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SOURCE: The Intercept
6/13/2022
Robert Kuttner: If Dems Don't Go Big, Country May Go Fascist
If the United States was lucky to avoid a fascist takeover in the 1930s, the country made much of its own luck through the New Deal.
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6/5/2022
Is the Republican Party Willing to Purge its Extremists?
by Jeff Kolnick
Beginning in the 1920s, the Democratic Party began the long, difficult, and politically costly process of dissociation from white supremacy. Do today's Republicans who claim to reject extremism have the courage to do the same?
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
6/1/2022
Rescuing Shirley Chisholm's Life from Symbolism
by Anastasia Curwood
Writing a biography of the Congresswoman and presidential candidate required working through the distinction between Shirley Chisholm the symbol and the much more complex reality of Shirley Chisholm the woman, to see how big trends in Black history unfolded at a human scale.
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SOURCE: CNN
5/20/2022
Are the Dems Doomed?
by Julian Zelizer
The Democrats are leaving themselves open to taking the blame at the polls for the war in Ukraine and high gas prices and the inevitable next wave of the COVID pandemic.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
5/20/2022
Nicole Hemmer Reviews Martin and Burns's "This Will Not Pass"
by Nicole Hemmer
The book by two political reporters portrays the dire contrast between a Republican Party willing to do anything to hold power between November 2020 and January 2021 and a Democratic Party enmeshed in business-as-usual.
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SOURCE: Salon
5/14/2022
We're Facing the Results of the Dems' Retreat from Secularism
by Jacques Berlinerblau
By trying to match the Republicans on bringing Christian faith into policy, Democrats abandoned the difficult but necessary struggles to define how a diverse society protects religious freedom for majority and minority faiths – and those of no faith.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
5/16/2022
Lily Geismer on the Dismal Legacy of the "New Democrats"
A reviewer calls a new book on the 1990s a sobering look at the effects of tying social policy to the market.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
5/5/2022
Why the End of Roe Isn't Likely to Energize the Democrats
by Natalie Shure
Until the Democratic Party and its pro-choice supporters decide to take action to fix the fact that abortion restrictions are already harming poor and working-class women, they are unlikely to win elections based on their nominal support for abortion rights.
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SOURCE: The Nation
4/20/2022
Lily Geismer: The Clinton Legacy is Well-Intentioned Failure
"I wanted to challenge the common view that the story of US politics after 1968 is solely about the rise of the right, and that the Democrats adopted the policies that they did as a way of playing electoral defense."
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SOURCE: New Left Review
3/7/2022
Thanatos Triumphant
by Mike Davis
Russian's invasion of Ukraine has revealed the nihilism of the world's leaders from Moscow to Washington, and the failure of the American left to develop a meaningful alternative to a global death-wish led by oligarchs.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3/1/2022
Can Biden Look to Truman for How to Get Presidency Unstuck?
by John Dickerson
Michael Kazin's new history of the Democratic Party hints at a possible path for Biden to manage Democratic dissention, Republican intransigence, and challenges domestic and international.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
2/15/2022
Michael Kazin Asks: What Defines the Democratic Party?
by Sam Rosenfield
Kazin's new history of the Democrats examines broad ideas of economic fairness that resonate with the party's faithful, but also the pattern of lurching compromise and triangulation that frustrates its progressive critics.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/23/2022
Giving up on Voting Rights Legislation Would be Unconscionable
by E.J. Dionne
Democratic politicians and their allies must commit to fighting for voting rights and stronger safeguards to the electoral process despite the crushing defeat in the effort to reform the filibuster.
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/9/2021
Why does Biden's Term Register as a Disappointment? We've Misread the Political Regime Cycle
by Corey Robin
The author was among those who thought Joe Biden might seize a "reconstructive moment" to push aside the social austerity politics of the Reagan Revolution. The problem hasn't been Biden's will, but the disproportionate obstructive power conservatives still hold.
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11/21/2021
For 2022, the Democrats Don't Have an Alternative to Embracing Left Populist Energy
by Wallace Hettle
The political field is tilted against the Democrats for the midterms and 2024; will the party embrace the energy of progressives and mobilize its voters the way that conservatives are successfully doing on the other side?
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SOURCE: The Guardian
11/8/2021
If the Dems Turn to the Center, They Will Lose to Trump
by Samuel Moyn
In the wake of the Virginia gubernatorial election, centrist Democrats have revived calls for austerity as the only safe electoral strategy. They will find out how wrong that analysis is if they are successful in pulling the Biden administration away from a broad agenda.
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SOURCE: NPR
10/10/2021
Dems' Unity Problems Nothing New
"Throughout its history, the party has featured dissent and even radical differences of viewpoint. It has been defined by these internal contrasts and conflicts as often as by its achievements."
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/22/2021
Why Are Moderate Dems Trying to Blow Up Biden's Economic Plan?
by Zachary D. Carter
Centrists' efforts to chisel away at the Build Back Better bill threaten its passage, its effectiveness, and the prospects of Democrats to hold power in the future. A biographer of John Maynard Keynes wonders why they're doing it.
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SOURCE: Dissent
8/30/2021
An American Conception of Justice
by Michael Kazin
While historians have demonstrated the racist operation of American institutions, it's important to recognize that those institutions have also been instruments for justice.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
7/8/2021
How Democrats Lost the Courts
"Some Democrats are starting to suspect that the story is simpler: They’ve been chumps. They have clung to norms Republicans long ago abandoned. They have championed moderates in order to appeal to their enemies, only to watch those moderates twist in the wind."
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