What Bernie Sees in the New Deal
Bernie Sanders’s embrace of the New Deal legacy is an opportunity to dispel some pernicious historical myths about the New Deal’s relationship with socialism and its attitude toward the struggle for racial equality.
Articles by: Seth Ackerman
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Seth Ackerman is Jacobin's executive editor.
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