Bowman’s defeat is no doubt a loss for the Left, but wealthy suburbs are not fertile territory for socialists and progressives anyway. The race does not portend broader revolt against pro-Palestine politics or progressive politics more generally.
Tags: democrats, dsa, election, jamaal bowman, palestine, USAWhat started with 24 candidates had dwindled to only a handful by Super Tuesday. Now the race is between Biden, the pick of the party’s centrist leadership, and Sanders, an insurgent leftist. After Biden’s win in the Michigan primary, the party’s leadership is faced with a new challenge: whether to negotiate terms of cooperation, or try to isolate the left from the July convention and the campaign.
Tags: democrats, electionLast weekend, the Congressional Progressive Caucus met for its annual strategy conference in Baltimore. For the first time, a delegation of European left-wing parties organized by the New York office of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung attended the summit.
Tags: democratsThe closest commentator that the contemporary United States has to Mark Twain, satirist and television host Bill Maher, surveyed the sorry state of American politics midway through the 2016 election season and declared, “Our system sucks. The Constitution needs a Page One rewrite.” As Twain did in the 19th century, when he exposed the excesses […]
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