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Democracy

Will We Still be American after Democracy Dies?

July 7, 2020 • by Johann Neem

There is a real possibility that American democracy will die come November. I hope not. I pray not. But I worry. Many scenarios that would have once appeared fantastic, now seem to be within the realm of the possible. One does not need a vivid imagination to wonder what would ...

Will We Still be American after Democracy Dies?

Economy

We Won’t Have a Truly Global Economy Until We Start Taxing It That Way

Reconstructing our tax system is an integral part of future national industrial policy as we restart the economy

July 2, 2020 • by Marshall Auerback

Taxation is one of those areas that exposes the contradictions at the heart of globalization. Globalization of goods has proceeded quickly, as has the harmonization of industrial standards across countries. Harmonization of taxation? Not so easy. The power to tax is the ultimate national prerogative, one that very few sovereign nations would ...

We Won’t Have a Truly Global Economy Until We Start Taxing It That Way

Feature

How “Blue Lives Matter” Perpetuates Police Violence

The movement fosters an environment of fear, hatred, and racism

June 9, 2020 • by Adam Quinn

In the aftermath of the killings of Terence Crutcher in Tulsa and Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte at the hands of police, the Blue Lives Matter hashtag rallied around a video of a group of black youth attacking a white man and taking his pants off in a parking garage ...

How “Blue Lives Matter” Perpetuates Police Violence

Activism

From Mad Cows to Coronavirus

When Government Fails, Grassroots Activism Flourishes

March 17, 2020 • by Sidney Tarrow

This was bad enough; but in March 1996, Britain’s secretary of state for health announced ten cases of something similar in another species: a new form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) had been diagnosed in human patients. CJD is a fatal disease caused by a rampant protein that eats away the brain cells ...

Politics

The Pandemic Highlights the Capacities of Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Ron Klain

March 13, 2020 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

Trump has made war on science, journalism, the welfare state, and constitutional democracy. He has made a mockery of public service and he has poisoned public discourse. He has enriched the financial elite along with his kleptocratic family and friends, bestowing on the adulating mobs who follow him a little ...

The Pandemic Highlights the Capacities of Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Ron Klain

North America

COVID-19: The Fierce Urgency of Now

National political organizations need to recalibrate: this is not business as usual

March 13, 2020 • by Micah L. Sifry

Indivisible isn’t alone. The Joe Biden for President campaign is currently asking people to sign-up to knock on doors for him in Florida, Arizona, and Illinois. AccessNow, the digital rights organization, just sent me an email asking for nominations for the “Privacy Defenders and Offenders” project, with the winners of the Privacy Defender ...

North America

‘Resistance’ Women Loved Elizabeth Warren. Here’s Why Their Groups Didn’t Fight for Her.

Wary of factional battles and worried about beating Trump, resistance groups withheld endorsements.

March 10, 2020 • by Lara Putnam

I know someone who has a “Nevertheless she persisted” tattoo. If you hang out with the kind of fierce, aging, progressive women who have been moving mountains since Donald Trump’s election, you probably do too. Since 2017, I have been following the new grassroots democracy groups that popped up like wildfire across the country ...

‘Resistance’ Women Loved Elizabeth Warren. Here’s Why Their Groups Didn’t Fight for Her.

Politics

Will We Ever Elect a Professor President?

March 10, 2020 • by David Perlmutter

So, like a lot of professors’ children, I vowed in my youth never to become a professor. You may notice from my byline that I am a professor. Unlike a much more common popular culture character -- the K–12 teacher who can be crazy, good, or bad -- the popular culture stereotype of ...

Will We Ever Elect a Professor President?

North America

Heartland Despair and the Democratic Primary

The appeal of populism to marginalized white Americans is one of the strongest arguments for Bernie Sanders’s candidacy

March 9, 2020 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

Both Brian and his wife Sarah are burdened by substantial medical and educational debts. Sarah works as a nurse, Brian works in a tire shop. They struggle to make ends meet, they worry about the future -- and, for now, they are putting off having children. The profile’s central theme is ...

Heartland Despair and the Democratic Primary

North America

Democrats Might Have the Stronger Party.

They also have a harder job.

March 5, 2020 • by Julia Azari

Does this mean the system “worked?” First, I agree with Hans Noel that it’s early and there’s lots we don’t know. But it’s also important to think about the demands of the Democratic Party coalition when we assess the effectiveness of the party. And there are several glaring strategic and institutional problems. ...

Democrats Might Have the Stronger Party.

North America

The Four Hurdles and The Four Temptations of Bernie Sanders

February 25, 2020 • by Andrew Arato

The final hurdle is the Constitution. This involves the separation of powers, a powerful Supreme Court, and federal decentralization. Each hurdle also suggests a temptation inherent in populist politics, which Sanders represents on the left, as Trump does on the right. Securing the Democratic nomination in 2020 is a tall order for ...

The Four Hurdles and The Four Temptations of Bernie Sanders

North America

The Specter of George McGovern’s Defeat in 1972

Similarities — and Key Differences — with the Prospects for Sanders in 2020

February 25, 2020 • by Bruce Miroff

Now that Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, has emerged as the clear frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in 2020, the old warnings echo even louder. Veteran media commentator Chris Matthews is typical of alarmists in prophesying that Sanders as nominee would match McGovern in losing 49 states (presumably Vermont ...

United States

Will We Still be American after Democracy Dies?

We Won’t Have a Truly Global Economy Until We Start Taxing It That Way

Reconstructing our tax system is an integral part of future national industrial policy as we restart the economy

How “Blue Lives Matter” Perpetuates Police Violence

The movement fosters an environment of fear, hatred, and racism

From Mad Cows to Coronavirus

When Government Fails, Grassroots Activism Flourishes

The Pandemic Highlights the Capacities of Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Ron Klain

COVID-19: The Fierce Urgency of Now

National political organizations need to recalibrate: this is not business as usual

‘Resistance’ Women Loved Elizabeth Warren. Here’s Why Their Groups Didn’t Fight for Her.

Wary of factional battles and worried about beating Trump, resistance groups withheld endorsements.

Will We Ever Elect a Professor President?

Heartland Despair and the Democratic Primary

The appeal of populism to marginalized white Americans is one of the strongest arguments for Bernie Sanders’s candidacy

Democrats Might Have the Stronger Party.

They also have a harder job.

The Four Hurdles and The Four Temptations of Bernie Sanders

The Specter of George McGovern’s Defeat in 1972

Similarities — and Key Differences — with the Prospects for Sanders in 2020

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