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Higher Education in the Age of Coronavirus

Besides overturning the very structure of higher education virtually overnight, COVID-19 will also accelerate a number of troubling longer-term trends.

Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

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Faculty voices must be heard as decisions are made about reopening.

Christopher J. Lee

Technological changes threaten the interests of students and teachers alike.

R. H. Lossin, Andy Battle

How can we “make the case” to a society that doesn’t have ears to hear it?

Adam Kotsko

University administrators must be held accountable for their decisions to reopen campuses.

Jeffrey C. Isaac

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Reclaiming Populism

A political appeal to “the people” is a central element of democratic societies. Can we imagine a revitalized, multiracial populist politics today?

Adom Getachew

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The Philosophy of Anger

There are two problems with anger: it is morally corrupting, and it is completely correct. 

Agnes Callard

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Taxing the Superrich

For the sake of justice and democracy, we need a progressive wealth tax.

Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman

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The American Corporation is in Crisis—Let's Rethink It

For decades, shareholder primacy has obscured the fact that employees should do well when businesses do well.

Lenore Palladino

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How Race Made the Opioid Crisis

The success of OxyContin hinged on racially bifurcated understandings of addiction. The fundamental division between “dope” and medicine, after all, has always been the race and class of users.

Donna Murch

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Finding the Future in Radical Rural America

It's time to rewrite the narrative of “Trump Country.” Rural places weren't always red, and many are turning increasingly blue.

Elizabeth Catte

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Why the Labor Movement Has Failed—And How to Fix It

Traditional worker organizing has failed on every level. But new approaches are finding success, pointing the way to a more just future.

Sarita Gupta, Stephen Lerner, Joseph A. McCartin

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Democracy's Dilemma

Democracies rely on the free exchange of ideas and information, but that freedom can also be weaponized to erode democratic debate. How can democratic societies protect—and protect themselves from—the free flow of digital information?

Henry Farrell, Bruce Schneier

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Economics After Neoliberalism

Contemporary economics is finally breaking free from its market fetishism, offering plenty of tools we can use to make society more inclusive.

Suresh Naidu, Dani Rodrik, Gabriel Zucman

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A Turning Point in Israel

The government’s new Nation State Law codifies prejudice, but therein lies a silver lining.

Odeh Bisharat

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MLK Now

Canonization has prevented a reckoning with the substance of King’s intellectual, ethical, and political commitments.

Brandon M. Terry

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All Reproduction Is Assisted

Feminism needs better reproductive strategies.

Merve Emre

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