Common Grounds

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• Biden Goes Big

  
  February 18, 2021 13:45

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/biden-right-to-launch-massive-rescue-plan-by-joseph-e-stiglitz-2021-02?utm_source=Project+Syndicate+Newsletter&utm_campaign=521e775455-sunday_newsletter_02_07_2021&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-521e775455-93791313&mc_cid=521e775455&mc_eid=284f1f0e24

   

  By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ

  Published February 1, 2021

   

  The US president's proposed $1.9 trillion recovery package will provide enormous stimulus to the economy. The economic growth that results will generate substantial tax revenues, not just for the federal government but also for the states and municipalities that are now starved of the funds they need to provide essential services.

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• Raghuram G. Rajan Says More…

  
  February 18, 2021 13:28

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/say-more/an-interview-with-raghuram-g-rajan-2021-01?utm_source=Project%20Syndicate%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=fdcfb2f10c-contributor_newsletter_schwab_09_02_2021&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-fdcfb2f10c-93791313&mc_cid=fdcfb2f10c&mc_eid=284f1f0e24

   

  Published January 26, 2021

   

  This week in Say More, PS talks with Raghuram G. Rajan, a former governor of the Reserve Bank of India and a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

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• Opinion / Want Israeli-Palestinian Peace? Try Confederation

  
  February 13, 2021 18:07

  Source: The New York Times

  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/opinion/israel-palestinian-confederation.html

   

  By Bernard Avishai and Sam Bahour

  Published February 12, 2021

   

  Politicians and experts should not doubt a two-state solution. But they should finally consider a plausible version of it.

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• Christian Prophets Are on the Rise. What Happens When They’re Wrong?

  
  February 13, 2021 17:23

  Source: The New York Times

  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/us/christian-prophets-predictions.html?searchResultPosition=1

   

  By Ruth Graham

  Published February 11, 2021

   

  They are stars within one of the fastest-growing corners of American Christianity. Now, their movement is in crisis.

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• I am a Jew and I want Palestinians heard in court

  
  February 12, 2021 15:16

  Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians (JFJFP)

  https://jfjfp.com/i-am-a-jew-and-i-want-palestinians-heard-in-court/

   

  Marilyn Garson writes in The Palestine Chronicle

  Published February 8, 2021

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• Are Modern Prophets NEVER Wrong?

  
  February 15, 2021 12:23

  By: Abraham A. van Kempen, Editor

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• Reviewing US policy on Palestine, with Professor Rashid Khalidi

  
  February 16, 2021 15:38

  Source: Middle East Monitor

  https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210210-memo-in-conversation-with-professor-rashid-khalidi-2/

   

  By Nasim Ahmed

  Published February 10,2021

   

  Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.

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• The Seven Secrets of 2020

  
  February 18, 2021 13:07

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/seven-secrets-revealed-by-2020-by-yanis-varoufakis-2020-12?barrier=accesspaylog

   

  By YANIS VAROUFAKIS

  Published December 28, 2020

   

  This year has resembled a rapidly receding tide, forcing us to confront submerged truths. One lesson we learned in 2020 is that national governments had been choosing not to exercise their enormous powers so that those whom globalization had enriched could exercise their own.

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• Biden and the Fed Leave 1970s Inflation Fears Behind

  
  February 18, 2021 12:49

  Source: The New York Times

  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/business/economy/biden-fed-inflation-covid.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210215&instance_id=27155&nl=the-morning&regi_id=146080032&segment_id=51724&te=1&user_id=e

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  By Jim Tankersley and Jeanna Smialek

  Published February 15, 2021

   

  Administration and Fed officials argue that workers not getting enough stimulus help is a larger concern than potential spikes in consumer prices.

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• America Is (Sort of) Back

  
  February 18, 2021 12:16

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/biden-foreign-policy-challenges-credibility-by-shlomo-ben-ami-2021-02

   

  By SHLOMO BEN-AMI

  Published February 17, 2021

   

  From its botched pandemic response to the storming of the US Capitol on January 6, America’s political dysfunction has lately been on stark display. And that is only one obstacle President Joe Biden's administration faces in pursuing a robust foreign policy.

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