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Osita Nwanevu is a contributing editor at The New Republic. He is a former staff writer at The New Yorker and Slate and his work has also appeared in Harper's, the Chicago Reader, and In These Times. Nwanevu is also the former Editor-in-Chief of the South Side Weekly, an alternative weekly covering the South Side of Chicago.

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Coworkers, Not Contractors: Preserving the Social Fabric of Work in a Fractured World

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By Diana S. Reddy, Osita Nwanevu Verified, Liz Shuler
| rooseveltinstitute.org
The current discourse surrounding the future of work is missing a fundamental element: an affirmative defense of employment itself. While progressive arguments historically focus on safeguarding statutory workplace rights, benefits, and safety nets, employment must also be recognized for its intrinsic value as a vital social institution that deserves protection and structural reinforcement.
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The Spirit of (19)76

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By Osita Nwanevu Verified
| Flaming Hydra
Despite the best efforts of the man himself, it was entirely possible to spend one’s Fourth of July in Washington this past weekend without seeing Donald Trump. The forces of nature were against him—D.C. happened to be one of the hottest places on earth on the 4th, and a thunderstorm forced some of those hoping to see Trump’s grand finale on the mall to take shelter in the National Museum of African American History, of all places.
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Who Owns the Declaration of Independence? Original

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By Osita Nwanevu Verified
| The New Republic Verified
Last year, The Atlantic reported that President Donald Trump had queried advisers about putting the delicate original copy of the Declaration of Independence on display in the Oval Office. “Trump’s request alarmed some of his aides, who immediately recognized both the implausibility and the expense of moving the original,” The Atlantic’s Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer wrote.
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Interning at In These Times, a progressive magazine based in Chicago.

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