David Slavick

Lush Left Media — Funny, speaking truth-to-power, and cutting through the grift, rightward drift, and cultural rifts in left politics. Hosts Mary Angela Perna and David Slavick, producer of The Michael Brooks Show Lush Left Podcast will continue to bring the political commentary, biting humor, and top tier interviews with some of the smartest people on the left.

Washington Babylon — This installment of the Lazy Friday Playlist is dedicated to all the failed revolutions of recent history. It reminds us that music carries a message but not a movement. #Resistance is futile but music is what fuels our outrage weary souls.

The Michael Brooks Show — Weekly progressive political talk show with comedic sketches, commentary and A-list guests.

www.washingtonbabylon.com — A weekly show hosted by Ken Silverstein beloved founder, CEO and raconteur of Washington Babylon. Ken was the former Washington editor of Harper's, did a sentence at The Intercept, and has published to many places to name. This podcast like the site is irreverent, incisive, and viciously funny.

medium.com — As Liberal America finds themselves in the thralls of an obsession of Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election they must not lose sight of the more insidious politics that Putin's Russia exemplifies in global politics-the combination of oligarchy and nationalist reactionary politics.

thebaffler.com — What led to the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa? The African National Congress movement led by Nelson Mandela and other luminaries that pushed from the grassroots for liberation? Of course. A restive population committed to freedom and raising consciousness? South Africa had an opposition party during the apartheid era, and its failures should provide a lesson for American “resistance” politics today.

thirdway.org — The White House Summit on Nuclear Energy reinforces the important role nuclear power plays in providing reliable, zero emissions electricity. In the upcoming months with COP21 in Paris and a number of other large scale climate-centric events, there will be much discussion about the role of nuclear power in a climate change solution.

lushleft.com — Thomas Piketty is at it again in his blockbuster white paper " Brahmin Left vs Merchant Right: Rising Inequality and the Changing Structure of Political Conflict (Evidence from France, Britain and the US, 1948-2017). " The 174 page paper is takes at a given that the myth of upward mobility in France, Britain and the US is dead.

Millennials have much more radical conceptions of politics and economics shaped by their experiences. A majority of millennials fear that they will never achieve the American Dream. A 2016 Harvard IOP Poll found 51 percent of younger millennials oppose capitalism, 64% believe that women are disadvantaged in the workplace, and a plurality believes that they have no voice in government. The most recent poll found that millennials supported more protectionist trade policies. Millennial conceptions of capitalism if left unaddressed will result in more and more radical politics further from the center on both the right and the left. Reclaiming this generation for Democrats and ensuring political stability of our system as a whole will take more than a regurgitation of the existing Democratic platform. Policies that directly address the problems of modern capitalism are the only way to reclaim this generation. The politics of “good enough” are not enough to win the future. A generation of Democratic politics has been shaped in reaction to an increasingly radicalized right. Even many amongst the boldest of boomer generation have been jaded by compromise and the cognitive disenfranchisement of being the party of opposition rather than ideas.