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A Year Later, Democrats Roar Back

Post-election analysis, and inaugurating Purple Wednesday

November 8, 2017 • by Claire Potter

It wasn't just Donald Trump's unexpected win over Hillary Clinton, but the year of political rancor and division that had set me adrift. I have friends and colleagues, mostly those who -- quite properly -- viewed Clinton's defeat as a bitter reflection of their own encounters with sexism, and who ...

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Rousseau and Critical Theory

An excerpt from Alessandro Ferrara’s latest book

November 8, 2017 • by Alessandro Ferrara

Among the modern philosophers who have shaped the world we inhabit, Rousseau is the one to whom we owe the idea that identity can be a source of normativity (moral and political) and that an identity's potential for playing such a role rests on its capacity for being authentic. The idea ...

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John Reed, Romantic Revolutionary

The persistent timeliness of the poet and activist

November 7, 2017 • by Robert Rosenstone

October 22, was the 130th anniversary of his birth. He only lived to the age of 33, but in those few years he accomplished the work of more than a single lifetime. For the next half century Ten Days would define how much of the world came to understand the ...

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The People’s Disruption

Platform Co-ops for Global Challenges

November 7, 2017 • by Trebor Scholz

The first platform cooperativism event in 2015 popularized the #platformcoop concept, and the conference a year later brought together co-op and union leaders to push the model forward. This third event will zero in on ways that platform cooperatives can help to address some of the future's most urgent challenges. ...

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Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique: Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser

A book excerpt from Banu Bargu and Chiara Bottici

November 7, 2017 • by Banu Bargu and Chiara Bottici

What has followed is a veritable revival of research on different aspects of capitalism (see, for example, Piketty 2013; Stiglitz 2013). While the movement away from the predominantly culturalist perspectives toward the register of materiality has been welcomed by many, this turn to the material sphere has not exactly been ...

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Towards Our Fugitive Striving

A Note from the Editors

November 6, 2017 • by Deva Woodly and Christopher Paul Harris

The Context We understand that race is made through the brutal craft of white supremacy: a political, social, economic, and interpersonal formation that both requires and produces anti-blackness to sustain itself. Equally clear to us is that racial “knowledge,” in all its forms, continues to structure our collective experience, both in ...

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Reductio ad Absurdum

Zero-Hours Contracts, Bogus ‘Self-Employment’, and Welfare ‘Conditionality’ in the UK

November 6, 2017 • by Christian Garland

Bogus ‘self-employment’, takes two main forms: the first is known as the ‘gig economy,’ and involves companies such as Uber, Deliveroo, and Hermes making use of the labor of those who are classified as ‘independent contractors’, rather than employees. The fact that these independent contractors earn less than the minimum ...

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Older Workers’ Gender Gap in Paid vs Unpaid Work Hurts Women’s Retirement Savings

October 2017 Unemployment Report for Workers Over 55

November 5, 2017 • by Teresa Ghilarducci

Both men and women ages 55-64 spend the same amount of time working each week -- 47.9 hours a week for men and 48 hours a week for women -- including both paid work in the labor market and unpaid household work. But of this total, men spend more time in ...

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Girl Scouts, #MeToo, and HIV/AIDS

Past Present Episode 104

November 4, 2017 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Natalia, Niki, and Neil discuss the Girl Scouts in light of the Boy Scouts’ recent decision to admit girls, #MeToo activism, and how Michael Friedman’s recent death of HIV/AIDS helps us understand the illness in historical context.

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The Times They Are a Changin’?

The Halloween Attack in New York and the Prospects for Democracy

November 3, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

I hope that the global march of authoritarianism, with Donald Trump in the vanguard, is a momentary reaction that will be overwhelmed by a broad democratic front, one that rejects xenophobia, terror, irrationality and fear. But, I also know that the authoritarian turn, a radical reinvention of political culture, is ...

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Pentagon Anti-war March

50 years later Vietnam War protestors reunite

November 3, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

On October 21, 1967 some 50,000 people marched on the Pentagon to "Confront the Warmakers" about the War in Vietnam. Fifty years later about one hundred of them met in DC to commemorate the event. They began the evening of October 20 with a small rally in front of the Pentagon. After a couple speeches, ...

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Cultural Studies Threatened in Poland

An Interview with Ewa Majewska

November 2, 2017 • by McKenzie Wark

Ewa Majewska, could you first sketch out for me a little about your own work? I am a feminist philosopher who is currently working on theories of subaltern counter-publics in the peripheries, weak resistances, and the avant-gardes. I am also interested in the resistance to fascism, and for this some Habermassian belief ...