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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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Christopher J. Lee
R. H. Lossin, Andy Battle
Adam Kotsko
Jeffrey C. Isaac
Biden may have rejoined the Paris Agreement, but diplomacy isn’t enough. To decarbonize the economy, we must integrate bottom-up, local experimentation with top-down, global cooperation.
Charles Sabel, David G. Victor
If women’s suffrage was the battle of the twentieth century, women’s representation will be the battle of the twenty-first.
Jennifer M. Piscopo
A political appeal to “the people” is a central element of democratic societies. Can we imagine a revitalized, multiracial populist politics today?
Adom Getachew
There are two problems with anger: it is morally corrupting, and it is completely correct.
Agnes Callard
For the sake of justice and democracy, we need a progressive wealth tax.
Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman
For decades, shareholder primacy has obscured the fact that employees should do well when businesses do well.
Lenore Palladino
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
It's time to rewrite the narrative of “Trump Country.” Rural places weren't always red, and many are turning increasingly blue.
Elizabeth Catte
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
How can democratic societies protect—and protect themselves from—the free flow of digital information?
Henry Farrell, Bruce Schneier
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
The government’s new Nation State Law codifies prejudice, but therein lies a silver lining.
Odeh Bisharat
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