As the word has gained popularity in the party, its meaning has become ever more opaque. Time to retire it.

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A Yale professor's transformation from sober academic to antitrust crusader

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Why the revolutionary left has always been bad news for democracy

The quest for radical equality in the American grain

Meet the first—and only—corporate executive to be charged in the opioid crisis.

On the growing appeal of socialism in an age of inequality

Inside DSA's struggle to move into the political mainstream

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The conservative media’s delirious efforts to conjure up a socialist nightmare

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His new book lacks a fundamental understanding of political-economic power.

“Non-Fiction,” his new film, is about getting by in a disrupted world.

The limits of a feminist politics of elite representation

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How sexism and machismo shaped a prestigious writing program