With a black mayor at the helm once again, it remains to be seen whether a Harold Washington-style African-American and Latino coalition can emerge to fight for socioeconomic and political parity with whites in Chicago.
Methodist melee; Smearing Omar; Jewish jihad; Hating AOC; Abrams on idpol; Poverty and politics; Chait meets Sunkara
Nobody in America should be homeless. Nobody in Chicago should be homeless. So, listen up, mister Mayor, and all you Mayor wannabes: What we need now is a homes guarantee: a home for everyone who needs one.
The cost of having children in the U.S. has climbed exponentially since the 1960s.
Tucker Carlson Totally Loses It in Unaired Interview, Michael Franti & Spearhead | The Flower (feat. Victoria Canal), Documentary | Knock Down The House, Brexit III, Angela Davis Returns to Birmingham
Knock Down the House follows four women political candidates – a young bartender in the Bronx, a coal miner’s daughter in West Virginia, a grieving mother in Nevada and a registered nurse in Missouri – during the 2018 mid-term elections. The film was voted the Festival Favorite Award from among 121 films at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.
Inside an effort to influence American elections, starting with one small-town race.
In the upcoming season of presidential politics, the nuclear question belongs at the top of every candidate’s agenda. It belongs at the center of every forum and at the heart of every voter’s decision.
The rest of us have no obligation to indulge centrist delusions.
Absent a bold, well-articulated working-class program, labor’s agenda risks being crushed by the Democratic Party’s traditional pro-corporate and discredited neo-liberal ideology.
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