This article appears in the Summer 2017 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. The road to a sustainable Democratic majority-nationally, locally, and in the states-must include much ...

Whatever you think of Sheryl Sandberg, her book Lean In achieved one very important objective: it exposed the deep class divide within American feminism. Elba Aquino, foreground, and Alex Nunez, ...

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We are the 99% was the rallying cry of the Occupy movement. While its usage has slipped since 2011, we’re starting to see efforts to revive the slogan as protests against Trump gather pace. This may ...

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High-class problems are situations in which you must select one option from an array of good ones. While the focus in this blog is on employment, high-class problems exist in many spheres of ...

So you're not a "10" in every which way. But you're probably pretty spectacular in some way, and definitely good enough in most areas of life. If ever there were a time to stop beating yourself up for ...