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Alan Saly

The Best Doomer Story

The Making of the Representative for Planet B

3 min readNov 6, 2023

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The Best Doomer Story

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Alan Saly

Down the Trump Rabbit Hole

The rabbit hole, from Alice in Wonderland, is a departure from reality. Being there is, mainly, entertainment. It doesn’t help solve life’s…

3 min readJun 18, 2022

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Down the Trump Rabbit Hole

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Alan Saly

The Tenuous Connection Between Voting and Prosperity

If you could just, by spending an hour waiting in line and then voting for the candidate of your choice, make your life much…

2 min readJan 18, 2022

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The Tenuous Connection Between Voting and Prosperity

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Alan Saly

How Can Good People Recognize One Another?

Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 1:

4 min readSep 19, 2021

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How Can Good People Recognize One Another?

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Alan Saly

Is Jack Williamson’s “The Humanoids” a Key to Our Future?

The world is connected. People are interdependent. They are not free to create chaos. The childish abandon of being able to create and…

6 min readJun 4, 2021

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Alan Saly

Living as if Nothing is Ever Lost

Whether you can take anything with you beyond the grave — and whether memories outweigh material possessions — is the first question. For…

5 min readMay 11, 2021

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Living as if Nothing is Ever Lost

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Alan Saly

It Can Only Get Better — Here’s Why

Everyone who struggles has a way to face pain, or a way to adapt to pain. But here we are, at this given moment: Now. Now is the moment…

4 min readSep 12, 2020

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Alan Saly

Growing Up Non-Racist

What possible reason could there be, to deny someone their human rights? That is, the right to equal justice under the law, the right to…

4 min readJun 30, 2020

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Alan Saly

Putting COVID-19 Risk Into Perspective by Alan Saly

The new normal is shaping up to be something like the old normal, if we look at it from a risk perspective. Even if a vaccine isn’t…

3 min readApr 29, 2020

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Putting COVID-19 Risk Into Perspective
by Alan Saly

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Alan Saly

NPG’s Donald Mann Looks Back at 50 Years of Activism

From Washington comes an urgent missive: “Negative Population Growth President Donald Mann has announced a new nationwide effort to get…

9 min readJan 16, 2020

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NPG’s Donald Mann Looks Back at 50 Years of Activism

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Alan Saly

Alan Saly

Alan Saly is the Director of Publications at Transport Workers Union Local 100 in New York City. He is a 1979 graduate of Wesleyan University.

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