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Alyssa Battistoni is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College. Her writing has also appeared in The Nation, Dissent, n+1, and Jacobin. She is coauthor, with Kate Aronoff, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos, of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal. She tweets @AlyBatt.
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