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Service economy workers not going to take it anymore

Class War is Just Beginning

The pandemic revealed how much those of us in the laptop class depend on the efforts of low-paid service economy workers, potentially feeding a new era of class conflict, with the "Great Resignation" being just the beginning.
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Welcome to the End of Democracy

We bemoan autocracies in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Russia and China but largely ignore more subtle authoritarian trends in the West. We may remain nominally democratic, but be ruled by a technocratic class empowered by greater powers of surveillance than those enjoyed by even the nosiest of dictatorships.
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Is This the End of Progressive America?

The institutional triumph of progressives will not produce an enduring political victory, let alone substantially change public opinion. Instead, the erosion of trust in our public institutions threatens to end progressive America.
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