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Half a century ago, feminists won Roe v. Wade with mass demonstrations and a sweeping national vision. A veteran of that movement argues that today’s fight requires the same strategy.

A system that covers the consequences of a disease while refusing to cover its treatment is just moving costs downstream.

If passed, new legislation backed by DoorDash would strip DC of the ability to change its own tax code.

Corporate media attached the label “far left” to the name Antifa, as though being anti-fascist is somehow now beyond the pale. Doing that, they legitimized government efforts to take the First Amendment activities, and make them suspect.

Why did thousands seek out this socialist organization; why did they join it; what did they accomplish; what movements did they build; what mistakes did they make; what might today’s generation of activists and socialists learn from them?

Building a mass left in the United States is a slow and bruising process, and there is no single tipping point at which the party and its voters suddenly become committed leftwing partisans.

Twain called the Paige machine “a cunning devil, knowing more than any man that ever lived” and claimed it would make “telephones, locomotives,” even “Babbage calculators” seem like “mere toys, simplicities!”

Inequality is making a dramatic comeback. How do we organize the economy and our society to prevent the forms of capture of the political process, in particular, that are associated with extreme wealth?

Among the priorities ahead, we need to prepare for a future presidential administration that is genuinely interested in historical integrity, democratic modes of history, and our nation’s historical record.

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