Political Currents by Ross Barkan
The furor over DSA's Israel travel ban question illustrates a long-running hypocrisy in local Democratic politics
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Why we should stop idolizing the austerity-obsessed "pragmatists.'
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Aug 13 6
The rising progressive star, attempting to unseat a Massachusetts congressman, was hit with allegations of sexual impropriety.
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Aug 10 4
On the death of Pete Hamill, one of New York's great journalists and an irrepressible sentimentalist.
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Aug 7
A leading activist in the age of Black Lives Matter and a Bernie Sanders supporter was snubbed by almost everyone, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Aug 5
News organizations are running out of options.
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Aug 4
Nearly a half century later, there are disturbing echoes of a decade that almost doomed New York City. But there are real differences too.
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Jul 30 1
She's the most famous first-term House member in history. Some want her to seek a promotion very soon.
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Jul 27 2
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