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Key to Strategy: Assess the Balance of Forces

Max Elbaum Convergence
A hard look at the balance of strengths between the MAGA and anti-MAGA blocs shows that pro-democracy forces must stretch for new levels of coordination and strategy.

Biden’s Supreme Court Pick

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
Appointing a centrist whom Republicans love is the wrong sort of bipartisanship. Naming a Supreme Court justice whom Republicans just love is the wrong sort of unity, and it would appall his own most loyal supporters.

Paul Farmer, Pioneer of Global Health, Dies at 62

Ellen Barry and Alex Traub The New York Times
As a medical student, Dr. Farmer decided to build a clinic in Haiti. It grew into a vast network serving some of the world’s poorest communities.

The Power of Recognizing Higher Ed Faculty as Working-Class

Helena Worthen Working Class Studies Association
Nearly 75% of faculty in higher education are precarious workers, more like restaurant and hospitality workers, gig performers, contract healthcare workers, and delivery drivers than the tenured professor.

Things Must Fundamentally Change

Anand Giridharadas Interview with David Sirota Daily Poster
It reminds me of the old saying from Paul Wellstone: “If we don’t fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don’t really stand for them.”
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