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Podemos or the Rise of Progressive Patriotism in Spain

An Interview with Íñigo Errejón

December 19, 2017 • by Gerardo Muñoz

Muñoz: Íñigo let me begin by thanking you for taking this time to speak with me about the current state of Podemos for a North American audience. Podemos is a relatively young political organization that emerged in 2014. In a matter of months, it became the second most powerful political force ...

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Russian Absurd

A glimpse into the notebooks of the modernist avant-garde artist Daniil Kharms translated from the Russian by Alex Cigale

December 18, 2017 • by Alex Cigale

From the Letters (1933) Monday October 16, 1933. Petersburg. Talent grows, destroying, building. The sign of stagnation is well-being. Dear Klavdia Vasilevna, You are a remarkable and genuine person! As much as it grieves me not to be able to see you, I won’t be inviting you to the Children’s Theater or to come to my city. How heartwarming ...

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Utopoly

A utopian design game

December 18, 2017 • by Neil Farnan

Since Hayek’s Road to Serfdom managed to conflate planning with totalitarianism, the use of design in utopian discourse can cause concern in some quarters, suggesting a master-plan or blueprint model. However, Hayek’s concern was with the failure of planning rather than its success. The irony was that a key component of capitalist ...

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How I Survived 2017

Trump year 1

December 16, 2017 • by Noralee Frankel

On November 9, at two in the morning, I turned on the computer and saw that Clinton had lost the election. My whole body shook for hours, unlike anything I had ever experienced. In the following three days, I expressed my rage on Facebook and ultimately was unfriended by someone ...

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Terrorism and Talk

Everyday Life and Public Seminar after the Explosion Under the Port Authority Bus Terminal, the Election of Doug Jones and “Tax Reform”

December 15, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

I sat down to breakfast with Naomi, my wife: she reading the paper, we listening to the news bulletins. They were still vague. It was not known yet what the cause of the explosion was. At one point, the news announcer slipped and called the incident an attack, but then ...

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Getting Centered Since Last November 9

Trump year 1

December 15, 2017 • by Barbara Winslow

Since last year’s election catastrophe, I continue to struggle with coping. I have increased my contributions to organizations involving reproductive justice, immigrant rights, the environment, peace, racial justice, and progressive electoral politics. I attend demonstrations at least once a month and am involved in more grassroots community and neighborhood organizations. ...

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African American Evangelicals Vote Too

Democrats know there is more than one type of Christian voter

December 15, 2017 • by Neil J. Young

If ever there were an election that was lost rather than won, it was this one. In what should have been a cakewalk for the Republicans – Donald Trump won the state by twenty-eight points in 2016, after all, and Alabama hasn’t sent a Democrat to the Senate since 1992 ...

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DREAMers and Unions Rally at the Capital

Activists take to DC streets

December 14, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

On December 6, about two thousand union members and immigrants rallied at the nation's capitol to demand that young immigrants be allowed to stay in the US without fear of deportation. They want a DREAM Act which will provide a pathway to citizenship for young undocumented immigrants. In September, Donald Trump announced ...

DREAMers and Unions Rally at the Capital

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Title IX Investigations and Sexual Harassment at The New School

A letter from the editors of Public Seminar

December 14, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb and Claire Potter

A faculty member has resigned from The New School for Social Research prior to the conclusion of a Title IX investigation. We have received inquiries from faculty and students who wish to publish at Public Seminar responses and reflections about sexual harassment at our own university. This is new territory for us as ...

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How Utopia Became a Real Estate Leaflet?

Discursive formation of branded housing projects in Turkey

December 14, 2017 • by Bilge Serin

When it comes to gated communities, recurrences of similar everyday life images and spatial representations in mass media form a discourse of the future everyday life. It depicts an ideal living environment that aligns neoliberalization with an idealization of private urban services, commodified forms of housing production, enclave living and ...

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Alabama, Goddamn

Join the progressives who rallied the vote for Doug Jones

December 13, 2017 • by Claire Potter

Goddamn. I mean, goddamn! I just want to come on down and hug all of you. Welcome back to Purple America, Alabama. We love you. OK -- without Wikipedia, can you name the last Senator elected as a Democrat from Alabama? If you said "Howell Heflin" you win. Heflin, who was first elected ...