Bernie Supporters, No Surrender
Morbid despair won’t get us anywhere — win or lose, we should fight to the end for Bernie’s campaign.
361 Articles by: Meagan Day
Meagan Day is an associate editor and former staff writer at Jacobin. She is the coauthor of Bigger than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism.
Joe Biden Is Not All There Mentally. Running Him for President Is Incredibly Dangerous.
Joe Biden’s boosters want to sell him as the safe bet against Donald Trump. But running a man in clear cognitive decline against a mean-spirited bully who relishes the exploitation of weakness is anything but safe — it would all but hand the election to Trump.
Why Bernie Won the California Primary
Bernie Sanders didn’t win California because it’s a liberal bastion and he’s “extremely liberal.” He won it because the state’s working class is tired of the bipartisan, pro-corporate agenda that threatens to transform California into a social dystopia — and they’re ready to fight back.
We’d Rather Deal With Joe Biden Than Amy Klobuchar
Dyed-in-the-wool neoliberal Amy Klobuchar was the most effective messenger for an anti–Bernie Sanders coalition. She would have made a worthy opponent — but party elites were too inept to seize the opportunity.
How Bernie Won the Las Vegas Strip
I organized workers on the Las Vegas strip for Bernie Sanders. I saw firsthand how his pro-worker platform and message of solidarity won the day, despite anti–Medicare for All scaremongering.
“This Is How We Thank The People Who Died For Democracy — By Letting Billionaires Buy The Presidency?”
We spoke with Anna Grabowski, whose disruption of a Michael Bloomberg rally yesterday has gone viral on social media. For Grabowski, standing up to Bloomberg is about defending democracy itself.
Michael Bloomberg’s Campaign Is an Insult to Democracy
When newly released audio of Michael Bloomberg defending his racist policing policies was circulated this week, the mainstream media had his back. Bloomberg is a billionaire who knows how to buy friends — if we aren’t vigilant, he’ll buy the presidency.
The Passion of Bernie’s Base Is the Path to Victory
Bernie Sanders’s greatest advantage is his intensely invested support base. Mainstream pundits are trying to reframe that passion as a drawback, but nurturing it is how we win.
Bernie Won Iowa
Bernie Sanders won Iowa. There are many powerful people who don’t want us to say these words. But we should say them without hesitation, because they’re true.
Bernie’s Executive Orders List Shows He Means Business
Presidential decrees are no panacea. But a Bernie Sanders administration could use executive orders to pursue three objectives: changing lives, winning hearts and minds, and stymieing enemies. The good news is, Team Bernie already has a roster in the works.
How Bernie’s Iowa Campaign Organized Immigrant Workers at the Factory Gates
The first caucus-goers in Iowa yesterday were immigrant workers at a meat processing plant — and they all voted for Bernie Sanders. Here’s how they were organized, and why it shows once again that Bernie’s campaign is like nothing we’ve seen before.
Why the Democratic Establishment Can’t Stand Rashida Tlaib
Rashida Tlaib doesn’t like Hillary Clinton, and Hillary Clinton certainly doesn’t like Rashida Tlaib. But the conflict isn’t just about personalities. It’s the inevitable result of the fact that the Democratic Party coalition contains forces whose interests are diametrically opposed to each other.
Bernie Sanders Can Exploit Donald Trump’s Weaknesses
Donald Trump has broken promises to leave Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid alone. This basic dishonesty leaves him vulnerable to attack — but only by Bernie Sanders, because Sanders has the longest and strongest record defending the exact programs Trump wants to cut.
How to Clean Up the Welfare State
Public programs in the United States are narrow, stingy, and complicated, making them politically vulnerable. A new paper from Matt Bruenig’s People’s Policy Project instructs us how to broaden, simplify, and improve them — to create a welfare state for which Americans will be willing to fight.
Joe Biden’s Checkered Ethical History Is Fair Game for Criticism
Joe Biden has a history of shady dealings, from protecting the interests of corporate donors to the business in Ukraine. Running him against our corrupt president would be a catastrophe.
How an Anti-Sexist Candidate Got Smeared as Sexist
The recent scandal alleging that Bernie Sanders told Elizabeth Warren a woman couldn’t beat Trump captured attention for days. The manufactured narrative shows how the media repeats cynical, bad-faith attacks until they get seen as fact.
Bernie Sanders Believes in Mass Politics — Something the New York Times Can’t Wrap Their Minds Around
The recent questioning of Bernie Sanders by the New York Times editorial board revealed that they see no difference between right-wing populism and democratic socialism. But Bernie wants to mobilize people to discipline the power of big business, not scapegoat the oppressed.
Social Security and Medicare Are Not Safe With Joe Biden
When we look at their long records, the truth is glaringly obvious: Social Security and Medicare are not safe in Joe Biden’s hands. They are in Bernie’s.
Solidarity Against Despair
A new study finds that higher union density corresponds to fewer deaths by overdose and suicide. Combatting “deaths of despair” is a tall order, but growing the labor movement and expanding unions’ culture of solidarity throughout our society can help.
The US Cannot Retaliate Against Iran’s Strikes in Iraq
There is only one morally justifiable response to tonight’s attack on US military bases, no matter what: the United States cannot escalate the conflict with Iran.