With the Democrats' progressive wing gaining ground, some on the left are eyeing up 2028 - and asking if AOC should be their candidate. Latest Politics Weekly America is a conversation with The Nation's @sunraysunray.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/14ZY...

AOC 2028: Could the US elect its first female president?

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For a decade, corporate Dems & liberals have soothed themselves by insisting Trump won ONLY because of racism, not also because voters got sick of corporate Dems promising hope & change - and then selling them out. In this important NYT clip, @sunraysunray.bsky.social destroys this argument.

Cuba's permanent representative to the United Nations tells @sunraysunray.bsky.social, "The future of Cuba belongs exclusively to the Cuban people." https://bit.ly/4yHMVA7

“Cuba Will Not Be Starved Into Submission”

A senior Cuban diplomat talks about the human cost of the US blockade, Cuba's economic liberalization, and the gains of the revolution that Havana says are not up for negotiation.

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"There are other capable progressives weighing a run in 2028," writes @sunraysunray.bsky.social. "However, none of them can do the two things AOC can do at once: run a serious national campaign as one of the most recognized figures in the country, and pull an entire movement into being behind it."

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should run for president | Bhaskar Sunkara

The congresswoman can run a serious national campaign on the left and pull a movement in behind it. She should get in early

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I wouldn't expect Douthat to interview a socialist, let alone that he would do it fairly and thoughtfully. But he did and it is worth a listen. Bhaskar Sunkara does a great job responding. Gift link @nytimes.com @sunraysunray.bsky.social

Opinion | A Vision of a ‘Society Without Capitalism’ (Gift Article)

Can democratic socialism redeem the left without destroying capitalism?

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"There is a moment of rupture. There is a point where you know it when you see it." Watch & listen to @lukewsavage.bsky.social in conversation with @sunraysunray.bsky.social on how a new generation is thinking about socialism and democracy today 🔗 perspectivesjournal.ca/socialism-af...

"Socialists were not wrong nor were they History's fools. They were people who looked at the world they had been given and decided it was not good enough, and they spent their energy trying to build something better." - By @sunraysunray.bsky.social

When young @sunraysunray.bsky.social started @jacobinmag.bsky.social old socialist heads doubted a socialist magazine would get very far. The kid was a Knicks fan, we reasoned, at least he's resilient. But the world has been changing! Take advantage of this May Day sale and subscribe today.

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The 2026 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture delivered by @sunraysunray.bsky.social is April 22 at @arts-tmu.bsky.social. Sponsored by @rosaluxnyc.bsky.social, it will give organizers, workers, and thinkers the blueprint for how socialist public policy works in the real world. 🎟️ ➡️ broadbentinstitute.ca

I miss blogs. As @sunraysunray.bsky.social writes, when independent blogging narrowed and news websites closed their comment sections, the debates didn’t vanish, they migrated into private channels or morphed into “quote-tweet pile-ons, where the incentive is attention through denunciation.”

Can Substack Recover the Blogosphere We Lost?

When I started Jacobin in 2010, my first milestone of the magazine...

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Latest Politics Weekly America is on the Trump movement's confusing attitude to free speech - I speak to @sunraysunray.bsky.social, president of The Nation magazine, which was denounced this week by JD Vance open.spotify.com/episode/4RRu...

What does Donald Trump think free speech means?

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New York: Scandinavia House will host @pelledragsted.bsky.social in conversation with @sunraysunray.bsky.social and @ericblanc.bsky.social on 8/5, as part of Pelle's book tour. Details and (free) registration: tinyurl.com/yuefrb2x Many thanks to @rosaluxnyc.bsky.social for supporting Pelle's tour.

Good piece by @sunraysunray.bsky.social in @theguardian.com on last night's victory for common sense justice. Hits the right tone of cautious optimism and is clear eyed about the road forward. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Zohran Mamdani offered New Yorkers a political revolution – and won | Bhaskar Sunkara

Now the New York mayoral candidate he needs to ensure an electoral win that translates into tangible improvements in people’s lives

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The success of @die-linke.de also gives hope in the US! Sofia Leonidakes from @dielinkebremen.bsky.social talked to @sunraysunray.bsky.social at our joint RLS NYC and @jacobinmag.bsky.social event about the strategy behind it.

“After attempting and failing to borrow its way out of the crisis, social democracy eventually responded to the charge that social democracy itself was at the root of the economic crisis by wholeheartedly agreeing.” Great work from @sunraysunray.bsky.social jacobin.com/2024/11/deal...

The Age of Class Dealignment

Over the course of decades, social democracy abandoned workers. Then workers abandoned social democracy.

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Very silly, since I've written extensively on the Marxist understanding of class & this essay is about 150 years of shifts in working-class parties 🧵 1. This is a quick use of exit polls with education as a proxy for class, since CNN doesn't ask people their relationship to the means of production.