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Culture The Forward was a socialist mainstay — until it endorsed FDR. What changed?
Editor’s note: This story was originally published in 2020 as the fifth installment of a special series exploring the Forward’s election coverage throughout its 123-year history. We’ve republished it for Presidents Day; find earlier installments of the newsletter here. “Nothing in this campaign happened to change my mind about there being no difference between the…
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Culture From 1897 to 2020: Vote with fury, and with hope
This is the sixth installment of a special series exploring the Forward’s election coverage throughout its 123-year history. Click here to sign up to receive it through our email newsletter, and find our earlier installments here. On Oct. 13, 1897, six months after the Forward was founded, the fledgling paper issued its first major opinion…
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Culture ‘Sister!’: From the tenements to city council, how the Forward pushed for the women’s vote
This is the fourth installment of a special series exploring The Forward’s election coverage throughout its 123-year history. Click here to sign up to receive it through our email newsletter, and find our earlier installments here. October, 1918: As the Spanish Flu pandemic ravaged the United States and the midterm elections approached, The Forward attempted…
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Culture How the Forward, with humor and vehemence, taught its readers to vote
This is the third installment of a special series exploring The Forward’s election coverage throughout its 123-year history. Click here to sign up to receive it through our email newsletter, and find our earlier installments here. Look: Voting’s complicated. There are different deadlines to register depending on where you live, mixed messages about identification requirements…
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Culture In 2020, voter access is a defining issue — just like it was on the old Lower East Side
This is the second installment of a special series exploring The Forward’s election coverage throughout its 123-year history. Click here to sign up to receive it through our email newsletter, and find our first installment here. With President Trump repeatedly challenging the integrity of the 2020 balloting during his first debate with Vice President Joe…
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Culture 123 years of election coverage: What the vote means to American Jews
This is the first installment of a special series exploring The Forward’s election coverage since 1897. To get next week’s edition delivered to your inbox, click here to subscribe to The Forward’s free newsletter. For American Jews, the vote has always been a potent symbol. Many of our families came as immigrants from countries where…
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