Lessons From Vermont
Five things a Vermont third party can teach us about carving out a space to the left of the Democrats.
Tiffany McCoy is the executive director of House Our Neighbors and one of the managers of the Proposition 1A campaign.
Five things a Vermont third party can teach us about carving out a space to the left of the Democrats.

Campaigning for Jeremy Corbyn isn’t enough. The Labour Party must be transformed into a vehicle of popular democracy.
Without a socialist left, both inside and outside of unions, organized labor will continue to lose ground.
US public sector unions have gotten a reprieve. Will they use it to rebuild, or squander the opportunity?
The dismantling of autoworker gains was a class project, not the inevitable result of globalization.
Just like Trump, UFC president Dana White built his fortune off exploitation and union-busting. No wonder they’re friends.
Community climate-adaptation initiatives preserve and build on stark geographic inequalities.
Donald Trump’s brand of reaction is particularly noxious, but it sits comfortably in the Reagan tradition.
The Turkish military isn’t a friend to democracy or progress, and never has been.
Driver-owned apps could end Uber’s exploitative reign over the ride-share market.
Independence Day: Resurgence reflects how little vision Hollywood — and neoliberalism — have left.
West Papua is fighting for independence from Indonesia — but will it win regional solidarity for its efforts?
The ban on performance-enhancing drugs is fueled by moral panic, not medicine.
Debates during the rise of Margaret Thatcher can tell us much about how to respond to our political moment.
Latin America’s “pink tide” governments challenge neoliberalism and US hegemony, but leave the basic structures of capitalism intact.

Declassified CIA documents reveal a deadly security state operating far outside the bounds of democratic control.
Old ways of thinking about mass democratic politics won’t cut it in today’s globalized, atomized society.
President Obama’s new paper defending the Affordable Care Act only shows why we need single-payer health care.
Hillary Clinton’s selection of Tim Kaine shows how out of touch Democrats are from the country’s populist political mood.
New movements threaten Robert Mugabe’s authoritarian government in Zimbabwe. But they risk being co-opted by elites.