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Thoughts on a Bernie Sanders Run

Bill Fletcher, Jr. The Progressive
... if the candidate has a real mass base, is building a broad progressive front around a clear, transformational program, and sees the candidacy as one step in a multitiered process, then it might be worth going for it.

Remember a President for Free Labor

Mark Lause Labor Online (Labor and Working-Class History Association)
During the Civil War, strikers and other workers with grievances found a sympathetic ear in the White House and a willingness to use what Lincoln saw as the limited power of his office to allow for a fair contest in disputes between labor and management...

The Economics of Love and Loneliness

Sam Pizzigati Too Much
Why aren't Cupid's arrows hitting their lovelorn targets the way they once did? New research points to our growing economic divide.

The GOP’s Health Crisis

Eugene Robinson Washington Post
Wednesday’s status report on the health-insurance reforms was by far the best news for Democrats and the Obama administration since the program’s incompetent launch. January was the first month when new enrollments surpassed expectations, as the balky HealthCare.gov Web site began functioning more or less as intended.