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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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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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October 2024
Why Kamala Harris Won’t Rebrand as a Populist
Many think Kamala Harris should embrace economic populism. But Harris is running a conservative campaign because, after decades of Democrats’ rightward…
Oct 31, 2024
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Neal Meyer
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Why Kamala Harris Won’t Rebrand as a Populist
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The Great Rawls Debate of 2024
Liberals go wrong in ignoring Marxism’s core insights about class. But the liberal political philosophy of John Rawls has something to offer Marxists as…
Oct 10, 2024
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Nick French
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The Great Rawls Debate of 2024
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September 2024
Socialists Can't Sit Out National Politics
It’s easy to feel like national politics is a dead end for the left. That’s why avoiding it and focusing instead on local politics and base building is…
Sep 20, 2024
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Neal Meyer
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Socialists Can't Sit Out National Politics
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Moral Relativism Can’t Justify Serious Political Commitment
Fighting for socialism means staying true to ambitious goals in the face of massive setbacks. Those who say morality is a matter of individual…
Sep 6, 2024
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Nick French
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Moral Relativism Can’t Justify Serious Political Commitment
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