Left-wing politics
fromThe Nation
5 days agoDemocratic Voters Are Clear: It's Time to Fight
Analilia Mejía won a New Jersey House seat as a progressive and immediately proposed raising the federal minimum wage to $25 an hour.
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Europe politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months agoIt is small, stable and a European success story. So why is Slovenia turning its back on liberalism? | Ana Schnabl
Slovenia's centre-left coalition led by Prime Minister Robert Golob will complete a full parliamentary term by March 2025 elections, an unusual achievement in the country's fragmented political system.
fromAdvocate.com
2 months agoWho is Daniel Biss, the Democrat who narrowly beat Gen-Z star Kat Abughazaleh in Illinois
A mathematician by training, he earned a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later taught at the University of Chicago before entering public office. He served in the Illinois House and Senate from 2011 to 2019, where he built a reputation as a policy-driven progressive focused on campaign finance reform, voting access, and structural changes to government.
SF politics
fromFast Company
4 months agoCan Zohran Mamdani deliver on NYC campaign promises? Experts weigh in
Mamdani campaigned on a big idea: shifting the power of government toward helping working class New Yorkers, rather than the wealthy.His platform - which includes free child care, free city bus service and a rent freeze for people living in rent stabilized apartments - excited voters in one of America's most expensive cities and made him a leading face of a Democratic Party searching for bright, new leaders during President Donald Trump's second term.
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