Vulgar Marxism

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The state assemblywoman from Lower Manhattan is running for Congress as a working-class champion. But public records show that she pays her own staffers…
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The Lieutenant Governor performed best in the state's poor and working-class regions, where his party has been bleeding support for over a decade.
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Between 2008 and 2020, the share of working-class voters in the Democratic presidential primary shrank, while the share of affluent voters grew…
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Jaslin Kaur Discusses Surging Anti-Asian Violence in New York CityListen now (46 min) | As a wave of hate crimes sweeps over the Sikh community in East Queens, I spoke to the former city council candidate about how the…
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The chairman of New York's Democratic Party has angered black officials on Long Island with his support for Keith Corbett to replace Kathleen Rice in…
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The State Assembly just passed a bill requiring government contractors to disclose their wage gaps. But the chamber's own finances reveal deep…
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Capital has conquered the entire earth and turned towards the metaverse to sustain the logic of endless accumulation. But is there any real value in an…
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Ruy Teixeira on "The Emerging Democratic Majority" Twenty Years LaterListen now (48 min) | We discuss professional class hegemony within the Democratic Party, the morbid symptoms of neoliberalism, and if the coalition he…
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The government is punishing workers for its own failures of public health. But a number of elected progressives are speaking out against the policy.
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Blockbuster growth in the city's Asian communities prevented New York from losing a second congressional district in 2020. But the state's Democratic…
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America's second Catholic president has imposed sanctions on Afghanistan that defy the Church's teachings on the transcendent dignity of the human…
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Adams understands that even a pro-cop mayor isn’t necessarily safe from the NYPD. That’s a lesson the left would do well to remember.
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