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Young Voters Will Transform Even the Reddest States

Ed Kilgore New York Magazine
There’s a new demographic wave — a tsunami, really — forming in the not-so-distant future that could finally break the recent pattern of partisan gridlock. The youth cohorts growing up right now are just dramatically different from their predecessors

Fordham Graduate Students Walk Out of Teaching To Demand a Better Contract

Jonathan Custodio THE CITY
More than 300 graduate student workers at Fordham University’s Arts and Sciences school began a three-day walkout this Monday, resulting in hundreds of canceled classes amid growing frustration with the state of their union contract negotiations with the university.

Losing by Not Winning

Shehryar Fazli Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviewer Fazli examines this new History of the Democratic Party, written by a former editor of Dissent magazine.

The Harry Belafonte Speech That Changed My Life

Charles M. Blow The New York Times
The reality seized me that I had been playing much too small as a writer, covering and commenting on society and its systems rather than truly challenging them.