Dispatches From the Culture Wars - January 29, 2019
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- Anti-Assimilation Claims Haunt Latinos, Asians
- It Started As a Viral Tweet
- Campaign Workers Demand Minimum Wage, Progressive Culture From 2020 Dems
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Crusher of Sacred Cows
- The Unfinished Business of Bernie Sanders
- Glad the Shutdown’s Over? Thank Workers, Not Just Nancy Pelosi
Anti-Assimilation Claims Haunt Latinos, Asians
By Russell Contreras
January 28, 2019
Associated Press
Beliefs that Hispanics and Asians living in the U.S. won't assimilate or refuse to speak English are based on stereotypes that scholars say are linked to notions of white supremacy.
By Emily Stewart
January 24, 2019
Vox
Viral footage of white Catholic students clashing with a Native American man after the March for Life anti-abortion rally turned into a politically charged controversy.
Campaign Workers Demand Minimum Wage, Progressive Culture From 2020 Dems
By Katie Glueck and Alex Roarty
January 22, 2019
McClatchy
There is an intensifying conviction among progressive operatives that internal campaign culture should reflect the very values that 2020 Democratic hopefuls passionately tout on the trail.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Crusher of Sacred Cows
By Matt Taibbi
January 21, 2019
Rolling Stone
With its silly swipes at AOC, the American political establishment is once again revealing its blindness to its own unpopularity.
The Unfinished Business of Bernie Sanders
By Jason Zengerle
January 24, 2019
GQ
Now that Sanders wields such enormous power in Democratic politics, the question is, what’s he going to do with it?
Glad the Shutdown’s Over? Thank Workers, Not Just Nancy Pelosi
By Sarah Jones
January 25, 2019
New York Magazine
Trump announced his deal hours after air traffic controllers brought flights in several of the nation’s busiest airports to a crawl.