Black women are expected to be proud of a Fani Willis, or a Keisha Lance Bottoms, or a Kamala Harris,

As conditions for the poor and working-class have declined in Atlanta, Black people are asked to celebrate the mere existence of Black elected officials, mirroring the vapid optics of national politics.”
Fani Willis is poised to win the D.A. race in Atlanta, making her the first Black woman to hold the position in the city’s history. But Willis has aligned herself with police unions, writes Malaika Jabali in her new column “Watching the Police,” and her election raises concerns about whether racial justice will be accomplished in a city that desperately demands reform.

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Black women are expected to be proud of a Fani Willis, or a Keisha Lance Bottoms, or a Kamala Harris, regardless of their policy record. …

We’re All Mad As Hell, Thanks to Late Capitalism
The author of ‘Angrynomics’ unpacks why the economy has made us pissed off at everything
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Humanity is richer than it has ever been. We live longer than we ever have; people have access to an endless supply of culture, knowledge, and consumer goods, all from a small device in their pocket. So why are we all so pissed off all the time?
That’s the question political economist Mark Blyth and hedge fund manager Eric Lonergan tackle in their recent book, Angrynomics, which examines the economic roots of rising personal stress and growing popular anger. Blyth and Lonergan look at the transformations of our daily lives and the larger economy over the past 40 years, from the deregulation of finance to the rise of big tech, and explain why these steps that have added to GDP have come at the expense of personal stability. …

The government can’t find the parents of 545 migrant children who were forcefully separated from their families more than two years ago. The Trump administration knew this would happen. Officials were warned ahead of time that reunification would be nearly impossible under the current immigration system, and therefore the separation policy shouldn’t be implemented, NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff reported in his book Separated: Inside an American Tragedy.
The administration also knew separation would traumatize these children for life. Still, they forged ahead in an attempt to shock Congress into limiting immigration into the United States. “They put politics ahead of humanity,” Soboroff told me in an interview in July. “This was a show of force.

Weknew texts could be disrupted — there’s a whole pedagogical initiative built around doing just that. But here’s the story of the fallout that ensued when someone tried to disrupt #DisruptTexts.
Late last year, Jessica Cluess, an author in the young adult fiction genre, was unceremoniously dropped by her literary agent and viciously mobbed online over the perceived racism in the barrage of aggressive tweets she directed at Lorena Germán, an antiracist educator and co-founder of #DisruptTexts.
Cluess was enraged by a tweet Germán wrote which called into question the importance of reading the classics. The backlash to her response-thread was intense, culminating in Cluess offering an apology and then going inactive on Twitter.
There are many interesting avenues to pursue here — from an evaluation of #DisruptTexts as an educational reform movement, to an exploration of the value of classical or canonical literature, to an investigation into whether this episode counts as a cancellation, to many more things.