#Inequality

Maitreya Bhakal

MaitreyaBhakal

Schrodinger's China:China is both a threat to world's peace, and on the verge of collapse. Schrodinger's response to COVID-19:China's response is both delayed and riddled with missteps - and is

Dr. Jane Clare Jones

janeclarejones

I'm not a liberal, I'm a leftist. Although I'm also deeply anti-authoritarian and while democracy is a highly imperfect system, it's still the best option we have, and a great

Pseudoerasmus

pseudoerasmus

Recent rhetoric about “The Enlightenment” is bizarre. A major strand of the Enlightment was about the Perfectibility of Man through Reason. The revolutionary reconstruction of society. The French Revolution is

Moishe Mana

MoisheMana

10 years ago I came to Miami and invested in over a billion dollars in real estate. I told people I came here to create a global tech hub, and

Neil Tester

NTtweeting

Unusually, I didn’t live tweet from @MattHancock’s Future of Healthcare speech this morning. I wanted to think about the text afterwards, and the novelty of being IN A ROOM WITH

Ash Kalra 🌱

Ash_Kalra

MLK Day gives me mixed feelings. When he lived, MLK was hated by most Americans. That hatred may have been seeded in white resentment, but it grew as Dr. King

Caitlin Johnstone ⏳

caitoz

As US Eviction Crisis Looms, Remember That Poverty Is Weaponized By The Elite"It often surprises Americans when I say this, but the USA is largely a third-world country blanketed in

Simon Burgess

profsimonb

NEW: report out today from DELVE group @royalsociety: Balancing the risks of pupils returning to school https://rs-delve.github.io/reports/2020/07/24/balancing-the-risk-of-pupils-returning-to-schools.htmlPrincipal authors: @DrIneshassan1 @A

Steve 'Doc' Baty

docbaty

JobSeeker/JobKeeper vs Business tax breaksORDemand-side vs Supply-side economic policyA thread... I wanted to dive into this topic to add some context around why the proposed reductions to JobSeeker and JobKeeper

Lindsay Owens

owenslindsay1

Cutting UI is political suicide, yet Republicans are trying to do just that.As a sociologist who studied attitudes toward the safety net (and former Hill staffer who fought to expand

Zeke Smith

zekerchief

Concerned about equity in Women's Collegiate Sports Scholarships? The place to begin is not with the handful of trans girls playing on their school's teams, because the reality is playing

athreya

athreya49

Recently finished reading ‘The Economists’ Hour’ by @BCAppelbaum. It’s a remarkable history of economic policy making. What we also get in the process is a series of fascinating portraits about

United Way Topeka

UnitedWayTopeka

(THREAD) In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth , each Thursday this month we will be bringing you stories about the issues, places, and people who shaped Black history throughout our community and

you lie, whose independence?

lowlowtide

dear designers, historians or not, the model of metropolitan open space that Central Park (1857, Olmsted & Vaux) represents was created at the same time as that of Yellowstone (1872,

Nouriel Roubini

Nouriel

Bitcoin has no role in institutional or retail investors portfolios. It is not a currency: not an unit of account, not a scalable means of payment & is a highly

Izak ☭ Novák

izak_novak

A major survey report from Harvard was just released, finding that satisfaction among Chinese citizens with all levels of gov have steadily increased from 2003-2016. The survey up-ends numerous myths

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