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While the politics concentrated on issues rather than identity approaches, it was noteworthy, if not necessarily important in terms of political direction, that women and people of color taken together outnumbered white guys. This was due in part to the heavy involvement of organized nurses, and to the conveners' efforts to ensure diversity. Anyone expecting a gaggle of young, arrogant Bernie Bros would be in for a surprise.

We have to build our organization and not just show up for rallies. DSA will have to “walk on two legs,” sustaining mass opposition to the Trump administration and its red-state equivalents while building social movements for economic, gender, and racial justice that can spur electoral challenges to pro-corporate Democratic incumbents.

Visitors will be invited to reflect on capitalism as if looking back at it from a world in which capitalism is dead.

“It’s time to ask millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share — the same share as the rest of us — to make those investments and generate equitable economic growth across Massachusetts.”

What is war? Jill McDonough’s alphabetical poem evolves from World War I’s soldier-oriented them vs. us to the hidden terrors of today’s warfare: CIA, NSA, Black Ops, ETC.

Distributing entangled photons over large distances could eventually be used to establish unhackable communications via what’s known as quantum cryptography.

“We want these staffers to feel as if they’re under siege from the rest of America, from a country that hates this bill.”

With the help of a new municipal law, a new advocacy group seeks to become an organizing model for low-wage workers.

There is an increasing sense of desperation in the White House, which is related directly to the fact that Mueller is looking into things that start with a dollar sign.

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