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Nov 20, 2024 | 
dissentmagazine.org | Chris Maisano |Nick Serpe |Harold Meyerson |Sheri Berman
The Living Fraternity of Militants Jorge Semprún’s work captures a twentieth century of failed revolutions, lost utopias, and historical trauma of a scale that defies repression. ▪ Fall 2024 Jorge Semprún lived an uncommonly eventful life, even by the extreme standards of the twentieth century.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
journalofdemocracy.org | Sheri Berman
If mainstream parties don’t listen to voters, extremists will be rewarded at the ballot box. By Sheri BermanOctober 2024This essay is part of a package on the elections that mattered most in 2024. Across Europe, the rise of right-wing populists seemed at first to be what was most significant about the EU elections. But first appearances can deceive. In fact, beyond shifting some policy priorities, the EU elections will not on their own change much.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
persuasion.community | Sheri Berman
Conversations about immigration in European politics almost invariably center around questions of racism and xenophobia. This is missing critical context. It may surprise readers to learn, for instance, that racism in European countries has not been shown to correlate with the success of anti-immigrant, populist parties.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
journalofdemocracy.org | Sheri Berman
Select your citation format: MLA (Modern Language Association 8th edition)Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition (full note)APA (American Psychological Association 7th edition) Read the full essay here. In a democracy, it is the job of political parties to respond to the needs and demands of citizens.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
project-syndicate.org | Sheri Berman
NEW YORK – With 65 countries holding elections and more voters than ever going to the polls, 2024 has been called the “year of democracy.” Yet optimism about democracy is hard to find. Some democracies that emerged during the late twentieth century slid back toward autocracy, and many commentators worry about the future of democracy in places where it has long been taken for granted. In particular, surging support for right-wing populism in Western Europe has raised fears across the continent.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
qoshe.com | Sheri Berman
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
persuasion.community | Sheri Berman
Donald Trump’s irrelevance has been proclaimed many times over recent years—after his 2020 election loss, after the January 6th attack on the Capitol, and after the Republican Party’s disappointing 2022 midterm performance. And yet, ahead of the Republican National Convention in July, his sewing up of the party’s nomination for president is all but assured. Trump’s perseverance is matched by that of right-wing populist parties in Western Europe.
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Feb 11, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Sheri Berman
In late 2022, historian and Foreign Policy columnist Adam Tooze captured the zeitgeist when he wrote that the world is in the midst of a “polycrisis”—a time when “the shocks are disparate, but they interact so that the whole is even more overwhelming than the sum of the parts.” In late 2022, historian and Foreign Policy columnist Adam Tooze captured the zeitgeist when he wrote that the world is in the midst of a “polycrisis”—a time when “the shocks are disparate, but they interact so that the...
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
dissentmagazine.org | Sheri Berman |Andre Pagliarini |Zachariah Mampilly |Nick Serpe
Parties and Movements A roundtable discussion on the challenges that left-wing political formations face around the world. , , and ▪ Winter 2024 For many socialists, the classic political model comes from the left-wing parties grounded in workers’ movements that formed in Europe over a hundred years ago. Today, many of the left’s broadest goals, and its primary antagonists, remain the same. But the conditions under which socialists pursue those goals have changed drastically.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
dissentmagazine.org | Timothy Shenk |Sheri Berman |Andre Pagliarini |Zachariah Mampilly
A Left That Can Do Both There is no such thing as “the global left”—but we should still talk about it anyway. Introducing our Winter 2024 special section. ▪ Winter 2024 The most important point to make at the start of a feature on the global left is that there is no such thing as “the global left”—but we should still talk about it anyway. Workers of the world have not united, and neither has anyone else, which means that the global left remains an abstraction.
