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Putting Journalistic Ideals Back in the Service of Practice

Al Jazeera and the problems of media today

March 13, 2018 • by Barbie Zelizer

The following was presented as the Plenary Keynote for the International Federation of Journalists and the Human Rights Commission of Qatar, Doha, July 2017. When journalism comes to mind, the tendency is to think West, to think settled democracies, autonomous institutions, reasoned deliberation, transparent decision-making, and a unified and stable public. But ...

Putting Journalistic Ideals Back in the Service of Practice

Blue Monday

The Fables of Our Faubus

Jeff Sessions, man of justice

March 12, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout, and I wrote some blues." -Duke Ellington Jefferson Beauregard Sessions has fallen on hard times. A celebrated Alabamian and Man of the South, he came out for Donald Trump long before any other national Republican politician, and then gave up his very ...

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Wage Increases Leave Women and Older Workers Behind

February 2018 unemployment report for workers over 55

March 12, 2018 • by Teresa Ghilarducci

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today reported a 3.2% unemployment rate for workers age 55 and older in February, an increase of 0.2 percentage points from January. While low unemployment is finally leading to wage increases for some prime-age men, women and older workers are being left behind. In the last year, ...

Wage Increases Leave Women and Older Workers Behind

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Reading The Second Sex in the Age of #MeToo

Where are we coming from, and where do we go?

March 12, 2018 • by Hannah Leffingwell

In the firestorm of debates about the implications of #MeToo, feminist activists and commentators have found themselves circling around the definitions of a handful of essential terms: rape, harassment, assault, consent. We have seen the word “pleasure” disentangled, and the word “inappropriate” expanded. We have discussed power and victimhood, empowerment ...

Reading The Second Sex in the Age of #MeToo

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Black Panther, Adam Rippon, and Plastics

Past Present Episode 120

March 11, 2018 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Niki, Neil, and Natalia debate the blockbuster film Black Panther, the ascendancy of Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon, and the preponderance of plastics in contemporary life.

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Black Panther, Adam Rippon, and Plastics

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A Rising Employment Rate Means Fewer Sidelined Workers

New York City’s long rising economic tide

March 11, 2018 • by James Parrott

Economic theory suggests that sustained periods of low unemployment should produce an array of broadly enjoyed job market benefits. Not only will more people have jobs: their wages should also rise; overall poverty should subside; and general economic conditions for the traditionally disadvantaged should improve. Unfortunately, reality doesn’t always conform to ...

A Rising Employment Rate Means Fewer Sidelined Workers

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Free Speech or Free Riding?

Janus v AFSCME before the Supreme Court

March 10, 2018 • by Jo Freeman

A thousand people rallied outside the Supreme Court the morning of January 26 while the Justices heard oral argument on Janus v. AFSCME Council 31 inside. The decision in this case will have profound effects on public service unions. Currently 22 states require employees who do not choose to join a union ...

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Women of the World Unite?

Radical, Liberal and Conservative Feminism, and Democracy

March 9, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

In the wake of the International Women’s Strike, I feel a need to express my support of “the feminism of the ninety nine percent,” but also of “lean-in feminism,” and “conservative feminism” (if there is such a thing), fully aware that they do not support each other. Such is my ...

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The Power of Black Women’s Political Labor Remembered

Bennett College and the Civil Rights Movement

March 9, 2018 • by Jennifer Ash

Greensboro, North Carolina, is best known for the 1960 sit-ins that sparked a massive student movement to desegregate the South. Despite not being fully acknowledged as leaders in that movement, Black women students from Bennett College were vital to the political climate that made the sit-ins possible and sustained the ...

The Power of Black Women’s Political Labor Remembered

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Writing about Factual Media in an Age of Extremes

Our ‘Manhattan Project’ moment

March 9, 2018 • by Chris Anderson

Several months ago, my friend and colleague Daniel Kreiss and I were discussing something extraordinary: communication research, and communication researchers, suddenly seemed to be everywhere. Prompted by the role played by digital platforms in the election of Donald Trump and the undeniable power of media and communication companies in establishing ...

Writing about Factual Media in an Age of Extremes

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International Women’s Strike

March 8th 2018 will be the second IWS

March 7, 2018 • by International Women's Strike NYC

March 8th, We Strike! New York is an affluent city, rich in many ways, a global hub of business, finance and commerce, and home for the highest number of billionaires. However, it is not the top 1% who keep this city alive, but the millions of workers. Their labor is essential ...

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Is Women’s Solidarity Possible?

To be a successful movement, feminism has had to ignore its failure with conservative women

March 7, 2018 • by Claire Potter

Tomorrow is International Women's Day. Don't do housework—let men do it (that is, should you own a man: we don't at my house, so we would have to rent or borrow one.) Don't do paid work. Don't shop—except at female and minority-owned small business (should you be able to locate ...