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The years from 1857 to 1861, with Dred Scott freshly inscribed as “the law of the land,” saw a wave of radical challenges to the power of the Supreme Court.Here’s

(24)In June 1862, for instance, Congress passed and Lincoln signed a bill banning slavery from the federal territories—a direct violation of the ruling in Dred Scott. The Court meekly acquiesced,

Serious point: Please do not accept a media frame that contrasts Sean McElwee, the smug kid who still "gets stuff done" through "coalition politics," and a feckless Bernie Left, which

1)My meta-take on the Bernie Sanders Era is now up at @jacobinmag.It's an attempt to take stock of both the real achievements and grim lessons of Bernie's two losing campaigns,

If I have one message for the Bernie left in the aftermath of the Democratic primary, it's that we need less angst about the 2020 election (in all directions!), and

I know this is might sound crazy, but what if the real dispute between Vox Media, Inc. and Jacobin is not about different "theories of politics," but different political interests

Why Trump succeeded in capturing the Republican Party in 2016, and why Bernie failed in 2020, in one stupid chart via https://news.gallup.com/poll/267047/americans-trust-mass-media-edges-down.aspxand yes, this also says a lot about the