George Miller calls it quits.
Harold Meyerson
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Dan Cantor’s Machine
New York’s Working Families Party has built the most effective political operation the American left has seen in decades. Can it duplicate its success in other states?
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What Divides Democrats
It’s economics: Cory Booker’s Wall Street liberalism versus Bill de Blasio’s anti-corporate populism. These divisions will shape the 2016 presidential contest.Â
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Reviving the Los Angeles River
In 1913, Los Angeles began drawing its water from far away. A century later, it may reclaim its own, long-neglected river.
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Dissent Magazine Turns 60
How a little democratic socialist journal—with nothing to fall back on save its brilliance and its passion—has survived for six decades.
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Mining for Victory
One of the nation’s oldest unions has waged a decidedly newfangled battle with a coal company, winning back retirement benefits for thousands of members.Â
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Two-Faced: The Democratic Party’s Divergent Future
Bill de Blasio and Cory Booker personify alternative ways forward for the party.
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De-Kochifying the Dance
Why New York should take David Koch’s name off a Lincoln Center theater
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Proof the Left Coast Is the Best Coast?
Last week, California raised its minimum wage, authorized driver’s licenses for the undocumented, and saw its GOP back immigration reform. Can any of this spread east?Â
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Trumka’s Ploy
How the AFL-CIO president proposed revolution in order to get reform
