Energized by Zohran Mamdani’s primary triumph, 1,200 DSA members came to Chicago to chart the group’s future.
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The Mainstream Begins to Come to Mamdani
So, he’s a socialist. But his agenda sure is popular, and in the American progressive tradition.
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NYC’s Mayoral Race: Did Cuomo Peak Too Soon?
Today on TAP: The improbable rise of Zohran Mamdani and the prospect of rare unity on the left
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Red Weather Vanes
Maurice Isserman’s history of American communism documents both its achievements and its fatal obeisance to Soviet doctrines.
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DSA Is United for Palestinian Freedom
A response to Harold Meyerson’s resignation from Democratic Socialists of America
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The Divisions in DSA
Today on TAP: And why, after 48 years in the organization, I’m quitting.
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The Times and the Post Miss the Socialist Forest for the Trees
Today on TAP: The two national papers’ commemoration of the March on Washington profiled participants, but skipped their politics.
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The Socialist Emergence Inside the Democratic Tradition
At a conference for socialist elected officials, the task is to ‘represent the movement of the future in the movement of the present.’
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How New York’s Democratic Socialists Brought Unions Around to Public Renewables
State lawmakers worked hard to convince utilities and construction union members that they would not end up on the chopping block.
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Schumer Joins Local Fight Against Astoria Power Plant Proposal
DSA organized against a fracked-gas plant in Queens, New York. Now Chuck Schumer is getting involved.