The Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, a Pritzker family hotel in Chicago with rooms listed at about $500 a night, hosted a Democratic Socialists of America panel on the group’s 2026 program, Workers Deserve More, on Friday. The conference has been held at this Hyatt every year since at least 2022. Outside, UNITE HERE Local 1 […] The post A $500-a-Night Hotel, a Socialist Panel, and Workers on the Picket Line appeared first on StoneZone .
The Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, a Pritzker family hotel in Chicago with rooms listed at about $500 a night, hosted a Democratic Socialists of America panel on the group’s 2026 program, Workers Deserve More, on Friday. The conference has been held at this Hyatt every year since at least 2022. Outside, UNITE HERE Local 1 hotel workers picketed in work uniforms. Signs read “No contract.” The panel was part of Socialism 2026, a four-day conference organized by Haymarket Books at the same hotel. Organizers advertised thousands of attendees and more than 100 sessions, including discussions of Marxism. The New York Post put attendance at more than 2,000. On-site standard tickets were $155. Rooms at the four-star hotel listed around…Open
Evan Barker’s debut book exposes the rot hollowing out the Democratic Party. The post Nothing Left (Except Corporate-Friendly Identity Politics) appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Nothing Left (Except Corporate-Friendly Identity Politics) Evan Barker’s debut book exposes the rot hollowing out the Democratic Party. One of the more striking developments in American politics over the past three decades has been the transformation of the Democratic Party from a big-tent movement built around working-class Americans into an elite-driven institution obsessed with diversity, equity, and inclusion. In Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative, Evan Barker, a former fundraiser for the party, offers readers a behind-the-scenes look at that evolution. Barker has always been someone at home on the…Open
Democratic socialism has moved away from the political fringe into the center of American politics, and this explainer breaks down what it is, where it came from, and why it's growing. NewsNation’s Elizabeth Prann, with analysis from Geoffrey Skelley and NewsNation's Steven Joachim, breaks down democratic socialism, from social democracy to state socialism, explaining why the DSA is a membership organization rather than a party, and traces the movement from the New Deal to its resurgence in the contemporary with help from prominent political figures such as Bernie Sanders, and AOC. 0:00 - What Is Democratic Socialism? 1:00 - Social Democracy Vs. State Socialism 2:23 - The Dsa Is Not A Political Party 3:14 - Where The Terms Get Blurred…
The Democratic Socialists of America have released a manifesto. It reeks of deeply dysfunctional infantilism. Within the scope of that program, Abdul El-Sayed just won—narrowly […] Source
By Susan Quinn America’s new leftists dream of a return to complete physical safety, freedom from all responsibility, and endless, effortless sustenance.
The late social philosopher was the purest expression of his times. The post Habermas’s Age appeared first on The American Conservative .
History Habermas’s Age The late social philosopher was the purest expression of his times. (Ayhan Simsek/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) The German social philosopher Jürgen Habemas, who AI assures us is “one of the most significant thinkers of the 20th and 21st centuries,” died in Starnberg in southern Germany on March 14, 2026, at the age of 96. Habermas’s working life spanned more than seventy years and from 1956, when he became the assistant of Theodor Adorno at the University of Frankfurt through his academic career at Frankfurt and Heidelberg, Habermas was closely associated with the Frankfurt School for…Open
Plus: staring Zoomers and a fresh war. The post Capitalism Has Its Uses—Bernie Says So appeared first on The American Conservative .
Political Asylum Capitalism Has Its Uses—Bernie Says So Plus: staring Zoomers and a fresh war. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) want to impose a 5 percent wealth tax on billionaires, which seems predictable enough. This tax would bring in $4.4 trillion over the next decade, apparently, which would then be passed along—minus administrative overhead, of course—to people in households making less than $150,000 a year. Sanders and Khanna, of course, won’t pocket any of the money themselves, but that’s okay. They already make $174,000 a year, hardly a princely sum these days, but more than most Americans take home.…Open
