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Inequities exposed: How COVID-19 widened racial inequities in education, health, and the workforce

https://www.epi.org/publication/covid-19-inequities-wilson-testimony/

Brooks OPEN DEBATE The Future of American Liberalism open debate

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/opinion/biden-fdr.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/

John Lewis farewell

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/opinion/john-lewis-civil-rights-america.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage Good Trouble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_oEkOdIXdo

“Dharma in America: A Short History of Hindu-Jain Diaspora,” “Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities: Sustenance and Sustainability”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/opinion/jainism-nonviolence-death.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Policing Traffic stop disparity and more

https://www.city-journal.org/repudiate-the-anti-police-narrative https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2020/06/11/to-add-value-to-black-communities-we-must-defund-the-police-and-prison-systems/ Reform the Police? Guess Who Funds My State’s Officials https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/opinion/sunday/police-reform-defund-politicians.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage Possible to Reform the PoliceHow to end the racial disparity in vehicle stops. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/opinion/police-reform-biden.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

7 Inequities: A Weeklong Look at the Biases Women Face

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/us/7-inequities-a-weeklong-look-at-the-biases-women-face.html?action=click&algo=als_engaged_control_desk_filter&block=editors_picks_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=239511406&impression_id=a4147450-d1d3-11ea-b2d4-f7cc65cfda46&index=0&pgtype=Article&region=ccolumn&req_id=764937247&surface=home-featured&action=click&module=editorContent&pgtype=Article&region=CompanionColumn&contentCollection=Trending

Strongest Evidence Yet Shows Air Pollution Kills

http://links.email.scientificamerican.com/servlet/MailView?ms=NjgxMTY5MDUS1&r=MTI4NDMxMTU0NzI4S0&j=MTkyNDA2MzY1OQS2&mt=1&rt=0

How to Hold Big Tech’s Feet to the Fire

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/opinion/tech-ceo-hearing-congress.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/opinion/tech-ceo-hearing-congress.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage they made billions https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/technology/tech-company-earnings-amazon-apple-facebook-google.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

We Made a Mistake With Masks. Now It Could Be Tests.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/opinion/coronavirus-testing-antigen-pooling.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

America Fails the Marshmallow Test

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/opinion/coronavirus-reopening-marshmallow-test.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/opinion/us-republicans-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Gold or Salmon

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/climate/pebble-mine-alaska-environment.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

That Flour You Bought Could Be the Future of the U.S. Economy

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/opinion/us-grain-industry.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

The great climate migration has begun

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/23/magazine/climate-migration.html?searchResultPosition=1

The Amazon Critic Who Saw Its Power From the Inside

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/technology/amazon-critic-tim-bray.html

Breathe Better With These Nine Exercises

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/at-home/coronavirus-breathing-exercises.html?surface=home-living-vi&fellback=false&req_id=114648067&algo=identity&imp_id=316882862&action=click&module=Smarter%20Living&pgtype=Homepage

Biden Plan: Rebooting the Covid economy Green style/Problems

https://www.wri.org/blog/2020/03/coronavirus-rebooting-US-economy https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/opinion/pipelines-clean-energy.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/opinion/biden-climate-change.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/23/magazine/climate-migration.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage

The Real White Fragility Does the white upper class feel exhausted and oppressed by meritocracy? Peter Turchin cycles

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/opinion/sunday/white-fragility-meritocracy.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage The Impending Crisis  Peter Turchin  / Secular ages of discord http://peterturchin.com/age-of-discord/

White Fragility’ Is Everywhere. But Does Antiracism Training Work?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/magazine/white-fragility-robin-diangelo.html?action=click&algo=als_engaged_control_desk_filter&block=editors_picks_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=487643917&impression_id=775838027&index=1&pgtype=Article&region=footer&req_id=176647222&surface=home-featured

Learning to Love State Capitalism & Dambisa Moyo

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/07/learning-to-love-state-capitalism.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/opinion/coronavirus-economy.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

I’m a Black Police Officer. Here’s How to Change the System.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/opinion/police-funding-defund.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Are We Overreacting on Climate Change?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/books/review/bjorn-lomborg-false-alarm-joseph-stiglitz.html The Nation-State: The Common Root of Our Failure to Deal with High Global Inequality and Climate Change https://promarket.org/2019/03/21/nation-state-common-root-of-our-failure-deal-with-high-global-inequality-and-climate-change/

Why the Left Can’t Stand The New York Times/Columbia Journalism Review

https://www.cjr.org/special_report/why-the-left-cant-stand-the-new-york-times.php

How Exercise May Bolster the Brain

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/well/move/how-exercise-may-bolster-the-brain.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage&contentCollection=AtHome&package_index=0

How do taxes and spending influence inequality explorer 475

https://www.epi.org/explorer

The Pandemic Could Get Much, Much Worse. We Must Act Now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/opinion/coronavirus-shutdown.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Let Them Eat TWEETS

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/books/review/let-them-eat-tweets-jacob-s-hacker-paul-pierson.html

America Drank Away Its Children’s Future

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/opinion/coronavirus-schools-bars.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

A record 5.4 million people lost their health coverage amid the pandemic, a study found.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/world/coronavirus-updates.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage#link-4a45abca

Fracking Firms Fail, Rewarding Executives and Raising Climate Fears

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/12/climate/oil-fracking-bankruptcy-methane-executive-pay.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/17/eaaz5120 https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/understanding-global-warming-potentials

China as Economic Bogeyman

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/west-should-stop-criticizing-china-industrial-policy-by-dani-rodrik-2020-07?utm_source=Project+Syndicate+Newsletter&utm_campaign=373f93aa95-sunday_newsletter_12_07_2020&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-373f93aa95-106319903&mc_cid=373f93aa95&mc_eid=4868cc572a https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/new-fiscal-constitution-job-guarantee-by-mariana-mazzucato-and-robert-skidelsky-2020-07?barrier=accesspaylog

A Trump Tax Break Is Not Spurring Job Creation, Study Finds

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/business/trump-opportunity-zone-jobs.html

Trump Would Like to See You Now open everything up? KALECKI It’s not because it’s safe to do so.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/opinion/trump-schools-reopening.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/opinion/republicans-keep-flunking-microbe-economics.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage https://nathantankus.substack.com/p/where-do-profits-come-from https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/opinion/general-strike.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Can Corruption be good for growth

https://glineq.blogspot.com/2020/06/can-corruption-be-good-for-growth.html https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/should-economics-remain-detached-from-culture-by-robert-skidelsky-2020-07?utm_source=Project+Syndicate+Newsletter&utm_campaign=71bf83d28a-sunday_newsletter_26_07_2020&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-71bf83d28a-93635693&mc_cid=71bf83d28a&mc_eid=c60f80c1d3

PIVOT Podcast UCLA

Algebra of Happiness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMW6xgPgY4s PIVOT podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pivot/id1073226719

Everyone’s an Antiracist. Now What? Recognizing that Black people deserve dignity isn’t progress.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/opinion/antiracism-what-comes-next.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Risking Nuclear War for Dollars\Linking Climate change and Nuclear War Ellsberg

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/07/risking-nuclear-war-for-dollars.html https://www.cjr.org/special_report/panic_time.php https://www.c-span.org/video/?465524-1/daniel-ellsberg-nuclear-war-planning-policy

Crashing Economy, Rising Stocks: What’s Going On?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/opinion/economy-stock-market-coronavirus.html Good graph on stock volitilty and why https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/opinion/stock-market.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Can the World Get Along Without Natural Resources?

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2020/06/18/can-the-world-get-along-without-natural-resources/ https://medium.com/@JKSteinberger/post-capitalist-reading-in-a-time-of-pandemic-945467e67a9e

Krugman: Why Do the Rich Have So Much Power?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/opinion/inequality-america-paul-krugman.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage