1-New/featured posts

• 2-Covid19
• 3-Racism
• *50th Anniversaries during the 2020s
• *** Alert: This Website is being reconstructed from the version in Sakai ***
  UNC is discontinuing its Sakai web platform as of May 15, 2024, so Vic Schoenbach has been moving/reconstructing this website, which may take a while - click for more information. https://go.unc.edu/SJAE and his other short URLs will eventually be re-pointed to the new site.
• *** How a little-known organization is poised to shape a second Trump administration *** (35 min)
  Fresh Air, Host: Dave Davies, October 30, 2024. New York Times reporter Ken Bensinger says the America First Policy Institute, which has nearly 300 executive orders ready to be signed, would influence a Trump second term more than Project 2025. (Includes transcript.)
• *Racism: Science and Tools for the Public Health Professional - 2nd edition, 2024
  Chandra L. Ford and Derek M. Griffith, eds., APHA Press. (1st edition was published in 2019)
                               
  
  
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• Starting Alone
  A 1985 pamphlet prepared by the UNC Women's Club for as a service to the University community to make it a little easier for members of the community to plan for the possibility and navigate after the death of a partner. Because this document was published about four decades ago, the addresses, tax laws, etc. will have all changed, but the basic issues and processes largely remain in place.
• Patriotic Millionnaires
  (posted 10/2/2024) Members of the Patriotic Millionaires are high-net worth Americans, business leaders, and investors who are united in their concern about historic levels of inequality and the destabilizing concentration of wealth and power in America. The mission of The Patriotic Millionaires organization is to build a stable, prosperous, and inclusive nation by promoting public policies based on the “first principles” of equal political representation, a guaranteed living wage for all working citizens, and a fair tax system. (more from About . . .)
• Rebroadcast: Trump's 2025 authoritarian playbook and what it means for democracy (47 min.)
  Paige Sutherland and Meghna Chakrabarti, July 12, 2024
  Guests:
  Aisha Woodward, head of constraining executive power team and policy strategist at Protect Democracy, a non-profit, nonpartisan anti-authoritarianism group.
  Genevieve Nadeau, counsel and head of the defending against authoritarian threats team at Protect Democracy.
  Includes transcript.
• *833 - Come Retribution
  This American Life. Episode 833, June 7, 2024
  Donald Trump has talked about taking retribution on his enemies since the early days of his 2024 presidential campaign. After his conviction last week in New York, his talk intensified. We try to understand what his retribution might look like by speaking with people who have the most to lose in a second Trump administration: people who believe Trump will be coming for them.
  - Prologue by Ira Glass (16 minutes)
  - Act One. Republicans Who Crossed Trump (22 minutes)
  - Act Two. The Deep Stater - Alex Vindman (14 minutes)
  - Act Three. Four More Years (7 minutes)
  
• AAUP Preliminary Report of the Special Committee on Academic Freedom in Florida
  A May 2023 preliminary report from an AAUP special committee established to review the apparent pattern of politically, racially, and ideologically motivated attacks on public higher education in Florida. The committee concludes that academic freedom, tenure, and shared governance in Florida’s public colleges and universities currently face a politically and ideologically driven assault unparalleled in US history.
• Teneo Network
  Inside the “Private and Confidential” Conservative Group That Promises to “Crush Liberal Dominance”
  Leonard Leo, a key architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, is now the chairman of Teneo Network, a group that aims to influence all aspects of American politics and culture. By Andy Kroll and Andrea Bernstein, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey, Documented
  March 9, 2023
• The Next Pandemic
  Roots of an Outbreak: How the Next Pandemic Could Start. ProPublica. Five articles from February-March, 2023.