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Made to Be Broken ”[…] In a pitched moment of rule-questioning, a show about rules and the people who break them.”

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“But in removing one hierarchy, the time limit introduces another. A time limit assumes that all people have relatively equal access to time through their speech, which is not true.”

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“And that was important to him, he says, to write something that someone who didn’t stutter could recite within the time limit. So in that way he was simultaneously adhering to the rules and breaking them at the same time. ”

Five Women ”[…] #MeToo story about several women who worked for the same man. They tell us not only about their troubling encounters with him, but also about their lives beforehand.”

Here, Again “An exhaustingly familiar story. Maybe it’ll have a different ending this time, but maybe not. We hear what different people said and did one weekend in reaction to the killing of George Floyd.”

Three Miles “We hear what happens when you get to see the other side and it looks a lot better. ”

Habeas Schmabeas “At Guantanamo Bay, our government claimed that prisoners […] the most fearsome enemies we have. But is that true? Is it a camp full of terrorists, or a camp full of our mistakes?”

“This was what I envisioned as high school, what these kids are experiencing. This is what I wanted to see myself going to as a high school experience.”

“I don’t want to see how anyone is carrying the one. I don’t want to teach anyone. I have no office hours. I don’t want to know what triggered your come to Jesus moment. […]

″ So this is-- everything kind of is a fucking lie that you see your whole life growing up on TV shows or movies. It’s like, OK, this is not free. This is not available for kids of color. This is something that only privileged or the elite can have.”

[…] And so when I ask the question, why now, the truth is that I don’t really care. All these white people newly attuned to this frequency the rest of us know so well […]

[…] I told a friend that I wanted everyone to do their belated learning far away from me. I have no interest in seeing how the sausage gets made. I just want to walk up to the table and enjoy my breakfast.”

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“If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.”

“Often, evicted families also lose the opportunity to benefit from public housing because Housing Authorities count evictions and unpaid debt as strikes when reviewing applications. [...]

[...] And so people who have the greatest need for housing assistance—the rent-burdened and evicted—are systematically denied it.”

“We are told that poverty is a natural phenomenon that can be fixed with aid. But in reality it is a political problem: poverty doesn’t just exist, it has been created.”

“Poor countries are poor because they are integrated into the global economic system on unequal terms. Aid only works to hide the deep patterns of wealth extraction that cause poverty and inequality in the first place: [...]

[...] rigged trade deals, tax evasion, land grabs and the costs associated with climate change.”

“We do not have to make self-sacrifice a necessary element of altruism. We can regard people as altruists because of the kind of interests they have rather than because they are sacrificing their interests.”

“Blending history, memoir and individual experiences, Afua Hirsch reveals the identity crisis at the heart of Britain today. Far from affecting only minority people, Britain is a nation in denial about its past and its present. [...]

“Living a minimally acceptable ethical life involves using a substantial part of our spare resources to make the world a better place. Living a fully ethical life involves doing the most good we can.”

“If we can prevent something bad, without sacrificing anything of comparable significance, we ought to do it.”

[...] We believe we are the nation of abolition, but forget we are the nation of slavery. We sit proudly at the apex of the Commonwealth, but we flinch from the legacy of the Empire. [...]

[...] We are convinced that fairness is one of our values, but that immigration is one of our problems.”