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We’re in an affordability crisis because workers aren’t being paid at the same levels they earned in the past. Here are 7 reforms to create a broadly shared prosperity and an affordable future.

Pragmatism is required to build a social democratic New York. The key to radical reform, New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani clearly understands, is to be pragmatic as all hell.

A proposed 2026 ballot measure would limit the powers that the state grants in its corporate charters.

A proposed 2026 California ballot measure would tax billionaires’ fortunes to fund imperiled health access for 15 million state Medicaid recipients.

Realists (Mamdani, AOC) seek immersion in mass politics; fundamentalists oppose it.

A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin’s Freedom Budget is the key to understanding the appeal of the Democratic nominee for NYC mayor. The class-based universalistic politics of the socialists of the 60s and ’70s hold important lessons for today.

The Democratic rank and file is much more aligned with Bernie, AOC, and Zohran than it is with Chuck and Hakeem.

As ICE agents run amok, Latino cities and communities have been compelled to cancel their celebrations.

It’s not so much about ‘abundance’ as it is about how to reconnect with a justifiably angry working class.

Building a progressive populist movement requires Democrats to talk about Wall Street, which most are reluctant to do. If they’re going to benefit from the public’s anti-oligarch turn, however, they’re going to have Bernie-fy themselves.