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The Mainstream Press Is Failing America – and People Are Understandably Upset
by Rebecca Solnit - Guardian - 09-06-2024
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/06/trump-clinton-harris-election
How the Media Sanitizes Trump’s Insanity
The political press’s efforts to rationalize Trump’s incoherent statements are eroding our shared reality and threatening informed democracy.
by Parker Molloy - TNR - 09-04-2024
bit.ly/3XDbjT2
Do Mobile Phones Cause Brain Cancer? New Study Has Definitive Answers
by Michael Franco - NewAtlas.com - 09-04-2024
bit.ly/3AVH6pe
Red States Get 85% of the Benefit of Climate Law. Some Still Hate It.
by Kristi E. Swartz - truthout.org - 08-16-2924
https://truthout.org/articles/red-states-get-85-of-the-benefit-of-climate-law-some-still-hate-it/
California City’s $550M Deal with Chevron Could Be a National Model
California environmentalists have a new playbook for beating Big Oil.
by Will McCarthy - Politico - 09-03-2024
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/03/richmond-california-chevron-oil-00176922
US Appetite for Electricity Grew Massively in First Half of 2024. Solar Power Rose to the Occasion
by Dan Gearino - Inside Climate News - 09-02-2024
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29082024/inside-clean-energy-solar-electricity-growth/
Antibiotics Are Failing. The US Has a Plan to Launch a Research Renaissance.
But there might be global consequences.
by Jess Craig - vox.com - 08-16-2024
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/367247/antibiotic-resistance-bacteria-pasteur-act-big-pharma
Plunging Beneath the Freezing Sea to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
by Michael Franco - NewAtlas.com - 09-03-2024
bit.ly/4dQjMYs
Executive Excess 2024
The “Low Wage 100” corporations are enriching CEOs at the expense of workers and long-term investment.
by Sarah Anderson - Institute for Policy Studies - 08-29-2024
bit.ly/4ehbCsa
THE CANARY
Michael Lewis on Chris Mark of the Department of Labor
Washington Post - 09-03-2024
https://wapo.st/4dPYZV9 [Free gift article]
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RICHARD KAHLENBERG, senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute and nonresident scholar at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, is known as “the intellectual father of the economic integration movement” in K-12 schooling and “the nation’s chief proponent of class-based affirmative action in higher education.” He is the author, co-author, or editor of 18 books, including Why Labor Organizing Should Be a Civil Right; The Remedy: Class, Race, and Democracy; and his latest, EXCLUDED: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See.
Liberal Suburbs Have Their Own Border Wall
Residents of rich blue towns talk about inclusion but their laws do the opposite.
by Richard D. Kahlenberg - Atlantic - 07-23-2023
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/wealthy-liberal-suburbs-economic-segregation-scarsdale/674792/
The ‘New Redlining’ Is Deciding Who Lives in Your Neighborhood
If you care about social justice you have to care about zoning.
by Richard D. Kahlenberg - NYTimes - April 19 2021
bit.ly/3XyoxjJ [Free gift article]
You Don’t Have to Spare NIMBYs’ Feelings
Class bias is not in fact OK in housing.
by Richard D. Kahlenberg - Slate.com - 07-28-2023
https://slate.com/business/2023/07/class-bias-housing-nimby-yimby-atlantic-zoning.html
Why Is LA Still Letting Single-family Homeowners Block Solutions to Housing Crisis?
by Jason Ward - LATimes - February 1, 2024
https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2024/02/why-is-la-still-letting-single-family-homeowners-block.html
To Save California, Sacrifice Single-family Zoning
by The Times Editorial Board - LATimes - 08-22-2021
https://latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-08-22/editorial-sb9-sb10-california-housing
The Liberal Maverick Fighting Race-Based Affirmative Action
For decades Richard Kahlenberg has pushed for a class-conscious approach to college admissions. He may finally get his wish but it comes at a personal cost.
by Anemona Hartocollis – NYTimes - March 29 2023
bit.ly/4ggrgFO [Free gift article]
A Harvard Champion of Affirmative Action Accepts Reality
As the university’s longtime president, Derek Bok fought for racial preferences. Now he not only bows to the Supreme Court ruling but also offers wise ideas for making campuses truly diverse.
by Richard D. Kahlenberg – Washington Monthly - March 5 2024
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2024/03/05/a-harvard-champion-of-affirmative-action-accepts-reality/
Can Focusing on Class Instead of Race Solve Our Country’s Equity Issues?
by Paige Sutherland & Meghna Chakrabarti – On Point – 08-03-2023
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/08/03/can-class-based-preferences-over-race-solve-our-countrys-equity-issues
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