Workers won union recognition is some significant places in the past week. Harold Meyerson reports on interns and residents in Philadelphia joining the SEIU, a bus factory—in Georgia!—joining the Steelworkers, and dancers at a strip club in LA joining Actors Equity.
Plus: Progressives and Biden: what is to be done—about the 2024 election? Bhaskar Sunkara, president of The Nation, comments.
Also: Ron DeSantis is campaigning for president promising to “stop woke history.” That is, to stop teaching about slavery and its legacy of institutional racism. Adam Hochschild found the history guide DeSantis wants: the Hillsdale College “1776 Curriculum.” He reports on what’s in it —and what’s not.
Life After Super Tuesday: Harold Meyerson and Joan Walsh, plus D.D. Guttenplan on Bernie
What Bernie Has Already Won: Bob Borosage, plus Joan Walsh on Warren, & John Sayles
How to Fight Trump in the Red States: Jane Kleeb, plus Amy Wilentz: Don Junior Writes a Best-Seller
Bernie After New Hampshire: Harold Meyerson, plus Rick Hasen on election meltdowns
Life After Iowa: Harold Meyerson, plus Taylor Branch on MLK from Selma to Memphis
Dems are Winning Impeachment Politics: Meyerson; Coronavirus: Wasserstrom; The NFL & Trump: Lipsyte
Impeachment & Empiricism: Harold Meyerson; Report from Haiti: Amy Wilentz
Bernie v. Eliz. Warren w/Meyerson; Hong Kong Report w/Wasserstrom; "Born Slippy"-Tom Lutz
Trump, Iran, & the Democrats w/ Nichols; Politics in OC w/Arellano; plus Australia on Fire
Trump in 2020: Harold Meyerson; plus McKibben on Climate and Perlstein on Impeachment
2020 will Bring a Historic Defeat for the GOP: Stan Greenberg, plus Stacey Abrams
Does impeachment help the Democratic candidates? Harold Meyerson- plus Azadeh Moaveni on ISIS
Lessons for 2020 from the Dems' Victories in Virginia: Joan Walsh, plus Trump and War Criminals
Bernie talks politics-with John Nichols; plus Scorsese's "The Irishman": John Powers
Drafting Articles of Impeachment: for Trump, & Nixon: Rick Perlstein; plus John Powers: John LeCarre
Impeachment & the Democrats w/Meyerson; Sherrod Brown on Politics; Against Biden w/Guttenplan
Impeachment Day One w/Nichols; Deportation w/Hochschild; "The Great Eastern" w/Rodman
Senate Republicans and Impeachment; the Dilemma of Moderate Dems; Haiti Report
The Koch Brothers and Trump; How TV Made Trump; Ilhan Omar in Minneapolis
Trump's Favorite Justice: Clarence Thomas--Corey Robin; plus Katha Pollitt and Sasha Abramsky
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