Can the democrats win the house

For decades center left parties in the West have been moving right on economic issues They have also become less oriented to the working class growing their support among the affluent and highly educated what economist Thomas Piketty has dubbed the Brahmin Left Until recently the U. Can the Democrats Win? booking S Democratic Party has been no exception leading to accusations from both left and right that it engages in culture wars at the expense of economics In this issue political scientists Jacob S Hacker and Paul Pierson say that trend is the Democrats have decisively broken with the politics of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama What explains the Democrats U turn on economics despite their growing reliance on affluent suburban voters Can it work as both an economic project and a way of building power And what does this transformation mean for the future of the party and a nation facing down democratic crisis Hacker and Pierson lead a forum with responses from Jared Abbott Larry Bartels Bryce Covert Ted Fertik Tim Sahay Heather Gautney Lily Geismer Representative Ro Khanna and Dorian Warren Thomas Ogorzalek Elsewhere in the issue Barnett R Rubin examines the relationship between Zionism and colonialism and what it means and doesn t mean for a political solution in Israel and Palestine We talk with Palestinian American poet Fady Joudah and feature two poems he wrote after October 7 Plus essays on Walter Rodney s radical legacy geopolitics amid war in Gaza and Full list of Jacob S Hacker and Paul Pierson lead a forum with Jared Abbott Larry M Bartels Bryce Covert Ted Fertik Tim Sahay Heather Gautney Lily Geismer Ro Khanna and Dorian Warren Thomas Ogorzalek plus work by Noaman G Ali Shozab Raza Abena Ampofoa Asare Rachel Ida Buff Helena Cobban Fady Joudah and Barnett R Rubin Can the Democrats Win