The angry outbreaks that have disrupted this year’s GOP convention haven’t been seen since Republicans nominated Barry Goldwater in 1964.
Harold Meyerson
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Convention: A City on Edge
As Republicans prepare to officially nominate Donald Trump as their standard bearer, Cleveland braces for the worst.
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Bernie, Hillary, and the Ghost of Ernst Thalmann
In campaigning for Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders will be making sure his voters don’t suffer from the blind spot that plagued Nazi-era Communist leader Ernst Thälmann, who argued that the Social Democrats posed a greater threat than Adolf Hitler.
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Why the Democrats Need to Sink the TPP
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, coming before the party’s platform committee on Friday, is a nightmare for Hillary Clinton.
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How Democrats Can Unify in California
Both Sanderistas and Clintonistas should campaign this fall against the corporations’ growing Sacramento clout.
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The First Post-Middle-Class Election
The politics of downward mobility and racial diversity have eroded the center, pushing Democrats to the left and Republicans toward an authoritarian right.
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Harmony and Dissonance: Two Meetings of the Democrats and the Left
Last weekend, a “People’s Summit” in Chicago and a Democratic Party meeting in California demonstrated how progressives can come together.
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The Two Democratic Victors
And how the unions can bring them together.
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How the Bros Are Undermining Bernie
If the Sanders Revolution is ever to come to fruition, the Bernie Brigades will have to vote for and work for Hillary Clinton’s election in the fall.
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Europe Goes American, and That Ain’t Good
The same racial, religious, and ethnic tensions that have long divided America are now unraveling Northern Europe’s bonds of solidarity.
