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No BackSpace: In Primary Race, Voter Choice Could Thwart Ethnic Achievement

A growing base of Chinese voters creates a chance for an ethnic first in the contest for a Lower Manhattan Assembly seat. But with three Chinese candidates in the race,…

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No BackSpace: Civilian Complaint Review Board Staggers On

The mayor tabs a civil-rights lawyer to head the Civilian Complaint Review Board. The police unions cry out. The sequence suggests bold change is afoot. The record suggests otherwise, this…

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No BackSpace: How the Left Can Stop Defeating Itself in 5 Easy Steps

‘We should appeal to the nation’s fundamental altruism, explaining how all of us will benefit from a more inclusive America. Simply scapegoating the one percent just won’t cut it.’

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Upper-Middle-Class Socialists Beware: We Can’t Only Blame the 1 Percent

Joel Berg argues that the focus on the 1 percent, and the claim by Bernie Sanders that his backers represented grassroots America, both blur the realities of class, identity and…

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No BackSpace: How the Left Turns Off the Public and Turns On Itself

In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, Joel Berg takes a hard look at his allies on the Left—from Occupy to Bernie Bros—whose tactics are often less compelling than their…

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Jane Jacobs, Broken Windows and the Battle Over Public Space

Both conservative law-and-order and liberal-minded urban planning leave poor communities of color in the crosshairs. Public spaces, a theoretically shared space, become battlefields.

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No BackSpace: Can You Hear Us Now? How Verizon Strikers Came Through Loud and Clear

In multiple ways, the workers took on the company along the contested front between the new and old economy, and won.

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It’s Time for Bernie To Drop Out. No Really. This Time We Mean It.

The Vermont socialist may soon remove the capital ‘D’ that has been appended to his name over the course of the race, but his stubborn refusal to prematurely accept The…

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No BackSpace: Why Climate Change Divides the Labor Movement

It’s not that unions can’t get behind steps to save the planet. It’s that they can’t endorse policies that don’t also create good jobs.

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CityViews: Addressing School Inequities Means Admitting There’s a Shadow System for the Rich

Why is the New York City school system so diverse overall and so segregated on a school-by-school basis? You could blame residential segregation. But you’d be wrong.

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