DSA members at the Women’s March in New York City on January 21, 2017. (Courtesy of Democratic Socialists of America)
Capitalism is broken—that’s why socialism is on the agenda for 2020. Katrina vanden Heuvel explains—she’s publisher and editorial director of The Nation.
Also we look back at some of the big events of 2019, starting with the terrorist attacks by white nationalists, in El Paso and elsewhere. Historian Kathleen Belew says they are not isolated events carried out by loners; in fact they are connected, the work of a movement with tens of thousands of active members. And 2019 of course has been the year of impeachment—historian Rick Perlstein has comment and analysis.
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