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There’s No Such Thing as a Good Billionaire

Carl Beijer Jacobin
Democrats want us to believe that there is some cohort of “good billionaires” who can be relied upon to fight for political progress. But as the right-wing turn of tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk suggests, this is nonsense.

Running in Circles on Racial Justice

Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler LA Progressive
The reaction to racial justice is relentless and comes whenever strives are made to make the nation more inclusive.

A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle

T.J. Clark London Review of Books
If Trump is what the image-world has now revealed itself to be – if he’s the ‘society’ we have settled for, looming against us, cruel and false and ugly and determined to destroy – then what answer is left but a fight to the finish?

This Week in People’s History, Jan 22–28

Portside
Drawing of soldiers shooting demonstrators in St. Petersburg
The Long, Long, Road to Revolution (1905), ‘Can’t Nobody Lick Us’ (1940), Voter Suppression Meets Its Match (1965), Fluoride’s Safe to Drink, Period (1945), Designing the Trail of Tears (1825)

A Public Model for Home Insurance

Moira Birss, MacKenzie Marcelin Dissent Magazine
We must reimagine our disaster risk finance system so it reduces exposure and provides protection fairly.

For Reality

Bill McKibben The Crucial Years
A few thoughts on the last day of the old world

It Wasn’t Just Flawed Forecasts, Dishonesty Has Also Hurt Economists

Dean Baker Center for Economic and Policy Research
Economists have seriously failed the public in important areas over the last three decades. And these failures played a role in fostering the upward redistribution of income over the last four decades. People have a right to be angry.

Notes on Fighting Trumpism

Robin D. G. Kelley Boston Review
To mobilize the abandoned working class, we need to revive the idea of solidarity.