All Unhappy Social Democratic Parties Are Alike: They’ve Lost the White Working Class
By Harold Meyerson In the recent U.K. elections that gave Boris Johnson’s Tories a resounding victory, Britain’s Labour Party was
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The Left Gets a Foreign Policy
Newsletter for March 18th With today’s newsletter, we offer an article written for us by Bob Dreyfuss, editor of TheDreyfussReport.com
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The Left Gets a Foreign Policy, Sort of.
With the number of Democrats who’ve opted to challenge Donald Trump’s reelection in 2020 now well into double digits and
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The Magical Realism of the Green New Deal
NLF Highlights For Feb 19th An increasing number of Americans now see climate change as an imminent threat caused by
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The Green New Deal’s Magical Realism
When young activists from the Sunrise Movement and Justice Democrats occupied House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office in late 2018 to
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Blue Wave or Red Tide? Highlights for Nov 5th
With perhaps the most important midterm elections in a generation happening tomorrow, we offer you: an invitation to join us
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Over the Rainbow: The Uncertain Future of U.S. Politics
The World Turned Upside Down: ‘Our Revolution,’ Trump Triumphant, and the Remaking of the Democratic Party When Bernie Sanders conceded
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Are The Democrats The Right Choice?
The question whether an Obama-era Democratic party may offer opportunities for labor and left-of-center political interests presumes that Obama’s Democratic Party offers potential for significant departure from the rightward tacking we’ve seen since Bill Clinton’s presidency. There is little in anything Obama’s said or done to warrant such a presumption.
Read moreEngaging with Democrats
Disillusionment with Democrats is one of the oldest—and most familiar—sentiments of labor progressives. Sadly, the first twenty-one months of the Obama era haven’t done much to alter those feelings. Without question, there has been progress on a number of critical issues—economic stimulus, health care reform, financial reform, key appointments at OSHA and the National Mediation Board (which oversees railway and airline labor relations)—which would have been unimaginable in a Republican presidency.
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