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After the Parkland Massacre, What?

A conversation between left and right about gun control

February 21, 2018 • by Claire Potter

Joseph Castillo and I met in the fall of 1976 as first year students at Yale University. He was from the southwest, I was from the Northeast; he was a science major, and I was an English major. Joe became an engineer and entrepreneur and I became a history professor, ...

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Blackness, Gender, and the Non-normative

A Response to Christopher Lebron’s The Making of Black Lives Matter

February 21, 2018 • by Marquis Bey

Race/isms Book Forum is a new series aimed at bringing established and emerging voices together in conversation around recent work that critically engages our world’s racial scripts, past and present. The structure of the forum is straightforward. We invite three to four thinkers to grapple with a book, highlighting a section ...

Blackness, Gender, and the Non-normative

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Multiple and Interlocking

Black Lives Matter as the lens through which a system is made clear

February 20, 2018 • by Jenn M. Jackson

Race/isms Book Forum is a new series aimed at bringing established and emerging voices together in conversation around recent work that critically engages our world’s racial scripts, past and present. The structure of the forum is straightforward. We invite three to four thinkers to grapple with a book, highlighting a section ...

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Position of the Helsinki Committee in Poland

An open letter

February 20, 2018 • by Ewa Letowska

In the opinion of the Helsinki Committee in Poland, the two years since November 2015 have brought the greatest number of challenges and threats to human rights and freedoms of the entire post-1989 period. The Committee, as a civic initiative monitoring the violation of rights and fundamental freedoms since 1983, examines ...

Position of the Helsinki Committee in Poland

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What Makes Something New Today?

On the compulsion to innovate

February 20, 2018 • by Santiago Zabala

Given our prejudice towards innovation, everything labeled as “new” captures our interest with the promise of genuine improvement. But are new politicians, technological discoveries, and works of art necessarily better than previous ones? As we enter 2018 we recall last year’s breakthroughs as improvements in politics, technology, and art. It is ...

Blue Monday

Moanin’

On gun violence in the United States

February 19, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout, and I wrote some blues." -Duke Ellington There was another school shooting this past week. This one was at a high school in Parkland, Florida. A disgruntled and clearly disturbed 19-year-old former student arrived on school grounds with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, entered ...

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Eminem vs. Trump

The political importance of the artist

February 18, 2018 • by Lisa Aslanian

I was in Chicago with my son, visiting colleges, and he was listening to the new Eminem album while he was working out in the hotel gym. He told me that he thought the album was great, but that he was not sure if he agreed with Eminem using his ...

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40% of Older Workers and Their Spouses Will Experience Downward Mobility

A SCEPA report

February 17, 2018 • by Teresa Ghilarducci

Inadequate retirement accounts will cause 8.5 million middle-class older workers and their spouses to be downwardly mobile, falling into poverty or near poverty in their old age. Key Findings: Two in five - or 40% - of older workers and their spouses will be downwardly mobile in retirement. If workers ages ...

40% of Older Workers and Their Spouses Will Experience Downward Mobility

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I Love Compromise, But…

Compromise as a Democratic Necessity or as Democracy’s Corruption?

February 16, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Yet, I also know that there is a second meaning to the word compromise, that compromise can be understood as the abandonment of principle, often insuring the continuation of a pressing problem, even making matters worse. Think of the compromises about slavery leading up to the American Civil War. Compromise ...

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System Error

Fighting Online Abuse from Within

February 16, 2018 • by Brooke Foucault Welles

Zoë Quinn is a game developer, programmer, artist, and activist. She is also the victim of Gamergate, an ongoing campaign of targeted harassment levied against Quinn and other women in the video gaming industry. For the uninitiated, Quinn’s experience reads like dystopian science fiction -- an embittered ex-lover fabricated a story ...

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The Nunes Memo, the Stock Market Fall, and the 2018 Winter Olympics

Past Present Episode 118

February 15, 2018 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Neil, Niki, and Natalia debate the Nunes memo and the GOP’s attack on the FBI, the recent stock market plummet, and the prospect of Korean reconciliation through the Winter Olympics.

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The Nunes Memo, the Stock Market Fall, and the 2018 Winter Olympics

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Neoliberalism’s Populist Bastards

A new political divide between national economies

February 15, 2018 • by Quinn Slobodian

This year, attendees at the World Economic Forum might have breathed a sigh of relief, believing that immediate threats to their existence had passed. Yet members of the so-called populist right in Germany and Austria entered parliament after big wins in elections at the end of last year. Their victories ...