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Kate Raphael

Kate Raphael

A Random Thought

If recent events have proven anything, it is that elections leave many voters unsatisfied. Maybe we should scrap elections altogether, and…

Feb 23, 2021

A Random Thought

Feb 23, 2021

Kate Raphael

Today’s Stimulus, Tomorrow’s Universal Basic Income

You may not know it, but the United States has recently taken a big step toward a Universal Basic Income, or UBI.

Dec 30, 2020

Dec 30, 2020

Kate Raphael

Tiny Margins, Huge Stakes: Team Left vs Team Trump

I’ve always believed the Republicans threw the 2008 presidential election.

Sep 4, 2020

Sep 4, 2020

Kate Raphael

How Do We Keep It Berning?

I started working on this piece three weeks ago. I didn’t want to post it while my friends were still working on Bernie’s campaign. Now I…

Mar 25, 2020

People’s Bailout Demands as a five-story banner

Mar 25, 2020

Kate Raphael

If You Don’t Like Cancel Culture, Cancel Zero Tolerance

Michael Harriot is having a moment for his article on The Root, “Pete Buttigieg Called Me. Here’s What Happened.” It tells the story of…

Nov 27, 2019

Graphic: The Future Is Cancelled

Nov 27, 2019

Kate Raphael

Throw Out the Old Left and Start Dreaming Big

The Democratic Party is a disaster, and may well be headed for the dustbin of history. They read everything wrong — the polls, the…

Nov 21, 2016

Nov 21, 2016

Kate Raphael

Some advice for my white activist friends & comrades

If you don’t like safety pins, don’t wear one (I’m not).

Nov 16, 2016

Nov 16, 2016

Kate Raphael

Telling people you have cancer doesn’t mean you’re weak

I finished a big project late last week and wanted a break, so I started binge-watching Murder in the First. I realize it’s television and…

Aug 31, 2016

Telling people you have cancer doesn’t mean you’re weak

Aug 31, 2016

Kate Raphael

Why do so many activists commit suicide?

Princeton professor Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.’s book, Democracy In Black, begins with a meeting he had with three cofounders of Millennial…

Aug 23, 2016

Why do so many activists commit suicide?

Aug 23, 2016

Kate Raphael

Ignore Trump to Save the World

This endless election season is in its home stretch, and the political media is in autopilot, doing what they do best. And creating a…

Aug 7, 2016

Ignore Trump to Save the World

Aug 7, 2016

Kate Raphael

Kate Raphael

I write novels about Palestine and articles about radical fiction, feminism, queer liberation and the wretched but hopeful state of the world.

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