The War against Gaza: How we got here, where we need to go: David Myers comments. Also: The left in Israel today.
Also: Joe Biden has historic achievements as president, but polls show him to be the candidate least able to defeat Donald Trump in the 2024 election. Democrats need someone else to run and an open primary. Harold Meyerson will argue that Biden must not run again.
Plus: the story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of the early 20th century. Rose Pastor Stokes has been forgotten, but Adam Hochschild tells her amazing story: his book about her is titled “Rebel Cinderella.”
How progressives won - in Chicago and Wisconsin: Harold Meyerson and John Nichols; plus Chris Lehmann on Trump
Low-Wage Workers' Victory in LA: Harold Meyerson; the Minor League Baseball Union: Kelly Candaele and Peter Dreier; Women v. Trump: Dahlia Lithwick
Billionaires and banks: Harold Meyerson; Women in 2023: Katha Pollitt; Vietnam Era Protest: Christian Appy
Banks and Democrats: Harold Meyerson; Masks and Covid: Gregg Gonsalves; Wisconsin votes: John Nichols
The Kamala Conundrum: Harold Meyerson; Covid: Gregg Gonsalves; The Oscars: John Powers
Palestinians and Liberal Zionism: Saree Makdisi; Black Studies: Kimberlé Crenshaw; Walmart: Rick Wartzman
Israel & American Jews: Harold Meyerson; Wisconsin & Politics: John Nichols; Blacks & the Constitution: Elie Mystal
The 1619 Project on Hulu: Robin Kelley; 'The Crown' on Netflix: Gary Younge; The Supremes: Erwin Chemerinsky
Biden and the crazies in the GOP-Harold Meyerson, Chris Lehmann; "The Warmth of Other Suns"-Isabel Wilkerson
The Debt Limit and the Constitution: Eric Foner; plus the 1619 Project, Victor Navasky Remembered, and Oliver Sacks 'Tripping in Topanga'
Red States and Green Energy: Harold Meyerson; Kyrsten Sinema and Ruben Gallego: Steve Phillips; UBI and LA: Sasha Abramsky
Bernie's Priorities: Harold Meyerson; UC Strike, Cont.: Nelson Lichtenstein; Abortion Voters: John Nichols; Happy in Denmark: Joshua Holland
Unions at Yale and UPS: Harold Meyerson; Coups in the US: Fintan O'Toole; "She Said": Katha Pollitt
The House Republican Mess: Harold Meyerson; plus Nelson Lichtenstein on the UC Strike Victory and Andrew Bacevich on "The Long War"
Best of 2022: Elie Mystal on the Constitution, Kelly Lytle Hernandez on 'Bad Mexicans,' Beverly Gage on the FBI
UC Strike Settlement? Nelson Lichtenstein; the WWI Xmas Truce: Adam Hochschild; Bob Dylan's Xmas: Sean Wilentz
Homelessness in LA: Harold Meyerson; On Strike at the U of Cal: Nelson Lichtenstein; plus Beverly Gage on J. Edgar Hoover
After Georgia: Harold Meyerson and Joan Walsh; the UC Strike: Nelson Lichtenstein
After DACA: Ahilan Arulanantham; Hoover's FBI: Beverly Gage; LA’s Grassroots Activists: Eliza Moreno
The U. of Calif. T.A. Strike: Harold Meyerson; plus Father Greg Boyle on Homeboy Industries
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