The Left

Remembering Mario Savio, ‘Freedom’s Orator’

Remembering Mario Savio, ‘Freedom’s Orator’ Remembering Mario Savio, ‘Freedom’s Orator’

The man who helped spark Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement fifty years ago would have championed today’s activism, from the Dreamers to Occupy to Ferguson.

Dec 10, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Tom Hayden

Death to ‘The New Republic’! Long Live the New ‘New Republic’!

Death to ‘The New Republic’! Long Live the New ‘New Republic’! Death to ‘The New Republic’! Long Live the New ‘New Republic’!

The current troubles at The New Republic are an echo of its past. 

Dec 8, 2014 / Greg Grandin

This Is the Next Big Fight Between Progressives and the Wall Street Dems

This Is the Next Big Fight Between Progressives and the Wall Street Dems This Is the Next Big Fight Between Progressives and the Wall Street Dems

Progressive senators are objecting to Obama’s latest Wall Street nominee.

Nov 24, 2014 / Zoë Carpenter

Who’s Ready for Hillary?

Who’s Ready for Hillary? Who’s Ready for Hillary?

Depending on whom you ask, Clinton is a triangulating pro-corporate Democrat or a heroic shatterer of glass ceilings—or both.

Nov 24, 2014 / Feature / Kathleen Geier, Joan Walsh, Jamelle Bouie, Doug Henwood, Heather Digby Parton, Steven Teles, and Richard Yeselson

Democrats: The Party of Pablum

Democrats: The Party of Pablum Democrats: The Party of Pablum

How else can we explain voters who chose Mitch McConnell senators and Elizabeth Warren policies?

Nov 11, 2014 / Feature / John Nichols

How the Democratic Party Lost Its Soul

How the Democratic Party Lost Its Soul How the Democratic Party Lost Its Soul

The trouble started when the party abandoned its working-class base.

Nov 11, 2014 / Feature / William Greider

What Would Bernie Do?

What Would Bernie Do? What Would Bernie Do?

It’s time to look past the Democratic Party for a truly progressive agenda.

Oct 23, 2014 / William Greider

Vanishing Act

Vanishing Act Vanishing Act

You’ve probably never heard of Martin J. Sklar. But you should have.

Oct 15, 2014 / Books & the Arts / James Livingston

New Deal Liberalism Lives On

New Deal Liberalism Lives On New Deal Liberalism Lives On

Don’t despair that a stalwart New Deal liberal is retiring; celebrate the arrival of a new generation of populist movements and the ascendant wing of the Democratic Party.

Sep 24, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Steven Salaita, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Academic Freedom

Steven Salaita, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Academic Freedom Steven Salaita, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Academic Freedom

Either neither of them have a place on college campuses, or both do. 

Sep 15, 2014 / Michelle Goldberg

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