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Mar 21, 2024 | 
tallahassee.com | Brad Swanson
With over $1.1 billion in federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program funds coming to Florida, we face the historic opportunity to ensure that every resident has access to reliable, high-speed internet. Whether we reach this goal will depend on the choices we make with these investments. Lacking access to the internet isn’t just a nuisance in today’s digital-first world – it robs families and loved ones of critical economic, educational, and social opportunities.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Brad Swanson |Hillel Schenker |Ilana Cohen |Mychal Denzel Smith
Environment / In the corporation’s version of Newspeak, “carbon emissions” means whatever it wants—and any investment in renewables is just a facade. Ad PolicyEnvironment / In the corporation’s version of Newspeak, “carbon emmissions” means whatever it wants—and any investment in renewables is just a façade. Ad PolicyWhich of the following is true? ExxonMobil:pledges to eliminate its carbon emissions by 2050. is dramatically increasing its oil and gas production.
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Sasha Abramsky |Bryce Covert |Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins |Brad Swanson
Economy / Advocates are working to get a version of California’s Garment Workers Protection Act passed at the federal level. Ad PolicyTwo years ago, California legislators passed the Garment Workers Protection Act, SB 62.
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Bryce Covert |Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins |Brad Swanson |Katrina vanden Heuvel
Editorial / The American Rescue Plan created unprecedented programs protecting parents and young children, renters, and childcare providers. Now they are almost entirely gone.
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Aug 21, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Kaniela Ing |Brad Swanson |Lisa M. Corrigan |Liz Farkas
Lahaina, Maui, Hawai’i—In the heart of this place, where the hum of life once vibrated, a somber scene unfolds: Dozens of cadaver dogs painstakingly search for our loved ones amids charred remnants. As I stand with survivors, the air is laden with not just the stench of burnt memories but also the weight of systemic neglect.
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Aug 21, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Brad Swanson |Mike Konczal |Allison Kilkenny |Jeet Heer
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Aug 21, 2023 | 
flipboard.com | Brad Swanson
5 hours agoThe Millennial outsider Republican says he wants a revolution. To get there, he’d gut the federal government. Vivek Ramaswamy leaned forward in his leather seat aboard the Cessna 750. He was fiddling with his pen, talking about Donald Trump. It was the final Friday in July. In several hours he’d …
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Jun 24, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Don DeLillo |Siddhartha Deb |Brad Swanson |Lisa M. Corrigan
This article appears in the July 10/17, 2023 issue. An assassin works from a partial understanding of the world. If not literally a hashishi, as suggested by the word’s etymology, an assassin must nevertheless see the world in tunnel vision, his victim viewed through the lens of a scope. The vast, complex network of humanity to which he and his victim belong, with contending narratives and blurred individual motives, cannot be allowed to exist. To do so would be to fail as an assassin.
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Jun 6, 2023 | 
talentculture.com | Brad Swanson
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” This quote is perhaps one of the most familiar business phrases of all time. Yet, while most leaders agree on the importance of culture, surprisingly few actually devote serious attention to shaping workplace culture. Why is this the case? What role should culture play in business success? And how does agile leadership help shape successful organizations?
