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Democratic socialist since 1954.

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Our summer issue on America at 250 is out now.

In our special section, we have approached the country's anniversary from our perspective on the left. What can it mean to us?

Featuring cover art by @thetolerantweft

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At a time when a rhetoric of American greatness was being deployed to break strikes, disrupt public demonstrations, and prosecute dissenters, Eugene V. Debs refused to cede liberty to his reactionary opponents.

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There is another American political tradition that we can draw on in this moment—an emancipatory, democratic tradition that has driven major transformations of our country through bottom-up, movement-driven struggle.

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What kind of government have we inherited (and amended) from America’s founders?

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By refusing to cede the spirit of the Declaration to the economic and political elites of his day, Eugene V. Debs played a crucial role in advancing workers’ rights, the right to dissent, and the right to protest in time of war.

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“Is the founding some kind of affirmative, usable past we can hold on to, or something that enchains and continuously drags us backward?”

Read the transcript of our recent event on “America at 250” in partnership with @BostonReview: https://t.co/iu9N2jFN2C

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Our summer issue on America at 250 is out now. In our special section, we have approached the country's anniversary from our perspective on the left. What can it mean to us?

Subscribe today with promo code SUM26 for 25 percent off: https://t.co/8JzJDol6xB

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“We can say Trump is flagrantly violating the law, but the law has also been shifting to make it plausible under the Supreme Court’s interpretations that he’s not actually flagrantly violating the law.”

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Shows about the entertainment business have become a fixture in prestige comedy. But a truly good show-within-a-show encourages us to look outside the show we think we’re watching toward the conditions of its making.

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U.S. independence once stood for the idea that all people have the right to govern themselves and to fundamentally change the conditions of their own societies. But has America’s revolutionary tradition lost its global significance?

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This July 4, Trump and his supporters will seek to conscript “the spirit of ’76” in the name of his authoritarian, gold-plated vision. Yet Eugene V. Debs reminds us that the tradition of radical dissent in the United States has always been contested

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The left’s recent wins in the New York Democratic primaries make plain the leadership role Mamdani has carved out for himself—one that may well extend beyond the five boroughs.

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Gunther Anders published this hauntological prefiguration in a 1956 issue of Dissent, but it remains fascinating and resonant in the AI presents/prescience. A must-read.

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What made Thomas Kinkade’s paintings so popular? His art shows conservatives a world they have already won.

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The semiquincentennial celebrations planned by the White House will not be a demonstration of unity. They will celebrate the domination of one part of the country over the other.

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Our Summer 2026 issue on America at 250 is out now. In our special section, we approached the country's anniversary from our perspective on the left. What can it mean to us?

Subscribe today with promo code SUM26 for 25 percent off: https://t.co/wBgciMJUVk

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New Declarations | Adom Getachew

By invoking the American Revolution, twentieth-century anticolonial figures connected their project with the movement for civil rights in the United States.
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We have probably the most difficult-to-amend Constitution in the world. On the other hand, we amend it all the time through the courts—which have an enormous amount of flexibility.

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Over the course of Hacks’ run, Einbinder has become one of the most outspoken voices in American film and TV on Palestine. Several cast members and producers have also spoken out against ICE and in support of socialist LA mayoral candidate Nithya Raman.

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“Where liberty is not, Socialism has a mission,” said Eugene V. Debs, “and, therefore, the mission of Socialism is as wide as the world.”

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Last week's results are the clearest sign yet that the Democratic Party is in the midst of a crisis. A long-simmering conflict between the represented and their representatives, kept in check for years by fear of the Republican Party, has now boiled over.

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