Bernie’s Next Steps

Bernie’s Next Steps

John Nichols on Sanders, Steve Phillips on Big Data, and Adam Hochschild on a forgotten radical.

Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
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Despite Bernie’s big losses in Michigan and elsewhere on Tuesday, he’s staying in the race to challenge Biden on the issues—his issues—which Democratic voters support. John Nichols assesses the opportunities that remain, and also talks about what we need to do now about the coronavirus and the elections.

Also: What Big Data says about beating Trump: Steve Phillips explains—he wrote New York Times bestselling book Brown Is the New White and he’s the founder of Democracy in Color.

Plus: the story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of the early 20th century. Rose Pastor Stokes has been forgotten, but now a new book tells her amazing story: Rebel Cinderella. Author Adam Hochschild explains.

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Editorial Director and Publisher, The Nation

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Jon Wiener Jon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.


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