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Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People's Politician
Dan Chiasson
2026
A young Bernie Sanders getting sworn in.

Bernie’s Burlington Was an Experiment in Practical Socialism

When Bernie Sanders was mayor of Burlington, the spirit of socialism showed up in everything from snowplows to poetry.
by Dan Chiasson, Natasha Hakimi Zapata via Jacobin
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on May 21, 2026
Bernie Sanders

Becoming Bernie

How a New Deal Brooklyn boyhood, and a certain Manhattan storefront, sent Senator Sanders to the Green Mountains that formed him.
by Dan Chiasson via Broadcast on February 5, 2026
Pen sketch of Robert Frost.

Frost at Midnight

A new volume of Robert Frost’s letters finds him at the height of his artistic powers while suffering an almost unimaginable series of losses.
by Dan Chiasson via New York Review of Books
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on November 24, 2021
Depiction of Henry Adams

What Henry Adams Understood About History’s Breaking Points

He devoted a lifetime to studying America’s foundation, witnessed its near-dissolution, and uncannily anticipated its evolution.
by Dan Chiasson via The New Yorker
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on November 30, 2020
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