Author: Ben Spielberg
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For Social Justice Advocates in California, Supporting Barbara Lee Remains the Best Strategy
Proper polling analysis shows that Lee has a legitimate chance of advancing to the general election. The smartest strategy for social justice advocates is to support her.
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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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Anyone but Trump? Weighing Three Approaches for Social Justice Advocates in 2020
Each of the #VoteBlueNoMatterWho, #NeverBiden, and wait-and-see strategies has a coherent, reasonable social justice rationale.
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It’s Not Over
Things don’t look great for Bernie. But we’re only about halfway through July in a typical Major League Baseball season.
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The Wednesday Morning Speech Bernie Should Have Given
This revision to Bernie’s actual remarks would have maximized his shot to win.
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Pro-Choice? Bernie Sanders is the Clear Choice.
Planned Parenthood says Bernie has been an “unwavering ally.” Joe Biden has been “one of the Democratic Party’s most conservative voices on abortion,” per Politico.
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