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From the Magazine
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Spring 2019
2020 and the Democrats’ Theory of Change
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Spring 2019
Will Immigrants Find Themselves in the Driver’s Seat?
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Spring 2019
How to Rebuild the Labor Movement, State by State
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Winter 2019
States of Change
Must-Reads
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The Trump Administration Says It Can’t Handle More Migrants, Ignoring Thousands of Vacant Beds in Family Detention Centers
Apr 19, 2019
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Blue City Challenge: Clawing Back Power from Red States
May 15, 2019
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Ten Theses on Political Economy and Foreign Policy
Apr 29, 2019
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No Surprise: Trump’s “Buy American” Policy Is a Sham
Apr 26, 2019
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Trump's Most Nakedly Corrupt Tweet Yet
May 9, 2019
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Boomers and Millennials Unite
Apr 29, 2019
The Magazine
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Vol. 30 No. 2Spring 2019
Columns
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2020 and the Democrats’ Theory of Change
The Democrats can and must think big, but they have to frame their ideas around the realities of a coalition party that includes suburban moderates. -
A Groundbreaking New Enterprise: Buybax!
Want to make a killing in the stock market without actually creating anything of value? Try Buybax!
Notebook
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Getting Serious About Power
Can we learn something about the right’s strategic coherence without emulating either their ideas or their contempt for democracy? -
Richie Neal and Trump’s Taxes
The costs of having a corporate Democrat chair the House Ways and Means Committee -
Will Immigrants Find Themselves in the Driver’s Seat?
Trump’s ICE crackdown is increasing support for access to driver’s licenses. -
Could California End Childhood Poverty?
America’s most liberal state government has a far-reaching plan to do just that. But does it have the will to enact it?
Culture
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Is There Such a Thing as Progressive Nationalism?
In his most recent books, John Judis makes the case that there is—and that by indiscriminately embracing globalism, many liberals helped create nationalism’s virulent Trumpian version. -
The Courage to Defy Brutality
The case of a black Army veteran that spurred a South Carolina federal judge to defy his state's white supremacist power structure -
The Road to Ending Mass Incarceration Goes Through the DA's Office
Reform is under way at the nerve center of the penal state, but it won’t be enough. -
The Crisis Last Time
The 2008 financial collapse should have brought the repudiation of neoliberalism. What happened? -
The Trouble with Tech
Once you understand the tech giants are capturing unguarded human experience, their business makes sense. -
The Unkept Promises of Higher Education
Colleges need to focus on their original mission—undergraduate teaching—for a new wave of low-income and minority students.
Features
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Trump and China: The Art of the Desperate Deal
Will Robert Lighthizer restrain Donald Trump’s impulse to take a headline-grabbing and self-defeating China deal? -
Congress’s New Progressives Take On the Banks
The House Financial Services Committee—long a landing place for pro-bank Democrats—now includes AOC and a flock of leftists. And Maxine Waters is its new chair. -
Beto Versus The Barrio
The rock-star Democrat Beto O’Rourke, a candidate for president, once supported the bulldozing of a low-income neighborhood in his hometown of El Paso—a project spearheaded by his father-in-law. -
Needed: A U.S. Policy on Saudi Arabia
The next administration would do well to revise the long-standing U.S. partnership with Saudi Arabia, and America has substantial leverage to produce change in the kingdom’s behavior. -
The Migration Crisis and the Future of Europe
The identity crisis imperiling the continent isn’t one of race and religion. It’s one of Europe’s willingness to preserve and expand its liberal values. -
Not So Supreme?
Congress actually has a lot of mostly unused power to rein in the Roberts Court by clarifying the intent of the law. -
Do All Roads Lead to Congestion Pricing?
Portland, Oregon, and New York are taking different routes to charging drivers who need to get downtown during the rush hour. They’ll also have to think hard about the impacts on low-income residents. -
AMLO’s Gamble
Mexico’s decidedly leftist new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is taking on the business-political-criminal elite that has dominated his nation, and drenched it in bloodshed, for the past 40 years. -
How to Rebuild the Labor Movement, State by State
What progressives can learn from conservative anti-union advocacy
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Trickle Downers
The folly, dysfunctions, and sheer idiocy of feed-the-rich economic policies.
Another GOP Brainstorm—“You’ll Be Healthier If We Take Away Your Health Care”—Struck Down in Court
A federal judge rejects Medicaid work requirement programs in Arkansas and Kentucky because kicking people off their health insurance won’t somehow improve their health.
A Bad Week for Paul Manafort and School Scammers—But a Great Year for White-Collar Crime
Under Trump, prosecutions for white-collar crimes have reached an all-time low, while prosecutions for being an undocumented immigrant have soared.
Amazon Is Giving Up on New York, and Activists in Nashville and Northern Virginia Are Energized
Like their New York counterparts, organizers in other potential sites of Amazon expansion want a more democratic process that produces more equitable growth.
Thanks to Trump, Payday Lenders Will Keep on Merrily Bilking the Poor
The government shutdown reminded us that millions of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck—which payday lenders will only continue to exploit if the CFPB has its way.
Border Wall or No, Immigrants Will Soon Have to Scale a Paywall
Proposed new Trump administration rules could keep low-income immigrants from applying for green cards or citizenship.
