well that's an awfully succinct way to put it www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
As part of my work, I have resolved to draw attention to the millions of people living with disabilities who have been left behind by America's safety net. This piece on the Roosevelt Forward blog is on SSI, a forgotten program in dire need of reform. www.firesidestacks.com/p/50-years-i...
Fifty years ago, the Social Security Administration’s Supplemental Security Income launched with the goal of offering aid to adults and children with disabilities, and to older adults with little to n...
The Historians Council on the Constitution has been hard at work making the public case against SCOTUS's abuses of history. We've launched a new page collecting their public-facing work @brennancenter.bsky.socialwww.brennancenter.org/historians-c...
The Brennan Center has convened a council of expert historians from leading institutions nationwide to help change the national legal conversation on history and the Constitution. Below, you will find...
A good rule of thumb: for the most part, people (even you! even me!) are incapable of identifying the actual causes of their opinions. Asking them will yield many interesting stories, but rarely the actual cause.
"Former President Donald Trump has proposed a wide variety of tax policy changes. Taken together, these proposals would, on average, lead to a tax cut for the richest 5 percent of Americans and a tax increase for all other income groups." itep.org/a-distributi...
If you don't know what to do with yourself right now, one thing that will definitely be necessary to all future liberation and mutual aid efforts in this catastrophic era is the strengthening of our solidarity networks. Map out your webwork of survival, care, and resistance.
Judges up for re-election increase incarceration rates, but only for black felons. 😠 jhr.uwpress.org/content/52/4...
Both of these positions are in line with anti-democratic traditions in conservatism. The key question on the Right has never simply been democracy or autocracy – but rather: How much authoritarianism is necessary to prevent too much democracy for too many people?