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Paul Rogat Loeb
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Paul Loeb is the editor of The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times, whose wholly updated new edition has just been released after 128,000 copies in print. Jungmin Choi is a campaigner at World Without War, a South Korean antimilitarist organization based in Seoul. Adapted from Choi’s essay in The Impossible and an earlier version at WagingNonviolence.org. A shorter version appeared in The Nation
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Tesla Owners Against Elon—Why the Boycott Matters More Than Ever
I’ve been struggling to imagine Elon Musk might do if he gets his trillion-dollar payday. He could spend a million dollars a day for 3,000 years. Or, more realistically, $100 million a day for 30 years. He could spend the $290 million he invested in Trump’s election and do it 3,400 times,…
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Why Ketanji Brown Jackson Shouldn’t Hide Behind Judicial Neutrality
It’s tempting for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to hide her views, during her confirmation hearings, behind the image of judicial neutrality. That's what multiple recent nominees did, retreating into legalisms about how they support stare decisis, so won't overturn precedents, and are just, in…
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How Killing BBB Could End Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema’s Careers: Lessons from 2010
Holding the fate of Build Back Better (BBB) in their hands, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema should heed some lessons from 2010. When a small group of Democratic Senators so delayed and weakened Obamacare that they cratered Obama’s initially massive support, they also helped end all their own…
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Wanted: Another Bob Dole to Save Voting Rights
From the Salt Lake City Tribune and Common Dreams
Did you know Kansas Republican Senator Bob Dole helped save the Voting Rights Act? It was the 1982 renewal, two years before Dole became Senate Majority Leader, and 14 years before becoming the Republican presidential nominee. Dole…