Jamie Micah

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What It Means to Write for the Politically Homeless

In 2015, I was a progressive. I supported Bernie Sanders, believed I knew which side of history I stood on, and assumed the people standing next to me shared my values. Then I started talking to them.

What I discovered — slowly, then all at once — was that the 'left' I had imagined, and the 'left' that actually existed, were not the same thing. I had always known about right-wing antisemitism. That Read more of this blog post »
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