2018: The Year of the Progressive

2018: The Year of the Progressive

John Nichols on politics, Erwin Chemerinsky on Obamacare, and Atossa Araxia Abrahamian on left internationalism.

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John Nichols presents the highlights of The Nation’s annual Progressive Honor Roll—our heroes in Congress, in state politics, and in leading protests at the border.

Also: Is Obamacare unconstitutional? A federal judge ruled last week that all of Obamacare violates the constitution. If he’s upheld by the Supreme Court, 20 million people will lose their insurance coverage. The case has the potent name Texas v. the United StatesErwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at UC Berkeley, explains why that ruling is likely to be rejected at the Supreme Court—by a vote of 9-0.

Plus: Right-wing authoritarians have been coordinating political campaigns and disrupting elections across national boundaries—a project masterminded by Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon. It’s time now for the left, especially the American left, to go on the offensive and reclaim its tradition of internationalism. Atossa Araxia Abrahamian reports on the project of Yanis Varoufakis—and Bernie Sanders—to organize a Progressive International.

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