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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
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(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,
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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