The Making of a Leftist
My trajectory from teenage progressive to democratic socialist.
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FCIC; Library of Congress; Getty; Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic If Democracy Is Dying, Why Are Democrats So Complacent?
Democrats are unwilling to match their language of urgency with a strategy even remotely proportional to it.
Martin Barraud / Getty / Paul Spella / The Atlantic Liberals Are Choosing Convenience Over Workers
The Prop 22 episode reveals the tectonic shift undergone by American liberalism—and the Democratic Party—since the 1980s.
Spencer Platt / Getty Progressives Can’t Repeat the Mistakes of 2008
For the left to be effective in a post-Trump Washington, it must avoid the culture of deference that set in after Obama’s victory.
Erin Schaff / The New York Times / REDUX Why Liberals Pretend They Have No Power
Elite politicians invoke the rhetoric of national emergency only to behave like hapless passengers trapped aboard a sinking ship.
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