Students in big, urban cities like New York rely on public transportation to commute to school everyday. Getting to school shouldn’t require breaking the bank for working-class students.
A week after the disaster, the death toll from the Turkey-Syria earthquake has risen to 43,000, making it the fifth deadliest earthquake of the 21st century. Some experts expect the death toll to rise above 70,000, as rescue efforts wind down in Turkey and end without having begun in Syria. More than a million currently…
DSA members react to former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s ineffective mimic of the events of January 6th. DSA International Committee member Jana Silverman was in Brasilia to witness Lula’s inauguration on January 1st. It was a “moment of catharsis,” for Silverman and the “tens of thousands of people from around the country,” who gathered that…
One of the great and simultaneously terrible stories of American politics is that of the political comeback. Abraham Lincoln lost a race for the United States Senate only to be elected president two years later. Richard Nixon lost in the 1960 presidential election, then won the election of 1972. Ted Kennedy, who had planned to…