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Sasha Abramsky
Sasha Abramsky is a freelance journalist and a part-time lecturer at the University of California at Davis. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, New York Magazine, The Village Voice and Rolling Stone. He also writes a weekly political column.
They Should Be Permanent
The more we learn about Trump’s last months in office, the clearer it becomes that talk of coups and martial law was far more than just idle chatter
State lawmakers in one state after the next have moved to embrace Trump’s fantasies about rigged elections and massive fraudulent voting
“We need to build public awareness — get people to understand the impact these laws could have, and the impact on voters”
In the long run, vaccine nationalism, and the protectionism of rich countries against poor countries, helps no one
It’s past time for the United States to make similar investments to protect the people and institutions who provide us with art, with song, with melody during good times and bad
Pick pretty much any local jurisdiction, anywhere in the country, and draconian cuts to services are on the table as we head into 2021
The last nine months have peeled back the veneer on a society so vastly unequal that it no longer has either the ability or the will to do right by those at the bottom of the economic pyramid
For the kind of unfettered poverty that is being unleashed will, if left unchecked, likely result in massive political turmoil over the coming years and decades