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If a manifesto isn’t angry, it must rely on humor. The Nap Minister Tricia Hersey's manifesto, 'Rest Is Resistance', struggles to compel one to inaction.

There is an old adage, if the people lead, the leaders will follow. “There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.” Gandhi said (probably…

Locked in a cycle of Slack callouts and healing retreats, left-wing groups — from reproductive rights to climate to racial and economic justice — have brought themselves to a grinding halt.

To a remarkable degree, party elites have sorted on abortion. When the House voted on the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2021, codifying the right to abortion prior to viability and thereafter if “continuation of the pregnancy would pose a risk to the pregnant patient’s life or health,” every Democrat but one was in favor, and every single Republican was opposed. The result was the same in the Senate, where a vote to advance the bill failed 49-51. The one Democrat who voted no in the House, the corrupt but loyal Henry Cuellar of Texas, faces a runoff challenger to his left, Jessica C...

Anarchists and others tend to argue that all "parliamentary" parties have in the past, and in the present, betrayed the working class; that Parliament is not…