‘Strategy’ May Be More Useful to Pawns Than to Kings

We imagine it as a concern of the powerful, hunched over the chessboard of the world. But strategic thinking is critical to broad movements, too

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By Beverly Gage

In the late 1960s, the veteran radical Saul Alinsky looked at American society and did not…

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