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Democratic Socialism
August 3, 2023
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Ross Barkan
Has the Socialist Moment Already Come and Gone?
Bernie and AOC helped build a formidable movement. Since Biden took office, we’ve seen its reach—and its limits.
November 9, 2021
Raina Lipsitz
The Democratic Plot to Stop a Socialist From Becoming Buffalo’s Mayor
India Walton won the Democratic primary fair and square. Then the man she beat teamed up with the party establishment—and Republican donors—to take her down.
June 18, 2021
Danielle Tcholakian
Can the Socialist Mayor Rise Again?
India Walton is running to be the next leader of her beloved Buffalo. But what she really wants is to revive a tradition of social democracy in America’s great cities.
October 23, 2020
Isabel Cristo
The Bernie Organizers Who Want to Elect Biden—Then Defeat Him
A grassroots coalition is fighting like hell to build power for the left. Securing a Democratic win this presidential election is a necessary detour on that path.
September 2, 2020
Jesse A. Myerson
The End of the Voter-Consumer
The work of organizing a politically legible coalition of nonvoters is functionally the same as what’s needed for the left to win elections.
June 12, 2019
Conor Lynch
The Left’s Failure to Envision a World Without Capitalism
Bernie Sanders' speech on democratic socialism underscored the limits of a growing movement's imagination.
May 20, 2019
Magazine
Robert Westbrook
Socialism and the Democracy Deficit
The quest for radical equality in the American grain
May 17, 2019
Magazine
Astra Taylor
Reclaiming the Future
On the growing appeal of socialism in an age of inequality
February 19, 2019
Magazine
Jedediah Britton-Purdy
The Spiritual Case for Socialism
A new book attempts to deepen the philosophical dimension of a revived left.
December 20, 2018
Miguel Salazar
Do America’s Socialists Have a Race Problem?
Inside a raging debate that has split the country's most exciting new political movement
November 8, 2017
Graham Vyse
How a Socialist Beat One of Virginia’s Most Powerful Republicans
Is Lee Carter’s shocking victory a sign of things to come across America?
October 13, 2017
Sarah Jaffe
Bernie Sanders Isn’t Winning Local Elections for the Left
As social democrats break through in "red" places like Birmingham, the national media is getting the story all wrong.
August 24, 2017
John B. Judis
The Socialism America Needs Now
Bernie Sanders is the most popular politician in the country, and the DSA convention just made national news. But U.S. socialism has to find a viable path to power.
August 18, 2017
Sarah Jaffe
The New Normal of U.S. Politics
Why the voting booth matters less than the streets.
February 3, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
The Big Winner of the 2016 Race: Democratic Socialism
As Bernie Sanders heads into the New Hampshire primary, things are looking up for the left.
January 26, 2016
Elizabeth Bruenig
Bernie is putting a human face on socialism.
November 19, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Bernie Sanders is about to give his "chill out, I'm not a Soviet" speech at Georgetown.
July 31, 2015
Paul Blest
Bernie Sanders's Blind Spot on Race Was Imported From Scandinavia
The limits of democratic socialism in America today
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