A string of primary victories by DSA-backed candidates and other progressives—from New York to Michigan to Florida—is giving the Democratic left new leverage while putting its ambitious economic agenda back at the center of the party’s debate.
Our September/October issue went to electronic subscribers last week and is in in the mail to print subscribers now. We've just posted one of the two cover stories, Zelda Bronstein's California Yimby's: The Growth Machine's Shock Troops. Attendees of the YIMBYtown 2018 conference, which just got underway in D&S's hometown of Boston, may be interested in our take on the ostensibly progressive, yet pro-development, deregulatory movement. Getting below the surface may help us understand why Trump's HUD secretary, Ben Carson, seems to have endorsed Yimbyism.