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Major American Industries Are Quasi-Nationalized, Why Not Go All the Way?

Time and time again, the government has come to the rescue of giant companies and major industries, all the meanwhile pretending it doesn’t…

7 min readMar 17, 2023

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Major American Industries Are Quasi-Nationalized, Why Not Go All the Way?

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Electric Vehicles Are Not the Solution

Ditching cars entirely is the only way we can have a real chance at fighting climate change.

4 min readJun 28, 2021

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For Amazon, Black Lives Don’t Matter

Amazon and other corporations are deeply complicit in the ongoing oppression and precarity of Black folk and their communities in America.

6 min readJun 10, 2020

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For Amazon, Black Lives Don’t Matter

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Democracy Is Incompatible with Capitalism

Countries that claim to be democratic today are not. For all of these countries are not ruled by the people but rather are ruled by…

8 min readDec 17, 2020

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Diversity Is More Than Skin Deep

Real diversity is not just racial/ethnic, gender, and sexual difference. It is a multiplicity of viewpoints, backgrounds, experiences…

5 min readDec 11, 2020

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Please Stop Using the Word “Curated”

Simply picking or putting things together that supposedly go well together is not what curating is fundamentally about.

2 min readFeb 23, 2023

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Please Stop Using the Word “Curated”

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The Death of Offices Could Actually Be Great

One way to solve the vacancy problem of many of the office buildings in downtowns is to rezone or redistrict them so they can be converted…

3 min readNov 3, 2022

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The Death of Offices Could Actually Be Great

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The US Needs Better Public Media

A new form of public media in this country should be created to keep the people elected to serve in government and other people who hold…

5 min readMay 8, 2022

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The US Needs Better Public Media

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Censorship and COVID-19

My recent article on booster shots was censored by a prominent Medium publication.

4 min readOct 6, 2021

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Censorship and COVID-19

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Electric Vehicles and the Lack of Imagination

Yes, 250–300 miles of range on a single charge may seem great today, but imagine if you could drive an EV with 600 miles of range.

4 min readSep 29, 2021

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Riad Kherdeen

Riad Kherdeen

PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley. Your source for original, critical, thought-provoking content about art, history, culture, and politics.

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