The leftist Democratic Socialists of America was tiny before the 2016 election. Now, with 90,000 dues-paying members and four seats in Congress, the DSA is upending Democratic politics nationwide.
How socialism stopped being a dirty word for some voters - and started winning elections across America
Joshua Kluever, Binghamton University, State University of New York
May 5, 2021
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(THE CONVERSATION) The leftist Democratic Socialists of America, which helped congressional star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez get elected in 2018, looks to be a big political player again in New York City’s 2021 municipal elections.
The group has not yet endorsed anyone for mayor – the top prize in New York’s June 22 Democratic primaries. But all 51 city council seats are up for grabs this year, and the DSA has members running for six of them – including Queens public defender Tiffany Cabán and Brooklyn tenant activist Michael Hollingsworth.
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Published on January 20th, 2021
After Joe Biden finishes swearing his oath of office Wednesday, it appears he’ll only take half a breath before getting cracking on what his chief of staff Ron Klain calls “four overlapping and compounding crises” by issuing a 10-day run of executive orders. Many will necessarily be directed at upending actions taken by Donald J. Trump during his 1,461-day occupation of the White House. Because it
is Joe Biden, some orders will be directed specifically toward healing the nation’s divisions.
Mounted police at an antiwar protest in San Francisco, April 4, 1967.
By Meteor Blades
Every president since George Washington has issued executive orders although the term does not appear in the Constitution but is assumed a prerogative under executive power. Washington’s first such order in the autumn of 1789 was to declare a national day of thanksgiving. It wasn’t until Abraham Lincoln took office that the term “execut