{"article":{"id":266344,"heading":"What is the American Left?","author":"Norman Birnbaum","created":"2014-10-23 18:50:14","modified":"2014-10-23 18:50:14","last_modified":"Fri, 24 Oct 2014 01:50:14","article":"

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The greater part of the entire media system functions as if criticism were an eccentricity, if not a pathology... An American left has no difficulty sustaining itself but breakthroughs and ruptures which would alter public consciousness on a larger scale constitute very large tasks for the future.<\/p>\n","contact":"marc1seed@yahoo.com","link":"http:\/\/www.freembtranslations.net","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"The Black Congressional Caucus and the Progressive Caucus, and a handful of old and\r\nnew Senators (Warren of Masschusetts and Sanders of Vermont) represent continuity in articulating the traditions of the New Deal and the Great Society. So do a number of Governors...","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2014\/10\/266344.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}