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Returning to Laurel

Jonathan Odell The Progressive
A feel-good HGTV show sweeps a Southern town’s racist past, and gentrified present, under the rug.

‘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.

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.

Harassment Against Scientists Is Out of Control

Katelyn Jetelina Your Local Epidemiologist
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.

Ultra Violence

Nelson Lichtenstein Dissent Magazine
Rachel Maddow’s podcast tells the story of American Nazis in the 1940s. But the era’s real and lasting authoritarian danger came from the spectacular growth of a national security state.

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.
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