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Who Knew Running Yahoo Was So Hard?

Marissa Mayer Takes One for the Team

June 5, 2017 • by Claire Potter

As we begin to think about writing the history of the Age of Trump, my advice is to follow the money. For example, answer this question: how do CEOs make a fortune by killing businesses and putting working and middle class people on the unemployment line? If your answer is "Sending ...

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The Radical Imagination

Imagining the future in financial capitalism

June 2, 2017 • by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou and Chiara Bottici

Architectural fantasy stimulates the architect’s activity, it arouses creative thought not only for the artist but it also educates and arouses all those who come in contact with him; it produces new directions, new quests, and opens new horizons. Iakov Chernikhov (1933), ‘101 architectural fantasies’ Why the radical imagination? Today more than ...

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Not Everything Political is Politics

Reflection on the March for Science

June 2, 2017 • by Mark B. Brown

Mark B. Brown is a professor in the Department of Political Science at California State University, Sacramento. He is the author of Science in Democracy: Expertise, Institutions, and Representation (MIT Press, 2009), as well as various publications on the politics of expertise, political representation, and climate change.

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Hanged at Sunrise

The Impossible Ethics of the “Homeland”

May 31, 2017 • by Lisa Aslanian

Nicholas Brody, one of the central characters of the popular and critically acclaimed drama Homeland, is a third generation United States Marine. Called Brody by his friends, Brody’s entire character is created around and through the interrelated issues of drones, torture and jihad. As the drama unfolds, Brody becomes a ...

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Finding Refuge

When Secure Borders Are Not the Answer

May 30, 2017 • by Anne McNevin and Klaus Neumann

As countries in the global North fortify their borders against irregular migrants from the global South, border walls proliferate. Argentina constructed a wall at its border with Paraguay. Hungary recently erected a second, electrified fence at its border with Serbia. And Donald Trump’s administration is still committed to building at ...

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Recovering Community: Part II

Remembering the Jungle at Jules Ferry

May 26, 2017 • by Siraj Izhar

In its time at Jules Ferry, the Jungle crossed a threshold in the nature of its transgression as a political subject. This transgression was its establishment of community. What the Jungle came to embody in political form was a common project; common, that is, in two senses of the word. ...

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Casablanca at 75

A Refugee Story

May 25, 2017 • by Public Seminar

Zolberg Institute Presents: Casablanca at 75: A refugee story April 04th, 7pm-10pm, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Room 202, 55 West 13th Street. Casablanca is one of classical Hollywood's greatest romances, but its underlying story concerns the plight of European refugees, an unusually timely, urgent theme for today. This event, which focuses on the ...

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May Day

Washington D.C.

May 24, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

Different groups with different themes marched from different places to rally together in Lafayette Square in front of the White House. The largest of these was organized by SEIU and CASA. Its theme was immigration, and current policies opposed to immigration. In addition to unions, religious and Latino groups were ...

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Recovering Community: Part I

Remembering the Jungle at Jules Ferry

May 23, 2017 • by Siraj Izhar

We know the scene; there is a gathering, and someone is telling a story. We do not yet know whether these people gathered together form an assembly, if they are a horde or a tribe. But we call them brothers and sisters because they are gathered together and because they ...

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Step Up, Rise Up, and Reimagine a Radically Just World

A Commencement Address to the Graduates of Eugene Lang College

May 22, 2017 • by Alexandra Délano Alonso

Step up. Rise Up. Stand Up. ACT Up. Show Up. Wake Up. Wise Up. Speak Up. The moment we are living in is demanding so much of us: to be present, to listen, to challenge, to act. But how do we respond when everything we stand for is under attack? ...

Step Up, Rise Up, and Reimagine a Radically Just World

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When Fascists Break into Parliament

A Reflection on the Crisis in Skopje

May 19, 2017 • by Elena Gagovska

When fascists break into your country’s parliament you feel like you’ve been talking about right-wing populism in academic settings for far too long. You feel like you’ve been talking about the causes and the cures of something just getting underway in the West, all while this is the only kind of ...