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A Primary Is a Competition. Bernie Should Play To Win.

There's no need to hedge our bets.

Carl Beijer

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Why Bernie Can’t Be Organizer-In-Chief

Movements, not candidates, should drive progressive agendas.

Brian Tokar

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Warren’s an Ally. We Need a Leader.

Elizabeth Warren isn’t the president we need in this moment.

Rachel Gilmer

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Imagine Elizabeth Warren as President. Now Imagine Bernie Sanders.

We asked their supporters to really think through what a progressive president could—and couldn't—do.

Jessica Stites

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The Decade That Put Capitalism On Trial

How the 2008 financial crisis kicked off a new age of dissent

Astra Taylor

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Fox News, Trump’s Ministry of Propaganda

For nearly a quarter of American adults, Fox News is their only cable news source. It tells them what Trump wants them to hear.

Joel Bleifuss

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What the U.S. Left Can Learn From the Labour Party’s Epic Loss

Liberal pundits say the lesson is that Democrats shouldn’t move left. They’re wrong.

David Adler

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Yes, Trump’s Impeachment Is a Partisan Pursuit—Just As It Should Be

What Trump's defenders miss: impeachment only works when it's partisan.

Thomas Geoghegan

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Even in Bankruptcy, Coal Companies Can’t Stop Selling Out Workers

The industry sees its employees like it sees the Earth: Just another resource to exploit.

Sarah Lazare

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Centrists Don’t Want “Party Unity”—They Want to Defend the Wealthy

Attacks by moderate Democrats on Bernie Sanders are really about defending corporate power and structural inequality.

Christopher D. Cook

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Trump Has Quietly Implemented a Far-Right Takeover of the Courts That Will Last Generations

Imperiling progressive change "for as long as we live," 1 in 5 federal judges is now a Trump appointee.

Jake Johnson

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Reagan Lives On in Biden

For 40 years, Biden has pushed to cut federal spending. In a recession, don't expect him to prime the pump.

Branko Marcetic

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The Takeaway From the Impeachment Hearings: Our Constitution Has Failed

To guard against another authoritarian president we can’t impeach, we need to reform our constitution.

Chris Edelson

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Winning Medicare for All Will Require Taking On Powerful Interests. Here’s How We Overcame One.

The American Medical Association's decision to leave an industry-backed, anti-single payer group didn't happen on its own. It was the result of dedicated organizing to make healthcare a human right.

Connie Huynh

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Want More Proof of Corporate Media’s Anti-Bernie Bias? Look at MSNBC’s Democratic Debate.

During the debate and in the spin room, Sanders was treated more like an outsider than a front runner. It’s part of a broader anti-Bernie slant in the “liberal” network’s coverage.

Branko Marcetic

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Why “High Hopes” Is the Perfect Dance Song for the Buttigieg Campaign

It’s a meritocratic fantasy.

Dayton Martindale

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With Net Neutrality Axed, Local Governments Are Racing To Save the Open Internet

Cities and states are leading the way in defending the internet from corporate control.

Victor Pickard and David Elliot Berman

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Centrist Pundits Assume Voters Agree with Them. Polling Tells a Different Story.

Jonathan Chait and Rahm Emanuel get "electability" totally wrong.

Jonathan Cohn

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Trashing Teachers and Red-Baiting: How a Republican Governor Lost in Kentucky

Democrat Andy Beshear defeated Republican Gov. Matt Bevin in deep-red Kentucky. The lesson? Attacking teachers and socialism won’t protect the GOP.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

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Want To Build the Labor Movement? Get a Job at a Union Workplace.

The case for the rank-and-file strategy.

Laura Gabby

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90% of Workers Aren’t in a Union. Labor’s Future Depends on Them.

The labor movement needs more organic leaders, not a militant minority.

Andrew Dobbyn

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Labor Needs To Embrace Social Justice Unionism

A successful rank-and-file strategy must look beyond the workplace.

Bill Fletcher, Jr.

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How Ranked Choice Voting Could Make the 2020 Election More Democratic

The landmark voting reform is quickly spreading across the country—and could have a major impact on contests in 2020.

Adam Eichen

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The Postal Service Is the Most Popular Federal Agency in America. Let’s Massively Expand It.

Americans love the postal service. From banking to combating climate change, the public agency could be used to provide so much more.

Jeremy Mohler