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!”
Paul Krugman and Gabriel Zucman
Paul Krugman Substack
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?
Beth English and Christopher Sellers
Dissent Magazine
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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If the economy is the issue, he can win Michigan in November. El-Sayed's overriding message has to be that his election will help end Trump’s disastrous control of the economy. Halley Stevens concession and endorsement; Mallory McMorrow endorsement.
Centrist Democrats are writing off New York City socialist wins as a fluke reducible to gentrification and low turnout. But it was the Democratic Party machine itself that spent decades cultivating a depoliticized electorate.
Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis
Democracy Now!
More than 70 years after the kidnapping, torture and lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi, a major new photography exhibit and companion book ask how the world would be different “If Emmett Till Lived.”
The National Priorities Project (NPP) at the Institute for Policy Studies has estimated the federal government plans to spend $268.9 billion to undertake mass deportations throughout the second Trump administration.
In the aftermath of the Eaton and Palisades fires, housing could have been stabilized and tenants could have been protected. But the private market won. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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