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Trump said yesterday that his administration is “developing a plan” to address the coronavirus. Tell that to the 140,000 dead and their grieving families. Or to vulnerable seniors. Or to communities of color who have experienced the heaviest loss of…
An inflection point, as this moment arguably is, requires not only big solutions, but also – and no less importantly – expansive and broadly constructed politics.
Once again we are going through another momentous re-imagining and remaking our society, economy, and culture. While it didn’t begin with the interlocking political, economic, and health crises that tightly grip the country or the sudden, sustained, and massive marches…
The principal role of the left is to lend its energy and ideas to the empowerment of much larger class and social constituencies. In doing so it gains in experience and understanding as well as earns its leadership credentials in…
As the pandemic invisibly and remorselessly cuts its way across the country, it creates a low, sometimes high grade, feeling of helplessness and despair as well as fear. And these feelings are only heightened by the massive incompetence, willful ignorance,…