Happy Birthday United Nations! 77 years ago, in the aftermath of WWII, international parties united around a vision to ensure international peace and preserve the rights of all the world’s people. Learn more: un.org/en/observances… #UNDay

Excited to chat about democracy and the culture-shaping effects of law with The LPE Project NYC junior scholars group tonight! We’ll be looking at my forthcoming Syracuse Law Review piece alongside Aziz Rana’s great recent Dissent Magazine essay about segregation (1/2) dissentmagazine.org/article/our-se…

And, we should be "vocal about the harmful substitution of consumer morality for family- and community-based ethical standards. Being a good consumer does not equal being a good human." Suzanne Kahn has a must-read on governing for more than consumers: rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/m…

This may annoy some allies. But there are many who are trying to elaborate a progressive foreign policy vision based on principles of human rights, solidarity, and opposition to authoritarian, imperialist and oligarchic oppression. I believe the tide is turning in this direction.

This grotesque trivialization of vitally important issues (healthcare, future of democracy, structural inequality, etc.) and of politics writ large will always be symptomatic of an overly-commercialized media system whose primary aim is to capture attention, sell ads, and profit.

The ableism on display in those assessing the #PASenate race is abhorrent. 61 million Americans live w/ a disability. Congress doesn’t reflect that. I’d much rather have a recovering John Fetterman in the Senate over his opponent whose impairment is a permanent moral one.

Republicans have spent over $100M in the past month trying to scare voters with crime ads, and $80M trying to blame Democrats -- rather than corporate price gouging -- for inflation. It does seem like this boosted their numbers. Maybe briefly.

"Democrats have no unified economic message; it just doesn’t exist. There's no agenda," said one Democratic strategist working on House campaigns. Oh ya think? Total disinterest in business and commerce tends to lead to this dynamic. axios.com/2022/10/26/soc…

WH needs a clear unified religious message to offer more voters a diverse spiritual home and fight the right wing assault on religious freedom

The #privatization of healthcare in #Kenya is undermining the #right2health. Why are we NYU Center for Human Rights & Global Justice joining 19 other orgs in urging UN rights experts to intervene with the Kenyan govt and other key promoters of the private sector—the US govt and the World Bank Group? A 🧵

It is interesting that as visible as Christian nationalism is, and even though it has captured the Republican party, it is clearly a minority viewpoint.

A whopping 92% of respondents believe that schools should teach American history honestly, even if it makes students “feel uncomfortable or guilty about what their ancestors did in the past.” #CRT. Religion Dispatches on #AVS2022 religiondispatches.org/2022-american-…

Rs will say Ds are 'unfriendly toward religion'.. although it's fearmongering and it's untrue.. and Ds don't have any response

Ds need to campaign as a spiritual home. yes we can.

Ds need this passionate messaging.

'Spiritual home' would be powerful populist language, respecting self-determination, capacious for all

Dem party could call itself a 'spiritual home' and celebrate more

A street vendor runs to give a rose to a women who had removed her hijab in protest. #Iran #MahsaAmini

We need a movement politics that promotes more claims of inspiration, and need to attract people away from the claims of the religious right

"Beating Down the Poor in America"