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If Joe Biden Wants to Win Big, He Should Pledge to Cancel Student Debt
It’s not just the right thing to do — canceling student debt would be insanely popular and not very difficult. If Joe Biden’s supporters are serious about him winning, they should pressure him hard to do it.
Joe Biden Is Not a Blue-Collar Candidate
Joe Biden has nothing to offer workers of any race. He’s a corporate hack with a phony blue-collar veneer.
Trump the “Putin Puppet” Just Dramatically Escalated the Undeclared War Against Russia
The national security state has claimed a dangerous new victory: receiving authorization from Trump to conduct cyberattacks against enemies around the world with greater leeway — especially Russia. It’s the latest success for a years-long pressure campaign by the national security bureaucracy centered on Orwellian claims that Trump’s foreign policy is somehow pro-Russian.
Despite Everything, We Shouldn’t Give up Hope That We Can Change This Country
Everything is awful right now, and the barriers to making things better are steep. But more and more people know that the status quo cannot continue — and more and more people are fighting, even winning, battles on behalf of a better world for everyone.
To Fight Racial Inequality, We Have to Attack the Power of Corporations
Corporations are a central driver of racial inequality in American society. But it’s not because they haven’t thought enough about racial injustice — it’s because their basic goal is to maximize profits, even when it decimates the lives of black people.
To Rebuild Our Towns and Cities, We Need to Design a Green Stimulus
The COVID-19 quarantine has exposed the importance of parks, sidewalks, and other public spaces to our collective well-being. To stitch the world back together once the pandemic recedes, we should enact a massive green stimulus that builds out our public infrastructure in beautiful, imaginative, low-carbon ways.
The Third Way Is the Past. Socialism Is the Future.
For years, Third Way politicians claimed to be modernizing progressive politics by rejecting leftist policies. But their political project now stands in ruins — and it’s democratic socialism that is on the rise.
Larry Summers Is Not Your Friend
Recent reports indicate that Larry Summers is advising Joe Biden’s campaign. This is not good, because Larry Summers is very bad: his entire career has been spent protecting the wealthy few at the expense of the many.
Ending “Endless War” Can’t Just Become an Empty Slogan
A consensus is growing that the worldwide post–9/11 “forever war” must come to an end. But that goal is in danger of being watered down to the point of meaninglessness by politicians and think tanks still in thrall to the national security state and its war on terror.
With Beto O’Rourke, There’s No There There
The stakes are too high in 2020 for another charismatic, ideologically empty politician, standing for everything and nothing in particular, like Beto O'Rourke.
We Need a Class War, Not a Culture War
A reply to Angela Nagle and Michael Tracey.
Democrats Aren’t Entitled to the Latino Vote
Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have been friends to Latin America or to Latinos living in the US. Yet the Democrats seem to take the Latino vote for granted, as Joe Biden’s platform promises to extend the criminalization of immigrants.
Pelosi and Schumer Hate BDS More Than Ultranationalism
Democratic elites would rather side with Benjamin Netanyahu's racist agenda than give any power to Israel critics like Ilhan Omar.
It’s Good That Joe Rogan Endorsed Bernie. Now We Have to Organize.
We don't like plenty of what Joe Rogan has to say — but Bernie Sanders won his support without compromising any of his values. He has nothing to apologize for.
The Bipartisan Consensus in Defense of Israeli Occupation Will Not Hold
On Palestinian rights, Bernie Sanders was a progressive outlier in 2020, sandwiched among Israel hawks and imperialists. But in the coming decades, his candidacy won’t be an outlier at all: progressives are forcing a reckoning on Israel.
The Real Threat to Press Freedom
Mainstream commentators have been fretting over Donald Trump’s hostile rhetoric towards the media. But Chelsea Manning's recent jailing shows that there are much graver threats to press freedom happening right under their noses.
Black Political Life and the Blue Lives Matter Presidency
To meaningfully confront mass incarceration and police violence, the Left must move past race reductionism by recognizing the complexities of black political life.
Krystal Ball Is the Anti–Rachel Maddow Bernie Fans Have Been Waiting For
Krystal Ball was once an MSNBC star. Now she’s one of the few mainstream media figures who gets why Bernie Sanders matters and why liberal professionals shouldn’t be allowed to dominate progressive politics.
Joe Biden Isn’t the Safe Bet to Beat Donald Trump. Bernie Sanders Is.
Joe Biden is a weak candidate who is more likely to lose to Donald Trump than Bernie Sanders. The best chance we have at ousting Trump is voting for Sanders in the rest of the primaries.