Democrats have glommed onto proposals such as the impractical Medicare for All and the inadequate public option. There’s a better way.
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Democratic Voters Are Boiling Mad at the Democratic Establishment, and It’s Ridiculous
The opposition party is on an electoral roll yet is pilloried for not fighting Donald Trump hard enough.
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The Affordability Case for Public Factories
It’s not socialism. Public factories are an old American answer to monopoly profiteering. The Progressive Caucus wants to bring them back.
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Michigan’s Democratic Senate Primary Needs a Non-Aggression Pact
Polls show the three-way slugfest between Abdul El-Sayed, Mallory McMorrow, and Haley Stevens is dragging them all down and creating a pickup opportunity for the GOP.
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RFK Jr.’s Lies Stain the Republic
Despite the damage, he remains Trump’s most popular cabinet secretary, an ominous sign for 2028.
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I Learned So Much From President Trump’s Address to Congress
And from the Democrats’ very effective protests.
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After a Decade of Left-Populism, What Have We Learned About Political Change?
Two new books size up the accomplishments, and the agonies, of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren.
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The Paranoid Style of Naomi Klein
The Doppleganger author has smart, cutting insights into the conspiratorial delusions of Naomi Wolf and today’s MAGA right. It’s too bad she can’t face her own.
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In the 2024 Republican Presidential Contest, Watch the “Wine Track”
Democrats are used to candidates who draw mainly from the college-educated, but now there’s a GOP version of the brie-and-Chablis contest, and the entrants just might knock off Trump, even if the ex-president is buoyed by a loyal blue-collar base.
