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I ended up as an activist in a very different place from where I started. I thought that if we just redistributed resources, then we could solve every problem. I now know that’s not true. There’s a funny moment when you realize that as an activist: The off-ramp out of extreme poverty is, ugh, commerce, it’s entrepreneurial capitalism. I spend a lot of time in countries all over Africa, and they’re like, Eh, we wouldn’t mind a little more globalization actually.--Bono

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More than 300 literary figures have signed an open letter denouncing the publisher Penguin Random House for its decision to publish a new book by Justice Amy Coney Barrett in the aftermath of her vote to overturn Roe v Wade and end the right to aboriton access in the US.

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The crux of Fetterman's disastrous candidacy is not his illness, it is the ambition revealed by the party's and the candidate's persistence in the campaign. An impaired senator does not benefit the nation but may benefit both the candidate and his party. First things first.

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Beginning in fiscal year 2023, the Department of Energy will require applicants for research funding to explain how their research projects will incorporate the tenets of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Google Trends follows the trend from 'feminism', to 'racism,' as the latter replaces the former, at least on graphs.

 

But first, atheists moved to feminism. Apparently, "this atheism blog is now a feminism blog" was kind of the unofficial slogan of the 2015 blogosphere.





Hmmmmm....



New Socialism matches the predicted cyclical backlash. But it's always inching up, stabilizing at higher norms.