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The changes of the early seventies marked a long-term Democratic shift in power from the white working class to the college-educated and minorities. It took several decades, but the two parties just about traded places. By the turn of the millennium, the Democrats were becoming the home of affluent professionals, while the Republicans were starting
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
One such think tank is Oakland-based Movement Generation, a grassroots laboratory that has devised an influential Just Transition organizing model and is thinking through (and, maybe more importantly,
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
If the left hopes to revive the idea of the working class as the leading force within a new counterhegemonic bloc, we will have to envision that class in a new way—intersectionally, if you will—as not restricted to the white, straight, male, majority-ethnicity, manufacturing and mining workers, but as encompassing all of these other occupations—pai
... See moreNancy Fraser • The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
The Common Purpose Project was another Media Matters–related attempt to coax the news narrative to the left, this time in coordination with the Obama White House. Started in 2009, it was a politically oriented tax-exempt 501(c)(4). Organizers held weekly meetings on Tuesdays at the Capitol Hilton with officials from a variety of familiar left-wing
... See moreSharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
To fight for mental and moral changes after policy is changed means fighting alongside growing benefits and
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Because the majority of Americans are not passionate about ideologies, it means that candidates from both parties are selected by a minority who is passionate. Because those who accept the predominant ideology are the ones voting, the candidates are increasingly being selected from the fringe. Particularly in congressional elections, the dedicated
... See moreGeorge Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
Dru Riley • Micro Private Equity: Building a Playbook, Abandoned Projects, Revenue-Based Financing
Yet the weakness of the moderates’ influence, this time on the Democratic side, was quickly revealed. Over the next few months, the news was monopolized by partisans on the left, who tried to redefine their party as champions of expanded and progressive government—with new entitlements for families, a “green new deal” for the world, a debt jubilee
... See moreNeil Howe • The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
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