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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 ...

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Why the House and Senate Tax Bills Spell Disaster for Graduate Students

The GOP tax bill will raise the barrier to entry for American graduate education

December 13, 2017 • by Emanuele Citera

Even though the measure enacted by the Senate still has to be reconciled with the House-passed version, the following repercussions are expected to occur. Firstly, the bill will affect charitable giving, which allows colleges and universities to fulfill their teaching, research and public service missions. Currently, the deductions for charitable ...

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The Precarious Economic Lives of Older Women Workers

November 2017 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55

December 12, 2017 • by Teresa Ghilarducci

Almost half (48%) of older working women without a college degree are working in low-paying jobs - earning less than $15 an hour - compared to 29% of similarly situated men.1Older women without a college degree earn a median hourly wage of $15.50 compared to $18.75 for men. One reason older women work ...

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The Time of Trump in the Center of the World

Trump year 1

December 12, 2017 • by Reid Mitchell

I live in China. I've been here for about eight years. Yes, I used to have an academic career in the States, but then I decided to write full-time. Finding myself in need of a job, I wound up here in China, or, as I have learned to call it, Zhōngguó. And ...

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In Memoriam

Ashbery’s poetic cosmopolitanism

December 11, 2017 • by David Micah Greenberg

Rimbaud’s Illuminations also presents the city as object of inspiration and denigration. Take the opening of “Metropolitan” (here translated by Ashbery): From the indigo strait to the seas of Ossian, on the pink and orange sand bathed by the wine-colored sky, crystal boulevards rise up and intersect, immediately populated by poor ...

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Against Jason Brennan’s Book

A response to ‘Against Democracy’

December 11, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

I will begin with a short prefatory comment about the occasion for this discussion at this particular moment in the intellectual history of the US. I will then outline four points in criticism of Brennan’s argument as presented in his book, whose title — Against Democracy — he is obliged, I submit, to own: ...

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Swing Left

Trump year 1

December 10, 2017 • by Mete Egemen

I am originally from Turkey and I became a United States citizen in 2005. Since then, I have voted in all elections, primary, odd year, midterms and general. I am active with Swing Left PA-07. You might say I am bit of a political junkie. People ask me why I got ...