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Want Progressive U.S. Politics? Continue to Reform the Democratic Party Rules

There would be far more elected officials like Jamaal Bowman and AOC, if New York complied with the new Party reforms.

Larry Cohen

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Robert Reich: How Mitch McConnell’s Republicans Are Destroying America

While a lethal pandemic and economic crisis wreak havoc on working families, McConnell and the GOP are dead set on protecting business interests and enriching the wealthy.

Robert Reich

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The Search for a Covid Vaccine Is Not an Arms Race

Treating vaccine research like a national security secret endangers us all.

Sarah Lazare

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Workers Blow the Whistle on Mass Death

Private equity firms have imposed austerity measures on the hospitals they acquire. In a pandemic, that’s meant countless preventable deaths.

Moe Tkacik

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Defund the Police? Why Not?

We should not confuse public safety with investments in systems of punishment.

Joel Bleifuss

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All Undocumented Immigrants Deserve Citizenship—Not Just “Essential Workers”

The pandemic has made clear that we need to provide citizenship for all immigrants, and safe working conditions for all workers.

Shannon Gleeson and Sofya Aptekar

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There Is No Plan (For You)

Unemployment, evictions, business failure, a pandemic and health crises are all here at once. The federal government doesn't care.

Hamilton Nolan

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“Blue Lives Matter” Comes to Brooklyn, and Everyone Screams

In Bay Ridge, pro-police demonstrators were met with the righteous anger of Black Lives Matter.

Hamilton Nolan

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What’s Missing From the Biden-Bernie Task Force Plan? Medicare for All.

The recommendations are an improvement on Biden's previous healthcare plans, but a public option won't cut it. We need free, universal coverage.

Natalie Shure

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How the Trump Administration’s Small Business Protection Program Has Failed Communities of Color

The Covid-19 pandemic has devastated businesses run by people of color. The Trump administration's Small Business Administration isn’t helping.

Miranda Litwak

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My University Plans to Reopen This Summer, Based on Advice From McKinsey. That’s Terrifying.

McKinsey & Company is pushing a military-style, corporate response to the Covid-19 crisis in public higher education. What we need is an anti-racist approach.

Jeffrey Helgeson

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The Left’s Resurgence Is For Real

Jamaal Bowman and other progressive and democratic socialist challengers had a very good night, while Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cruised to victory—proving that the left wing is a force to be reckoned with.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

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Derek Chauvin and Amy Cooper Are One and The Same

Bogus allegations waged by white women are just as dangerous as police brutality—and come from the same callous privilege.

Chandra Thomas Whitfield

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In U.S. Counties Where Lynchings Were Prevalent, Police Are More Likely to Shoot Black People

Areas with higher numbers of lynchings from 1877 to 1950 have more officer-involved shootings of Black Americans today.

Jhacova Williams and Carl Romer

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The Long List of Names That Came Before Breonna Taylor and George Floyd

Samuel Williams. Tyisha Miller. Amadou Diallo. Eric Garner. I've reported their names for decades. This time feels different.

Salim Muwakkil

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The Thing About Police Unions

Adeshina Emmanuel

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Want to Defeat Trump Without Campaigning for Biden? Here’s How.

Socialists and other Bernie Sanders supporters can play a critical role in defeating right-wing populism while building a left-wing alternative for the long term—by going down-ballot.

David Duhalde

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Our Biden Problem

Movements face a challenge: how to oust Trump while still combatting Biden's neoliberalism.

Barbara Ransby

LaborViewpoint

The Central Issue Is Police Repression, Not Police Unions

Before rushing to expel police unions, labor needs a larger reckoning with law enforcement's role in a capitalist-colonialist state.

Bill Fletcher, Jr.

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“We Actually Cannot Reform This Department”: A Minneapolis Councilor on the Need to Disband Police

In an interview, Minneapolis Council Member Steve Fletcher explains why his city is moving to dismantle its police department—and what lessons other cities can take.

Michael Arria

LaborViewpoint

I’m Proud That My Union Just Urged the AFL-CIO to Kick Out Police Unions

Hamilton Nolan

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In Big Cities, It’s Democrats Who Have Poured Money Into Policing

Democratic mayors of Los Angeles, New York and Minneapolis have treated bloated police budgets as sacrosanct.

Sonali Kolhatkar / Independent Media Institute

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Don’t Shame Protesters and Park-Goers Over Covid-19 Spreading—Shame Corporations and the State

While demonstrators have been blamed for potentially endangering the public, the real danger lies elsewhere.

Natalie Shure

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Trump’s Answer to Structural Racism? Police State Fascism.

With protests against police violence spreading like wildfire, Trump is responding with authoritarianism—and an ever more violent crackdown.

Christopher D. Cook