It cannot be overstated how much of an obstacle Cuomo, once a popular and inordinately powerful executive, was to the progressive movement in New York. His successor, Kathy Hochul, will have to gravitate to the left, where New York voters are.
Whatever the progressives decide to prioritize next, they will act knowing one enormous impediment is gone for good. There will be no more government by vendetta. The Andrew Cuomo era has truly ended.
The owners of capitalist society would like us to see politics as its own sphere of activity completely separate from the economy.
“The idea is to whitewash American history of any legacy of racism,” said state Democratic Rep. James Talarico.
A systemic look at the evolving intellectual career of New York Times economics writer and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman in his shift from herald of neoliberal globalism to an emphasis on class and the public policies that address social inequities.
The annual decline in the number of union members actually slowed after the a right-to-work law in Michigan took effect in 2013. And membership grew to 604,000 in 2020 from 589,000 in 2019.
If working people fail to see real material distinctions between life under Trump and life under Biden, they’ll look for an alternative to the party in power.
And what it lost in the process
A satirical, spoken piece with rousing, happy music, and is narrated by Mr. Wendell Pierce, and it features-- a main character of Mr. Game who was a combination of a political, street hustler, Dolomite evangelical preacher, carnival barker, con man.
In this new book, Thomas Frank is challenging himself, writes reviewer Rolsky, "to rescue the terms 'populism' and 'populist' from the mouths of those he deems unfit to use them: the anti-populists."
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