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Opinion
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Forged Through Mortality
In the same way, we craft our own perspective, rejecting the medical model to reframe disability as a socio-cultural identity where members have shared history, customs, and experience while remaining distinctive in the challenges faced at their own crossroads between intersectional identities
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Ranked Choice Voting: A Worthwhile Experiment in Democratic Reform
Ranked choice voting may be the solution that America needs to lessen the partisan divide and ensure that voters’ voices are heard.
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What COVID and Climate Share
Even at a glance, their resemblance is unmistakable—in the science they require, in the disruption they threaten, in the borders they mock, in the racial and economic distribution of their burdens. And to those willing to look closer, climate change and SARS-CoV-2 reveal yet more alarming structural and ecological similarities.
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Citizens United: A Ruling Made to be Broken
The overwhelming presence of dark money and massive contributions by corporations and the wealthy in modern electoral politics dilutes the influence of the masses and magnifies the influence of the few.
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To Recede a Frontier
I was no longer in the cure-finding business but instead hard at work figuring out how to live a fulfilled life under altered circumstances. For those who have never made this transition: it is a forceful, sometimes internally violent, act of re-definition.
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How Iconization Reduces a Movement Into a Moment
Confining the extensive Civil Rights Movement to a single decade and to the adapted legends of two individuals creates a misleading narrative that remains rooted in the South, focused on non-economic issues, and as one that does not address institutional racism.
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What Georgia’s Historic Voter Turnout Reveals About Enacting Change on the Local Level
Georgia turned blue for the first time since 1992, and we have one group to thank: Black women and grassroots activists whose advocacy has proven the efficacy of working towards progress on the local level.
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Where Does QAnon Go From Here?
In 2017, before Greene’s Congressional run, she posted a video summarizing the QAnon theory and asserting, “there’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles out, and I think we have the president to do it.”