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Can the Left Be Happy?

A crucial moment in the development of modern left-wing culture arrived some time in 2013, when Ta-Nehisi Coates, reading books…

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A Watershed Moment for the Politics of Israel, Courtesy of Chuck Schumer

Republicans have long sought to make Israel a partisan issue, framing their party as the only one truly supportive of…

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Why Power Eludes the French Left

The signs that a protest is happening in Paris are nearly always the same: the quiet of blocked-off streets; the…

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Your Old 401(k): Out of Sight, Out of Mind and Out of Money

In 2024, more low-balance, forgotten 401(k)s and similar retirement plans could be forced into rollover accounts, which don’t benefit their…

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What’s Driving Former Progressives to the Right?

In a new essay in the progressive magazine In These Times, the writers Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet grapple with…

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How Geert Wilders Won

A country where depopulating rural areas are losing physicians, bus stops and elementary schools while urban areas thrive is fertile…

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Has Latin America Found Its Trump?

The election of Javier Milei, a wild-haired showboating weirdo with five cloned mastiffs and a habit of psychic communion with…

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What’s Happening in Germany Reveals the Strange State of the Left

On Monday morning, Sahra Wagenknecht, the most charismatic politician in Germany’s Left party, led an uprising against it. A longtime…

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Cornel West’s Improvisational Run for President: ‘It’s Jazz All the Way Down’

Is the celebrity professor’s candidacy a wild variable in the 2024 presidential campaign or performance art? Yes, he says.

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Leftist Upstart Threatens to Shake up German Politics With Her Own

Sahra Wagenknecht has announced a new party, which could become another populist force scrambling German politics.

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