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Older Black Workers Face More Risk in Economic Downturns

March 2018 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55

April 8, 2018 • by Teresa Ghilarducci

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today reported a 3.2% unemployment rate for workers age 55 and older in March, a rate unchanged since February. For decades, economists have documented that the racial gap in unemployment rates is widest at the depth of a recession and narrowest right before the economy goes into recession. In ...

Older Black Workers Face More Risk in Economic Downturns

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Seeing Is Believing

The Marchers of #MarchForOurLives

April 8, 2018 • by Yvonne M. Vissing

The national and international march for gun safety catalyzed by the Parkland students would be a feat for anyone of any age. But these are teenagers who have triggered a social movement. Although only time will tell what becomes of it, that the young are in charge gives me hope that this movement will stand ...

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March for Our Lives

Rally in Washington D.C. on March 24

April 7, 2018 • by Jo Freeman

Millions of people marched at over 800 US cities in response to the mass shootings that have catalyzed support for gun regulation. The main march in DC was changed to a rally as the expected numbers grew. Instead of marching up Pennsylvania Ave., people packed all the spaces from 3rd to ...

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Civility and Subversion in Dark Times

Answering the Question: Why Public Seminar?

April 6, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Why Public Seminar? Over the past four years, the doubtful, curious, intrigued and impressed have asked me this question, people at my university and at others, academics and non-academics, young and old, New Yorkers, Americans and colleagues from abroad, interested readers and potential contributors. I have answered in various ways, all ...

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No Offense to Robert Musil, But…

The continuing relevance of monuments

April 6, 2018 • by Samantha Oliver

In a 1927 essay, acclaimed Austrian philosopher Robert Musil famously declared, “The remarkable thing about monuments is that one does not notice them. There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument.” Musil believed that monuments recede into the background as the public becomes more familiar with them ...

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Russia’s Choice

Voting in predetermined elections

April 5, 2018 • by Ivan Makeyenko

On March 18, Russian citizens faced a painfully familiar dilemma — to vote or not to vote. What on the surface may look like a simple choice between exercising an inalienable right and sinking into political apathy is, in fact, much more delicate and nuanced. For many of us election ...

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The Challenge of the Catalan Independence Movement in Spain

An interview with Enric Juliana

April 5, 2018 • by Gerardo Muñoz

In recent years, Catalan politics has experienced the rise of a pro-independence political alliance across the ideological spectrum. Several factors have contributed to this development: a general social discomfort with the economic crisis of 2008, numerous corruption cases of top governmental officials at both national and regional levels, the failure of ...

The Challenge of the Catalan Independence Movement in Spain

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What Happened at the Lorraine Motel

America’s divisive politics did not begin with the last election

April 4, 2018 • by Claire Potter

When we think about our divided country, social media seems to be a prime culprit: my column last week addressed the ongoing revelations about Facebook, and the use of social media data to micro-target divisive messages to the American electorate during the 2016 Presidential campaign. Experts and ordinary voters are still ...

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Stormy Daniels

Past Present Bonus Episode 5

April 4, 2018 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this week's episode, Niki and Natalia debate the Stormy Daniels scandal.

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Were We There to Talk about AIDS, or Not?

One woman’s journey in psychotherapy

April 4, 2018 • by Margaret Kim Peterson

This excerpt is part of a longer essay. To read the full essay please click here. Introduction. In January of 1990 I was shocked when the Korean immigrant and Harvard-educated molecular biologist I had recently begun dating said he had something to tell me: he was HIV-positive. The shock never really subsided, ...

Were We There to Talk about AIDS, or Not?

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Two Europes, Not Quite the Same

Cedric Robinson’s concept of racial capitalism in Eastern Europe

April 3, 2018 • by Elena Gagovska

Yugoslavia was in a state of bloody mayhem. Bullets whistled back and forth across the streets from the weapons of invisible shooters, snipers. But as the shells vied to wipe out passersby, reduce thousand-year-old bridges to dust, and the formerly ‘new’ philosophers vied to shame us, going out of their ...