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SOURCE: Fast Company
3/29/2023
Howard Schultz Gets Roasted More than Starbucks Beans by Senators
by Kim Kelly
The CEO's reluctance to appear before a Senate Committee was made clear when Senator Bernie Sanders, labor law experts, and Starbucks workers confronted him with allegations that he violated labor laws in seeking to keep the coffee chain union-free.
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SOURCE: New York Times
2/12/2023
In a Final Act, Can Bernie Sanders Make Senate Hearings a Catalyst for Left Populism?
If the Vermont Senator has failed to win the presidency or to rally the Democratic establishment to his positions, he may yet be able to force CEOs to answer questions publicly about how their business practices harm workers, consumers, and the environment. Will it inspire a left turn in the electorate?
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SOURCE: The Hill
4/21/2021
Sanders, Jayapal Introduce Bill to Make College Tuition-Free for Many Americans
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) introduced legislation on Wednesday to make college tuition free for many Americans, a policy that would be paid for by a tax on Wall Street.
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SOURCE: Public Books
10/23/2020
Thomas Frank On How Populism Can Save America
"The consensus intellectuals of the ’50s plucked the term from 19th-century obscurity and redefined it. It is their redefinition that is still with us today."
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7/3/2020
Will Capitalist Consumer Culture Absorb Another Generation of Protest?
by Walter G. Moss
Do recent protests against the symbols of racism--monuments and statues--reflect a political movement that can easily be absorbed by today's multicultural corporations, or will that energy sustain a push to fundamentally reform American capitalism too?
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SOURCE: NPR
4/17/2020
Did Gender Keep Democratic Women From Winning The Presidential Primary?
Gender was definitely a factor in this year's Democratic primaries. How could it not be after what the party has seen over the past four years? But the ways in which attitudes about gender impacted the outcome are varied and, of course, more than a bit complicated.
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SOURCE: Newsweek
4/14/2020
Bernie Offered Us the Future. Why did He Fail—and What did We Forfeit?
by Moshik Temkin
Because his support is so concentrated among the young, and because the problems he vowed to fight will only get worse whether Trump or Biden wins, this movement is only likely to grow, and its next leaders might eventually succeed where he failed.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/9/2020
Bernie Sanders’s Campaign is Over, But His Populist Ideas Will Survive
by Robert Mitchell
Suspending his presidential campaign might be the best way to advance Sanders’s movement, but it could leave some supporters bitter.
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3/8/2020
Updated 4/15: Bernie Sanders Ends 2020 Campaign, Historians Respond
by HNN Staff
Online discussion of Sanders's decision to end his campaign and endorse Joe Biden, and what's next for the Democrats.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
3/30/2020
Reality Has Endorsed Bernie Sanders
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
American life has been suddenly and dramatically upended, and, when things are turned upside down, the bottom is brought to the surface and exposed to the light.
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3/27/2020
A Word to My Fellow Progressives: Lessons of the 2020 Democratic Primary
by Andrew Meyer
This year feels to many progressives like a lost opportunity. With Joseph Biden seemingly certain to win the Democratic nomiatuion, what can progressives learn and apply to the future from the experience of 2020?
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/18/2020
Campaign Signals Sanders May Be Open To Exit
New signs emerged of communication between the two camps as some Democrats hoped for a swift end to a bruising primary.
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SOURCE: GEN
3/18/2020
The Generational Dispute Over the ‘Safe’ Choice for President
by David Walsh
Millennials and Generation Z may have more in common with their grandparents and great-grandparents than their parents.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/14/2020
Why Sanders Isn’t Winning Over Black Voters
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
For millions, even when government “works” it is not working for them.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/16/2020
Did America Misjudge Bernie Sanders? Or Did He Misjudge America?
by Robert Draper
Throughout his insurgent campaign, he remained steadfast in his radical vision—and forced a reckoning for the Democratic Party.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/15/2020
Winners and Losers from the Bernie Sanders-Joe Biden Debate
Biden drove home the point that he would be a steady, pragmatic hand at an uncertain time.
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SOURCE: Politico
Bye Bye Bernie
According to our experts, Bernie Sanders may not have won the debate, or the 2020 Democratic primary. But he changed his party, and Joe Biden, for the better.
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3/15/2020
Historians on Bernie and Biden's Head to Head Debate
What do historians think about the first one on one Democratic debate?
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SOURCE: Politico
3/15/2020
Sanders Bets on Biden Debate Implosion
His rivals have been waiting for more than a year for Biden to wilt under pressure. Sunday’s debate looks like Sanders’ last hope.
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3/15/2020
Do We Want the Progressive Sanders or the Pragmatist Biden?
by Walter G. Moss
Because his pragmatic style matches more the American tradition, Biden has a better chance of unifying our nation and delivering positive long-range results.
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