Suzanne Kahn
suzmkahn.bsky.social
Suzanne Kahn
@suzmkahn.bsky.social
Historian of social insurance and feminism. VP Think Tank @rooseveltinstitute.org & Roosevelt Forward. Previously @32bjseiu.bsky.social, @seiu.org, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social History Dept

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Across the board the essential civic institutions behind our democracy, are being weakened by the extremely wealthy. We see it in higher ed, we see it in media, etc. A democracy agenda is an anti-oligarchy agenda.
January 27, 2026 at 2:52 PM
We genuinely didn't know where the research would end up, but when @lookheron.bsky.social came back with the argument that the missing link in the story was the growing power of trustees it made perfect sense.
January 27, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Reposted by Suzanne Kahn
You are going to hear a lot over the next few years about how SS is doomed and we need to privatize it or whatever. But it is not doomed. We have already figured out several possible ways to right to the ship. And we could have done so at any time in the last 2 decades. We knew this was coming...
September 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM