Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reshaped her party’s agenda, resuscitated Bernie Sanders’s campaign, is harnessing her immense star power and the legion of young lefties, to push the Democratic Party away from an obsession with its most moderate members..
Of the two New Deals -- the one from the 1930s and today’s Green one -- only the first was treated in its time as a response to the economic equivalent of a category five hurricane.
The global climate strike on Sept. 20. will almost certainly be the biggest day of climate action in the planet’s history, writes Bill McKibben. “It can’t just be young people. It needs to be all of us.”
The Sunrise Movement rose to prominence in November, after newly elected Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attended a Sunrise protest in then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's office. This has all been in the pursuit of the Green New Deal...
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The Green New Deal embodies the kind of big thinking that party leaders have shirked over the past few decades, during which liberals in Washington opted for incremental policy tweaks and compromises with Republicans and corporations alike.
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