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When Are We Going To Have The Courage?

Sally Rooney | Irish Times | 23rd November

Novelist makes the case that capitalism is prolonging the problem of climate change. There is broad scientific and political consensus on the action required, but we can't take it. Carbon dioxide levels only rose when humanity invented this system, she argues. "Because the rich own things, and the poor do not, it is legal for the rich to destroy Earth and illegal for the poor to stop them" (1,800 words)

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The Deeper Reasons Democrats Lost

Elad Nehorai | 2nd December 2024

Theory of recent political events. "Existential dread. No accountability. War crimes on phone screens. The psychology of this moment can’t be underplayed. Anti-Trump voters didn’t stay home because they didn’t care about fascism. They stayed home for the same reason they avoided the news: they just could not handle dealing with this moment anymore. They had checked out" (5,200 words)

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