The nation that defeated the U.S. 50 years ago now has the largest trade surplus with us of any nation.
Harold Meyerson
Harold Meyerson is editor at large of The American Prospect.
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Will the Republican Justices OK Trump’s Efforts to Winnow the Midterm Electorate?
Yesterday’s ruling doesn’t foretell where they’ll go, but their Republican bias is an established fact.
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The Democrats’ On-Again, Off-Again Class Politics
After World War II, Dems lost touch with their New Deal roots. Now they’re coming back home.
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Democrats’ 2028 Primary Schedule: A Cold Shoulder to Their New Activist Base
For reasons both good and bad, big cities don’t figure much in the states that will kick off the presidential primaries.
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The state that was the foremost champion of unpaid human labor now fosters a new-age version of it.
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The right’s attacks actually don’t focus on socialism’s defining economics.
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The California Left and the Wealth Tax
The absence of left unity for the ballot measure short-circuits any progressive agenda.
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Why Have Less Than One Percent of American Socialists Joined DSA?
Socialism has not been this popular in America in at least a century, but how it’s defined, and who defines it, matters.
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El-Sayed’s Challenge: Overcoming ‘Otherness’
If the economy is the issue, he can win Michigan in November.