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The 1978 Equal Rights Amendment March
On a broiling summer afternoon in 1978, the Women's Movement held what was then known as the largest parade for feminism in history.
by
Henry Kokkeler
via
Boundary Stones
on
April 13, 2022
An American History of the Socialist Idea
The American socialism movement's open participation in and with the broad democratic left benefits the socialist cause.
by
Harold Meyerson
via
Dissent
on
April 4, 2022
New Left Review
Who did neoliberalism?
by
Erik Baker
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n+1
on
March 8, 2022
The Truth About Prohibition
The temperance movement wasn’t an example of American exceptionalism; it was a globe-spanning network of activists and politicians against economic exploitation.
by
Mark Lawrence Schrad
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The Atlantic
on
January 1, 2022
School Board Meetings Used to be Boring. Why Have They Become War Zones?
Conservatives can’t turn back the clock. But they can disrupt local meetings.
by
Adam Laats
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Washington Post
on
September 29, 2021
Left, Right and Keynes
Today's centrists are a hot mess.
by
Zachary D. Carter
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In The Long Run
on
September 23, 2021
Occupy Wall Street at 10: What It Taught Us, and Why It Mattered
It basically started the wave of activism that revived the left—and taught people to get serious about power.
by
Micah L. Sifry
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The New Republic
on
September 17, 2021
How American Environmentalism Failed
Traditional environmentalism has lacked a meaningful, practical democratic vision, rendering it largely marginal to the day-to-day lives of most Americans.
by
William Shutkin
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The MIT Press Reader
on
August 31, 2021
Whose Side Is the Supreme Court On?
The Supreme Court and the pursuit of racial equality.
by
Randall Kennedy
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The Nation
on
August 9, 2021
Where Would We Be Without the New Deal?
A new history charts the forgotten ways the social politics of the Roosevelt years transformed the United States.
by
Michael Kazin
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The Nation
on
July 26, 2021
Is It Time to Cancel FDR?
Today’s progressives are children of the old Republican Party, not the New Deal Democrats. Roosevelt and his followers stood for nearly everything they oppose.
by
Michael Lind
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Tablet
on
April 11, 2021
The Anti-Democratic Origins of the Jewish Establishment
The history of the ADL and AJC reveals that they were created to consolidate the power of wealthy men and stifle the grassroots left.
by
Emmaia Gelman
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Jewish Currents
on
March 12, 2021
partner
George Shultz: The Last Progressive
A steadfast Republican committed to union-management cooperation, peace through treaties, competitive capitalism, and empowerment of African-Americans.
by
Ron Schatz
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HNN
on
February 28, 2021
The Helen Keller You Didn't Learn About in School
Limited education on Keller's life has implications for how students perceive people with disabilities .
by
Olivia B. Waxman
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Arpita Aneja
via
TIME
on
December 15, 2020
The Past and Future of the Left in the Democratic Party
Centrist Democrats who blamed the left for election losses would do well to remember the people who have fought for and shaped the party’s history.
by
Michael Brenes
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Michael Koncewicz
via
The Nation
on
December 9, 2020
Can Biden Be Pushed Left?
History suggests that what you see on the campaign trail, or even in a candidate’s past record, is not always what you get from a president once in power.
by
Bob Master
via
Dissent
on
October 14, 2020
Richard Hofstadter’s Discontents
Why did the historian come to fear the very movements he once would have celebrated?
by
Jeet Heer
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The Nation
on
October 6, 2020
Frances Perkins: Architect of the New Deal
She designed Social Security and public works programs that helped bring millions out of poverty. Her work has been largely forgotten.
by
Bat-Ami Zucker
,
Hannah Steinkopf-Frank
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DeLysa Burnier
via
JSTOR Daily
on
July 8, 2020
The Real Story Behind “Because of Sex”
One of the most powerful phrases in the Civil Rights Act is often viewed as a malicious joke that backfired. But its entrance into law was far more savvy.
by
Rebecca Onion
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Christina Wolbrecht
via
Slate
on
June 16, 2020
Alternate Histories
A conversation with John Nichols about the night in 1944 that altered the trajectory of the Democratic Party.
by
John Nichols
,
Wen Stephenson
via
The Baffler
on
May 21, 2020
What Endures of the Romance of American Communism
Many of the Communists who felt destined for a life of radicalism experienced their lives as irradiated by a kind of expressiveness that made them feel centered.
by
Vivian Gornick
via
New York Review of Books
on
April 3, 2020
Not So Great
Reflections on the problems with progressives’ central principle that activist government is the only mechanism able to solve a modern society’s problems.
by
William Voegeli
via
The New Criterion
on
February 27, 2020
Bernie Sanders Is George McGovern
The similarities between 2020 and 1972 are too astonishing to ignore. But there’s one big difference.
by
Derek Thompson
via
The Atlantic
on
February 21, 2020
Jesse Jackson’s Political Revolution
Before Bernie Bros vs. the DNC, there was Jesse Jackson vs. the Atari Democrats.
by
Lily Geismer
via
Jacobin
on
February 19, 2020
Amid a Revival of Anti-Monopoly Sentiment, a New Book Traces Its History
Matt Stoller charts the shifts in American attitudes toward corporate consolidation.
by
Kyle Sammin
via
National Review
on
October 15, 2019
partner
The Radical Roots of ‘the Squad’
How Mickey Leland and the Congressional Black Caucus paved the way for today's progressive politics.
by
Benjamin Talton
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Made By History
on
August 28, 2019
The Radical Roots of Free Speech
Conservatives like to claim that leftists are opponents of free speech. But that’s nonsense.
by
Chase Burghgrave
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Laura Weinrib
via
Jacobin
on
July 25, 2019
When Socialists Swept Milwaukee
Democratic socialists attending the 2020 Democratic Convention won’t be out of place in a city with a long history of socialist governance.
by
Lindsey Anderson
via
Belt Magazine
on
May 21, 2019
The Transformation of Bernie Sanders
How the Vermont senator went from a third-party independent to a 2020 frontrunner.
by
Matthew Karp
via
The Nation
on
May 7, 2019
The Dawn of Big Government and the Administrative State
A new book correctly diagnoses how non-elected agencies are running the country, but falls short on how it got this way.
by
Paul Gottfried
via
The American Conservative
on
March 13, 2019
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