Mary Annaïse Heglar talks to Kate and Daniel about climate grief; why we don’t have to choose between caring about police violence and caring about the polar bears; and why Bernie Sanders’s campaign message didn’t resonate with many (especially older) black voters.
The afterlife of The Romance of American Communism shows that no political movement ever really ends. We bear the weight of dead generations—and sometimes living ones, too.
On this week’s show, Kate and Daniel talk to Waleed Shahid about how the left can still build a winning coalition for climate justice after the Bernie Sanders campaign.
A generation of thinkers was raised in the orbit of centrist technocracy. As its luster continues to fade, strange new gods will arise in their midst.
A socialist president would have to navigate with great skill between the rocks of utopia and the shoals of compromise.
E.J. Dionne on his new book Code Red and the power of “visionary gradualism.”
The antimonopoly tradition once contributed to mobilization, coalition building, and sustained reform across the liberal-left spectrum, and it might do so again today.
The individualist credo is exacerbating already steep inequality and driving elites to protect their privilege by any means—even criminal ones.
Only a strong movement can put the management of capitalism on the political agenda.
A report back from Labor Notes’s first ever conference in Asia.
How the 2016 election revealed the possibilities for new political identities.
The primary field isn’t polarized between left and center as clearly as it was in 2016. But Sanders is still the only candidate who tells us, over and over, that we need more than a good president.
If there is one thing the first Democratic debates made clear, it is that movements lead, politicians follow.
The ironic consequence of Sanders’s 2016 campaign is that most Americans now have a difficult time understanding how his socialism differs from the stands taken by other progressive candidates.
How should the struggle for reparations for slavery fit into a broader political strategy for the left?
