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• SOURCE: The Nation
  2/23/2021
  

  The Broken System: What Comes After Meritocracy?

  by Elizabeth Anderson

  Philosopher Elizabeth Anderson reviews Michael Sandel's critique of meritocracy, a book that locates an explanation for the Trumpian moment in the rise of competitive individualism in the platforms of both major parties. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/9/2020
  

  CEOs Email You Heartfelt Coronavirus Messages, While Still Prioritizing the Bottom Line

  by Andrew Lynn

  Over 100 years, a tactic first designed to keep workers happy morphed into a marketing strategy.

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• Kate Brown: Nuclear "Plutopias" the Largest Welfare Program in American History (INTERVIEW)

  by Robin Lindley

  Inside the largest social welfare program in American history ... at a nuclear production facility founded as part of the Manhattan Project.

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• Social Security: A Right or a Privilege?

  by Eric Laursen

  Image via Shutterstock.How did it come about that people have a “right” to certain benefits from the state -- or “entitlement,” in the loaded language of our day? A fascinating new paper by legal scholar Karen N. Tani argues that the idea of “welfare rights” first became commonplace not amongst activists in the 1960s, but with a group of mid-level Roosevelt administration officials who in the late 1930s were trying to get an ambitious new state-federal assortment of anti-poverty programs off the ground.