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Reader Comments: Democratic Socialists Surge in Mayoral Races; Brad Lander: Why We Won; Orange Vandal of Reflecting Pool; Israel's New Party; American Family at Breaking Point; Eric Blanc modifies criticism of DSA and Working Families Party; Cartoons

The Anti-Defamation League Was Rotten From the Start

Eleanor J. Bader The Progressive
A new history of the 113-year-old advocacy group highlights its lifelong history of Zionist antagonism toward the left. Early on there was an antagonism by German Jewish leaders already here to the mass of Jewish immigrants newly arriving

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Democrats Are Badly Failing To Hold Trump Accountable Over Iran

Aída Chávez The Nation
Party leaders have been doing everything in their power to avoid confronting the US-Israeli war in any meaningful way. Trump’s war is deeply unpopular. He is losing it badly. Its continuation would be a catastrophe. Democrats must go all in.

Special-Interest Super PACs Underperform in Illinois

Emma Janssen The American Prospect
Only two of four AIPAC-backed Democratic House candidates won, despite tens of millions in spending. An absurd $92 million was spent on four open-seat House races and an open Senate race, a corruption of democracy that is relatively unprecedented
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