The race to succeed retiring New York City Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez in the 7th District is leading to one of the top Democratic primaries in the five boroughs, pitting progressives against democratic socialists.
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Marcia Kramer,
CBS News,
31 May 2026
The traditional political alliances are frayed, at best, with socialists backing a billionaire and Trump supporting an immigrant.
In the years following, Beijing funded or armed fellow communists in Vietnam, North Korea, Burma, Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia, causing panic in Washington and other Western capitals as the ideological struggles of the Cold War rippled across Asia.
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Dhruv Tikekar,
CNN Money,
30 May 2026
During the McCarthy era, overreaching laws, surveillance, and public and private sector reprisals ostensibly targeted alleged communists.
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