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The Green New Deal in the Cities – Part 1: Boston

Jeremy Brecher Labor Network for Sustainability
Part 1 of “The Green New Deal in the Cities” provides an extended account of the Boston Green New Deal, perhaps the most comprehensive effort so far to apply Green New Deal principles in a major city.

Harassment Against Scientists Is Out of Control

Katelyn Jetelina Your Local Epdemiologist
A recent study surveyed 350 scientists about social media commentary: 2 out of 3 reported harassment related to comments made about the COVID-19 pandemic, 1 in 5 reported doxxing. It’s out of control.

Boris Kagarlitsky: My Peace Plan

Boris Kagarlitsky Russian Dissent
The left must offer a program of an honest peace without territorial conquest or any further aggressive policy, with remuneration for all destruction at the expense of those who unleashed this massacre.

‘Movement’ Judges Mete Out ‘Movement’ Justice

Robert L. Tsai and Mary Ziegler Politico
Movement judges as not interchangeable with partisan judges. Unlike a partisan judge, the movement judge will be tempted to advance a movement’s goals even when doing so may harm their political party’s electoral prospects.

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Moving Past Neoliberalism Is a Policy Project

Matt Stoller, David Dayen The American Prospect
In order to test whether improving people’s lives can convince them to support Democrats, you have to, well, improve people’s lives. Deepak Bhargava, Shahrzad Shams, and Harry Hanbury, in a piece called “The Death of ‘Deliverism,’” argued otherwise.