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Featuring Lisa L. Miller on the false promise of checks and balances to stop Trump’s authoritarian assault, with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @samuelmoyn.bsky.social @lilygeismer.bsky.social @ericblanc.bsky.social @mayaschenwar.bsky.social
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May 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Our next issue is coming soon.
Featuring Lisa L. Miller on the false promise of checks and balances to stop Trump’s authoritarian assault, with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @samuelmoyn.bsky.social @lilygeismer.bsky.social @ericblanc.bsky.social @mayaschenwar.bsky.social
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Featuring Lisa L. Miller on the false promise of checks and balances to stop Trump’s authoritarian assault, with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @samuelmoyn.bsky.social @lilygeismer.bsky.social @ericblanc.bsky.social @mayaschenwar.bsky.social
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"...for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met."
Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time
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Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time
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Why Protests Should Be Promises
Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
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May 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"...for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met."
Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time
time.com/collections/...
Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time
time.com/collections/...
To understand the long arc that got us to this moment, please read this extraordinary, aching, furiously brilliant essay by @morefius.bsky.social—on the murderous nexus of exceptionalism, conspiracy, and capitalism at the heart of American politics
It is Americans’ exceptional exposure to capitalism that makes them exceptionally vulnerable to the opioid epidemic. And yet U.S. exceptionalism makes that fact so roundly impossible for the political establishment to acknowledge. Instead, for 30 years, it has focused—laserlike—on the border.
Blood Ties - Boston Review
The real story of pain in America.
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January 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
To understand the long arc that got us to this moment, please read this extraordinary, aching, furiously brilliant essay by @morefius.bsky.social—on the murderous nexus of exceptionalism, conspiracy, and capitalism at the heart of American politics
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"If our economic system cannot be made to sustain the very structures of social reproduction it makes essential to human flourishing, then we need new structures, or a new system."
Will Holub-Moorman reviews Melissa Kearney & M. E. O'Brien:
Will Holub-Moorman reviews Melissa Kearney & M. E. O'Brien:
What Are Families For? - Boston Review
A liberal economist and a family abolitionist agree: our economic system makes human flourishing depend on social units it can't sustain.
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October 6, 2023 at 7:36 PM
"If our economic system cannot be made to sustain the very structures of social reproduction it makes essential to human flourishing, then we need new structures, or a new system."
Will Holub-Moorman reviews Melissa Kearney & M. E. O'Brien:
Will Holub-Moorman reviews Melissa Kearney & M. E. O'Brien: