#Inequality

if you’re in the UK looking at the US and thinking ‘we’re not like that here’, you’re mistaken. racism was central to the creation of much of Britain, and impacts
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Every year on Memorial Day I think about David Blight's 2001 book Race and Reunion. A former coworker / Civil War buff recommended it to me. Still gets less attention
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She’s getting at something that I’ve been turning around in my head for a while. Our culture venerates people “working hard,” but people should be allowed to live a *less
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While the face of coronavirus in the media has been disproportionately white, race data trickling out shows that the victims, particularly those dying from it, are disproportionately black. So much
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Health is the essential underpinning of productive, resilient and stable economies - @DrTedros, WHO DGhttp://www.healthnews.ng/health-is-the-essential-underpinning-of-productive-resilient-and-stable-economies-who-dg/ The DG of the World Hea
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Spent some time outlining Naomi's public evolution on race and activism through two years of Grand Slams in a sport filled with country club WASPshttps://twitter.com/TheUndefeated/status/1305150490913587200 The country may be overrun
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So, like a lot of you in BC I am trying to figure out who to vote for, or, frankly, whether to vote. at all I am depressed at what
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Britain was a much more equal society before Thatcher than it has been at any time since.In this short THREAD, I just want to try and quickly take stock of
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I'm regularly struck by how every day the Financial Times features advocacy for ideas that aren't stereotypically pro-business. Often the FT seems as concerned about climate change, wealth inequality, bad
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As the Derek Chauvin trial comes to a close, it is important to recognize that accountability for the killing of George Floyd, while necessary, will not have a broad effect
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Happy Friday! Since many of u noted that China is "different now" ie not as impoverished, I'd like to share my experiences on that front, bc while that's true, the
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The fundamental problem with this popular essay is the way it relies on First World panic—being haunted by the specter of becoming "like Pakistan or Belarus." The competent progressive state
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Thread in plain charts on how #Bitcoin captures the growth of a global underlying phenomenon: chaos.1/ Two major disruptive technological trends have exploded in the last decade: (A) Big
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So I recently started a new job as a politics reporter at Vox! (peep my recent clips!) Very excited about it, and I reckoned this is an opportune time to
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This is a harrowing time for the entire country.But it’s crucial to remember, even in a pandemic casteism never takes a break.The IIT Kharagpur prof who berated an entire class
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So rewatching that Bruenig Ingraham segment from the other night something that caught my attention the 2nd time around was how Ingraham tried to frame the debate in her monologue
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