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August 24, 2020
Alexander Zaitchik
How to Break a Big Pharma Monopoly on a Covid-19 Vaccine
The race for a cure has put a spotlight on corporate control over medical research. Under a Democratic administration, it doesn’t have to be that way.
June 15, 2020
Giulia L. Heyward
The Righteous Power of the George Floyd Mural
The proliferation of murals across the country is part of a tradition dating back to the civil rights movement.
October 21, 2019
Joshua Allen
Chasing Court-Packing Could Derail Democrats’ Big Plans
FDR wasted an electoral mandate on a bid to expand the Supreme Court. It caused lasting damage to his party and the progressive agenda.
July 17, 2019
Darren Dochuk
Men of God and the Genesis of the U.S.-Saudi Relationship
William Eddy was one of several devout Christians in the oil business who helped build a pivotal alliance in U.S. Middle East policy.
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 31, 2019
Samuel Miller McDonald
The Green New Deal Can’t Be Anything Like the New Deal
Climate change demands a much more ambitious plan than the Great Depression did. It even requires reversing some of FDR's successes.
May 29, 2019
Kim Phillips-Fein
Fear and Loathing of the Green New Deal
What the backlash to the emergency legislation reveals about the age-old pathologies of the right
March 26, 2019
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Greg Grandin
A Foreign Policy Without War or Corporate Power
To make progress in America, the left needs a coherent international agenda.
October 10, 2018
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Bethany McLean
When the Next Recession Hits
The government has less flexibility to address a financial crisis than it did during the last one.
October 2, 2018
Magazine
David Sessions
America’s Missing Labor Party
The history of strikes shows that, for lasting success, workers need to capture political power.
June 12, 2018
Jeet Heer
A brief history of American presidents praising dictators.
May 11, 2018
Jeet Heer
How Democrats Can Over-Promise Like Trump
It worked for the president. It can work for his opponents, too.
May 11, 2018
Peter-Christian Aigner
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Michael Brenes
The Long, Tortured History of the Job Guarantee
How liberals, over decades, worked to undermine a proposal that has long enjoyed public support
May 9, 2018
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Vauhini Vara
California Dreaming
Opposition to the president in Orange County has boosted hopes of a wave election this fall. But Democrats need more than anti-Trump anger to win.
May 4, 2018
Robert D. Atkinson
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Michael Lind
The Myth of the Roosevelt “Trustbusters”
Teddy and FDR weren't the anti-corporate crusaders that they're portrayed as by populists today.
September 5, 2017
Clint Smith
Affirmative Action as Reparations
For affirmative action to survive, we need to rethink what it is meant to do and who it is meant to serve.
August 10, 2017
Graham Vyse
Trump’s Insane Public Spat With McConnell Is Historically Unprecedented
“There’s nothing like this. We’ve seen presidents and congressional leaders at odds with each other, but always from different parties.”
July 18, 2017
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Bryce Covert
Back to Work
How Democrats can win over Americans left behind in the new economy.
July 12, 2017
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Matt Stoller
The Return of Monopoly
With Amazon on the rise and a business tycoon in the White House, can a new generation of Democrats return the party to its trust-busting roots?
June 21, 2017
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David Dayen
Don’t Get Met—It Pays
Did Trump use an executive order to aid a generous corporate backer?
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