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How District Attorneys Can Promote Justice and Increase Public Safety
Restorative approaches to criminal prosecution and holding the powerful accountable easily beat harsh punishments for drug-related crime.
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On Paid Sick Leave, as with Other Policy, Universal Beats Targeted and Technocratic
California’s 2022 COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave law is well-intentioned, but it could have been much more efficient, consistent, and clear.
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Even with Recent Improvements, Obamacare’s Exchanges Don’t Cut It
The ACA’s exchanges still make insurance executives rich while doing little to expand access to care.
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My Didibhai, Purnima (Lekha) Banerji (May 2, 1927 to June 28, 2021)
Didibhai packed the presence and personality of a person three times her size into her diminutive 4’ 10” frame.
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Justice Representatives Have Power and We Need Them to Use It
Social justice advocates in the House should act more like labor unions dealing with intransigent employers, which leverage the threat to strike to force their bosses to take them seriously.
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Remembering John Lewis and Black Politics
This week on the show, Mike and David discuss the life and times of the late Rep. John Lewis. They also talk about the new wave of incoming Black politicians into Congress and the need for a new radical Black politics. Tune in below. Run It Black Podcast · Remembering…
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Making Sense of the Moment We’re In
Run It Black Podcast · Making Sense of the Moment We’re in 2020 has been a year unlike any for most of us. From coronavirus to the national movement against police violence, it feels like we’re in a moment that could best be described as tectonic. This week on the…
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Resident Perspective: Volunteering at a Testing Site
This is the continuation of a series of journal entries depicting what it’s like to be a part of the COVID pandemic from the medicine resident perspective. With my office hours consolidated and no longer attending morning and noon teaching conferences, I find myself wanting to get back in…