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Biden’s First Priority: Undo the Damage Done by Trump | Joe Biden Owes His Victory to the Left, No Matter What the Democratic Party Says

21 November 2020

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Biden’s First Priority: Undo the Damage Done by Trump

President Biden can make progressive appointments and executive actions—no matter who controls the Senate.

BY RICK PERLSTEIN

Joe Biden Owes His Victory to the Left, No Matter What the Democratic Party Says

Organizers, not consultants, delivered key states like Pennsylvania, Arizona and Georgia. Democrats ignore this reality at their peril.

BY REBECCA CHOWDHURY

The Women Activists Rejecting Biden’s Pro-War “Feminism”

Why anti-war feminists don’t want hawkish women like Michèle Flournoy in positions of power.

BY SARAH LAZARE

Biden Must End the War He Helped Start

Yemenis call on the president-elect to stop the onslaught.

BY SHIREEN AL-ADEIMI

The Message from this Election? Bring the “Ruckus on the Democratic Party.”

Don’t believe the establishment: The 2020 election results are a vindication of the Left’s inside-outside strategy.

BY JOEL BLEIFUSS

Democrats Are Scared to Use Their Best Leverage

They need to start holding hostage the things that Republicans hold dear

BY HAMILTON NOLAN

In a Functioning Democracy, Pelosi and Schumer Would Have Already Been Tossed from Democratic Leadership

Democratic Party leaders have clung to a failed centrist political strategy. It’s time to move on—by elevating progressives.

BY ELIAS ALSBERGAS

Dean Spade on How Mutual Aid Will Help Us Survive Disaster

We have to fundamentally reimagine community if we want to avoid “intensive, uneven suffering followed by species extinction.”

BY CLARA LIANG

The MAGA Army Tries to Drag America to Hell

Dear Leader Trump’s toy soldiers make one last stand on the streets of Washington, DC.

BY HAMILTON NOLAN

My Grueling Search for Asylum From an Undeclared War

A member of the Honduran resistance movement tells his story.

BY JOSÉ LÓPEZ

What You Need to Know About BDS

On the global, nonviolent movement for Palestinian freedom.

BY IN THESE TIMES EDITORS

Republicans Never Wanted a Fair Fight

Lessons from the tumultuous election in 2000 are still relevant 20 years later.

BY IN THESE TIMES EDITORS

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Millions of U.S Workers for Walmart, McDonald’s and Other Corporate Giants Rely on Food Stamps and Medicaid

A new report commissioned by Bernie Sanders shows that corporations are soaking up profits—while paying workers so little they depend on government assistance to survive.

BY JEFF SCHUHRKE


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