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The Limits of Professional-Class Liberalism

1 month ago | bostonreview.net | Simon Torracinta |Brent Cebul |Lily Geismer |Dylan Gottlieb

Boston Review recently hosted a virtual roundtable featuring contributors to a new collection of essays, Mastery and Drift: Professional-Class Liberals since the 1960s, published by University of Chicago Press. A full video of the event is below. The transcript that follows is of the second half of the event, with moderated discussion. It has been lightly edited for clarity.
Por qué fracasó el bidenismo

Jan 24, 2025 | rebelion.org | Brent Cebul |Lily Geismer

Fuentes: Jacobin América Latina - Ilustración de Noah Pelletier. Traducción: Natalia López A pesar de sus elevadas ambiciones, cuatro años de enfoques profesional-gerenciales de las políticas de gobierno alejaron aún más a los demócratas de sus raíces en el New Deal. La rápida consolidación del establishment demócrata tras la candidatura presidencial de Joe Biden en marzo de 2020 —y contra la insurgencia de Bernie Sanders— fue una impresionante demostración de fuerza.
Why Bidenism Failed

Dec 16, 2024 | jacobin.com | Lily Geismer

The Democratic establishment’s swift consolidation behind Joe Biden’s presidential candidacy in March 2020 — and against Bernie Sanders’s insurgency — was an impressive show of strength. But the decision to back the seventy-seven-year-old DC insider also reflected fears about the inability of other leading Democrats to reach working-class voters. Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren: all were […] Sorry, but this article is available to subscribers only.
The Democrats’ “Opportunity” Pitch Is a Dead End

Dec 11, 2024 | jacobin.com | Lily Geismer

Kamala Harris’s decision to campaign on “the opportunity economy” was not the only reason that she failed to win support from working-class voters and lost the 2024 election. But it definitely didn’t help. Leading up to the election, most voters, especially working-class voters, cited deep dissatisfaction with the state of the economy as their number-one concern.
A New Suburban Politics

Sep 25, 2024 | dissentmagazine.org | Lily Geismer |Simon Torracinta |Jacqueline Jones |Andrew Elrod

A New Suburban Politics A more capacious suburban politics—beyond the myth of the white, affluent enclave—is fundamental to addressing the problems of racial segregation and economic inequality that shape American life. &squarf; Fall 2024 Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restriction, Racial Segregation, and Urban Inequalityby Colin GordonRussell Sage Foundation, 2023, 284 pp.
The History Behind America’s Affordable Housing Problem | TIME

Mar 25, 2024 | time.com | Lily Geismer

Past experience suggests it's time for the federal government to reconsider public housing.
What About Rural America?

Feb 28, 2024 | bostonreview.net | Lily Geismer

The hyperpolarization of the American political system threatens the long-term health of democracy. Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson have convinced me that it creates an important moment of opportunity for Democrats. But their increasingly “U-shaped” base poses a real danger, both for the party and the nation. Hacker and Pierson ask how Biden has been able to propose such a bold economic agenda despite growing reliance on affluent voters.
Campaign Staffers Are Undermining American Democracy

Jan 17, 2024 | znetwork.org | Lily Geismer

Review of Producing Politics: Inside the Exclusive Campaign World Where the Privileged Few Shape Politics for All of Us by Daniel Laurison (Beacon Press, 2022)The problems of American democracy have earned a great deal of attention recently, with commentators blaming everything from election manipulation and social media to economic instability.
Campaign Staffers Are Undermining American Democracy

Jan 17, 2024 | jacobin.com | Lily Geismer

The problems of American democracy have earned a great deal of attention recently, with commentators blaming everything from election manipulation and social media to economic instability. In Producing Politics, scholar Daniel Laurison locates the cause of democracy’s woes in a new place: the people who design and work on national political campaigns. If you come from a particular class background, you’ve probably met these people.
Campaign Staffers Are Undermining American Democracy

Jan 17, 2024 | msn.com | Lily Geismer