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Political Parties Are Not Illegal in the US
A popular argument on the left holds that political parties are essentially illegal in the US because they are so regulated that they can’t manage their…
May 8
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Neal Meyer
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Political Parties Are Not Illegal in the US
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April 2025
How Democrats Changed Their Social Base to Defend Their Neoliberal Program
Democrats’ right turn 30 years ago broke the party’s historic working-class base. As workers left the party, party leaders then treated those losses as…
Apr 22
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Neal Meyer
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How Democrats Changed Their Social Base to Defend Their Neoliberal Program
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March 2025
Worker-Led Unionism in the 21st Century
We interviewed Eric Blanc about his new book to discuss what it will take to organize workers on a mass scale and reverse the US labor movement’s long…
Mar 31
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Nick French
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Worker-Led Unionism in the 21st Century
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Can Public Opinion Help Stop Donald Trump?
Even authoritarian regimes fear losing popular support. That’s why winning the battle for hearts and minds will be key to stopping the new Trump regime.
Mar 18
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Neal Meyer
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Can Public Opinion Help Stop Donald Trump?
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February 2025
You’re Invited to a Panel on the US Labor Party
Democrats are MIA in the fight against Trump. Could labor provide a more compelling alternative?
Feb 14
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Nick French
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You’re Invited to a Panel on the US Labor Party
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Socialists Need to Plant a Flag
What right-wing Democrats — and Lenin — can teach the left about party building.
Feb 2
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Neal Meyer
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Socialists Need to Plant a Flag
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January 2025
Maybe We Shouldn’t Normalize AI Relationships
More and more people are building “relationships” with AI chatbot friends and lovers. It’s an extremely depressing sign of the times.
Jan 26
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Nick French
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Maybe We Shouldn’t Normalize AI Relationships
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The Time of Monsters and Modest Beginnings
Grant us the serenity to accept the things we can't (yet) change about the world, the courage to change the (small but important in the long term…
Jan 17
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Neal Meyer
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The Time of Monsters and Modest Beginnings
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December 2024
Left Notes’ 2024 in Review
This year was less a year for the record books and more a year for the dustbin of history — at least from the point of view of left-wing politics. But…
Dec 31, 2024
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Neal Meyer
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Nick French
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Left Notes’ 2024 in Review
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The Left Isn’t Building a Faction Within the Democrats
Recent actions by the most prominent left-wingers in Congress show that they do not want to build an organized faction inside the Democratic Party.
Dec 19, 2024
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Nick French
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The Left Isn’t Building a Faction Within the Democrats
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November 2024
This Is What Democracy Looks Like?
A manifestly unfair, hypocritical, atomized society is a perfect breeding ground for right-wing pathologies. Curing them means figuring out how to…
Nov 25, 2024
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Nick French
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This Is What Democracy Looks Like?
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It Wasn't Just a Bad Campaign
The era of neoliberalism spawned an illiberal strongman. Labor and the left need a deeper analysis of what went wrong and a new direction to recover.
Nov 7, 2024
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Neal Meyer
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It Wasn't Just a Bad Campaign
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