon Golden

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Ilhan Omar's Only Offense Is Telling the Truth About the United States and Israel

Republicans and Democrats are once again targeting the Minnesota congresswoman for acknowledging the crimes of imperialism and occupation.

Hadas Thier

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RIP Jack Terricloth (1970-2021) of the World/Inferno Friendship Society

Raise a glass to toast the life and legacy of an anti-capitalist, cabaret punk iconoclast.

A.M. Gittlitz