Progressive Politics from Memphis
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Is Capitalism Killing the COVID Response?
Three months in to the COVID-19 response and testing still hasn’t ramped up. Did a throw away answer reveal the holdup is profit for private labs?
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COVID Quarantine Book Review: How Democracies Die
How does a democratic nation fall into the hands of a autocrat? More importantly, how does it get out? That’s the topic of How Democracies Die.
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COVID Quarantine Book Review: Why We’re Polarized
Political polarization is the idea that the two main political schools of thought, Democrats and Republicans, are moving further away from each other. In this theory, that movement explains why there’s been a less willingness for compromise in American politics, or really, anything. It also explains some of the social sorting that has been going…
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That time the New York Times asked me a question
Sometimes organizations ask you to participate in a survey. Sometimes I feel like really giiving them a piece of my mind. This was one of those times.
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Automatic from la Papa
Pope Francis calls for universal access to income, housing, and more in an Easter message to social justice organizers In a signal of solidarity, Pope Francis sent a letter to members of popular movements around the world in support of their efforts to help the less fortunate. In the letter, the Pope points out that…
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COVID Quarantine Book Review: Hiding in Plain Sight
Ed. Note: I don’t normally do book reviews. Now that I have more time on my hands to read, I’ve been reading a lot. Now seems like as good a time as any to explore some of the bigger questions facing us. How did we get here? Where did the American experiment go so horribly…