Trump has thrown the Democrats a lifeline. Will they take it?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
AOC Defends an American Socialist Success: Veterans’ Health Care
While proponents of privatization, ignoring the evidence, find one more reason to attack her.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
House Democrats Play Dirty to Shut Out Progressive New Voices
The new rule against primary challenges is meant to tilt the party more towards the center.
Posted inEconomic Policy
AOC Live at the Financial Services Committee
What were once pro forma hearings that catered to Wall Street fanboys now feature women crusading for their constituents.
Posted inEconomic Policy
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.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Myth of American Innovation
The intrepid New Yorker pulls back the curtain on how private companies profit from taxpayer-funded research.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Want a Green New Deal? Then Challenge Global Capitalism
As climate change accelerates, communities of color suffer while corporations continue to rake in profits and the wealthy flee to safer locales.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Markey and Ocasio-Cortez Team Up on Green New Deal
Can an intergenerational alliance solidify a Democratic consensus on climate?
Posted inTAP
AOC’s Achievement: Making Americans’ Progressive Beliefs Politically Acceptable
Of all the reasons that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is driving the right crazy, one of the most important is this: She’s advancing presumably radical ideas (by the right’s standards, anyway) that actually have massive public support. Green New Deal? Fuzzy though its meanings may be, it brings together regional development policies for the huge region […]
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has Super Powers
Has a freshman member of Congress ever gotten this much attention?
