Green New Deal 
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SOURCE: Counterpunch
5/22/2020
Greening the Old New Deal
National service and a green new deal, with lessons from the old new deal, could be the first step in “civilianizing” our nation, and beyond recovery, enhancing the world’s prospects for health, justice, and sustainability.
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SOURCE: Dissent
4/2/2020
The Hot & Bothered Podcast: Beyond the New Deal
It’s impossible to contemplate a Green New Deal without sharpening our understanding of the original New Deal—its labor movement, its ambitious experiments, and its racial inequalities.
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
10/17/19
The Greening of the New Deal
by Steve Fraser
The Great Depression and the Climate Crisis, New Deals Then and Now.
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SOURCE: Huffington Post
6/9/2019
Eric Rauchway tracks the progress from The New Deal to The Green New Deal
His latest book, “Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt And The First Clash Over The New Deal” ― is an engaging, character-driven tour through the philosophical debates and political knife-fighting at the nadir of the Great Depression.
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SOURCE: Time
5/7/19
Hamburgers Have Been Conscripted Into the Fight Over the Green New Deal. The History of American Beef Shows Why
by Joshua Specht
Hamburgers are the newest front in the culture wars.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3/6/19
The New Deal Wasn’t What You Think
by Louis Hyman
If we are going to fund a Green New Deal, we need to acknowledge how the original actually worked.
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3/3/19
The English Diggers, the "Commons," and the Green New Deal
by Ed Simon
The idea of the “commons” as a space of collective ownership, responsibility, engagement, and possibility must be a metaphor that the left draws from rhetorically.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
2/19/19
A Centuries-Old Idea Could Revolutionize Climate Policy
The Green New Deal’s mastermind is a precocious New Yorker with big ambitions. Sound familiar?
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2/14/19
Is the Green New Deal Impossible?
by James Brewer Stewart
The Green New Dealers, the Abolitionists and the “Right Side of History”
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/11/19
Democrats are invoking FDR in their Green New Deal. It’s historically misleading.
by Charles Lane
Politically powerful as the invocation of America’s great collective deeds under Franklin D. Roosevelt might be, however, it is historically misleading — deeply so.
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SOURCE: Politico
12-19-2018
Here’s What Happened to the Last Green New Deal
by Michael Brenes
If progressives want to pass environmental legislation, they should pay attention to what happened 50 years ago.
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