USA Today Magazine (May 2007) (PDF)
Socialism, the Left, and its future in the United States.
The Left in the US is in crisis. It has lost the broad support it once enjoyed in the working class and finds itself captive to the past—or, worse yet, to an impotent radicalism. It no longer offers working people a political outlet for their interests, but only a means of protest about issues that are not central to their lives.
America’s Left Has Taken a Wrong Turn