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Democrats, Republicans and the Explosive Politics of Health Insurance by Theda Skocpol

Part II Q&A Session

March 16, 2017 • by Zeyno Ustun

For the Part I please visit: https://publicseminar.org/2017/02/democrats-republicans-and-the-explosive-politics-of-health-insurance/#.WLWpRhIrK2w The current debate on the repeal of the Affordable Care Act has once again highlighted healthcare as a divisive issue at the national level. In this climate, healthcare is framed in a variety of ways that escape easy categorization. This national debate cannot be addressed ...

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(Not) Coming to Terms with the Past

Race, Injustice and Social Policy in “Postracial” America

March 15, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

A week later, on March 6th, Ben Carson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), waded into similarly troubled waters when he claimed -- in an address to HUD employees -- “That’s what America is about. A land of dreams and opportunity. There were other immigrants who came here in ...

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Donald Tusk’s Polish Stalker

Jacek Saryusz-Wolski Challenging Tusk for President of European Council

March 15, 2017 • by Sławomir Sierakowski

But then, on February 27, the Financial Times reported that the Polish government was sounding out the possibility of presenting an alternative candidate, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, an MEP from Civic Platform, the party Tusk founded. In the European Parliament, Saryusz-Wolski is a member of the European People’s Party (EPP), which he served as Vice ...

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On Improvisation

Vijay Iyer

March 14, 2017 • by GIDEST

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A Call for Action

Post-Election Activism in the U.S.

March 13, 2017 • by Sandra McGee Deutsch

I am among such scholars. Throughout my career I have specialized in the study of fascism and antifascism. Whether one believes that the belligerent right-wing nationalism we are witnessing today conforms to the definition of fascism or not, the work that I have done seems particularly relevant to understanding the ...

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When Is a Lie a Lie?

Trump, Journalism, and Objectivity

March 13, 2017 • by Ian Olasov

One argument against the Times’ use of “lie” was aired by Mary Louise Kelly on NPR’s Morning Edition. By definition, she says, a lie is “a false statement made with intent to deceive. Intent being the key word there. Without the ability to peer into Donald Trump’s head, I can’t ...

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FIRST 100 DAYS

THE P*SSY MISSILE HAS LAUNCHED

March 8, 2017 • by Jill Gentile

Footnotes: [1] Al-Kassim, D. (2010). On Pain of Speech: Fantasies of the First Order and the Literary Rant. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, p. 11.

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I WILL NOT 3/8/17

Responses from the Women’s Strike

March 8, 2017 • by Julia Ott

Previous Women Strike posts include, Beyond Lean-in and Call to Participate in International Women's Strike Responses by: ...Shut up and smile -- by Mayra Cotta ...Lean in -- by Julienne Obadiah ...Defer to others’ definition of ‘strike’ -- by Cinzia Arruzza ...Accept refusals of my union -- by Sidra Kamran ...Accept institutional hypocrisy -- by Indigo Olivier ...Feel guilty -- by Chiara Bottici ...Publish this ...

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Remembering the Female Sit-Down Strikes of the 1930s

Lessons for Today

March 7, 2017 • by Ivan Greenberg

Students of labor and working class history have searched the past to find examples of female militancy in the workplace, including strike activity. As strikers, women may be very militant, challenging authority of management and even the police, risking arrest for their activism. During the legendary sit-down strikes of 1937, ...

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The Fall of Turkish Democracy

Codifying Autocracy through Constitutional Amendments

March 3, 2017 • by Ertug Tombus

If these amendments are passed at the referendum, their main effect will be to concentrate power in the hands of the President eliminating any remnants of checks and balances, most of which have been rendered ineffective already. Many argue that if it is approved the new Constitution will mean a ...

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Listening to Nixon Fall

A Watergate Summer

March 2, 2017 • by Douglas Crimp

In the spring 1973, I learned that I had been awarded a three-thousand-dollar Art Critics Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. It was only the second round of NEA fellowships for individuals and my third year of writing criticism, so I considered myself incredibly lucky. Three thousand dollars ...