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Can Rob Quist’s Full-Throated Populism Win Back Rural America?

Can Rob Quist’s Full-Throated Populism Win Back Rural America? Can Rob Quist’s Full-Throated Populism Win Back Rural America?

The banjo-playing, cowboy hat-wearing folk singer is battling a tech billionaire—and doing it the Montana way.

May 17, 2017 / Feature / D.D. Guttenplan

Tom Perriello Makes a Populist Stand

Tom Perriello Makes a Populist Stand Tom Perriello Makes a Populist Stand

The former congressman is running for governor of Virginia—and taking on the Democratic establishment.

May 16, 2017 / Feature / George Zornick

Jeff Merkley

Can Senator Jeff Merkley Help Democrats Reclaim the Health-Care Narrative? Can Senator Jeff Merkley Help Democrats Reclaim the Health-Care Narrative?

The soft-spoken Oregonian is a relentless legislator and a staunch progressive—and his rise comes at a crucial time.

May 16, 2017 / Feature / Zoë Carpenter

Pramila Jayapal

Pramila Jayapal Wants Democrats to Know That Resistance Is Not Enough Pramila Jayapal Wants Democrats to Know That Resistance Is Not Enough

The freshman congresswoman from Washington thinks that this is the time when progressive ideas can go mainstream.

May 15, 2017 / Feature / Joan Walsh

The Government Wouldn’t Rein In the Banks’ Predatory Practices—Until These Tellers Stepped In

The Government Wouldn’t Rein In the Banks’ Predatory Practices—Until These Tellers Stepped In The Government Wouldn’t Rein In the Banks’ Predatory Practices—Until These Tellers Stepped In

The Committee for Better Banks is organizing to change the banking industry from the inside out.

May 8, 2017 / Feature / Jimmy Tobias

Economic Democracy and the Billion-Dollar Co-op

Economic Democracy and the Billion-Dollar Co-op Economic Democracy and the Billion-Dollar Co-op

Is our energy grid a sleeping giant of collective ownership?

May 8, 2017 / Feature / Nathan Schneider

Trump campaign yard sign

Trumpism: It’s Coming From the Suburbs Trumpism: It’s Coming From the Suburbs

Racism, fascism, and working-class Americans.

May 8, 2017 / Feature / Jesse A. Myerson

The Rock-Star Appeal of Modern Monetary Theory

The Rock-Star Appeal of Modern Monetary Theory The Rock-Star Appeal of Modern Monetary Theory

The Sanders generation and a new economic idea.

May 8, 2017 / Feature / Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

What Will Kill Neoliberalism?

What Will Kill Neoliberalism? What Will Kill Neoliberalism?

A roundtable on its fate.

May 4, 2017 / Feature / Joelle Gamble, Paul Mason, Bryce Covert, William Darity Jr., and Peter Barnes

Carrier workers

Back at the Carrier Plant, Workers Are Still Fighting on Their Own Back at the Carrier Plant, Workers Are Still Fighting on Their Own

Trump’s tax break was not enough. Truly addressing the plight of the American working class means confronting the problems of global capitalism.

Apr 20, 2017 / Feature / Sarah Jaffe

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