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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 ...

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White European Women’s Rights

France’s Paradoxical Women’s Liberation

March 1, 2017 • by Hannah Leffingwell

While Clinton ran on the notion that “women’s rights are human rights,” Le Pen’s slogan might best be summed up as “women’s rights are white European women’s rights.” Employing xenophobic rhetoric all too familiar to Americans under the Trump administration, Le Pen has become the face of contemporary French nationalism, ...

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Totalitarianism

Historical Regime or Bio-Power Intimate Vocation?

February 28, 2017 • by Simona Forti

Coined in 1923 by Giovanni Amendola -- a strong opponent of Mussolini’s fascism -- the term has had a very interesting history. I retraced the genealogy of the concept, from Carl Friedrich and Zbigniew Brzezinki[1] in the first half of the 1950s, to Norman Davies[2] at the end of the ...

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Trumpism

How Should the Left Respond?

February 27, 2017 • by David Maddy

The Democratic Party has lost the Presidency, majority control of Congress, and an alarming number of state governorships and legislatures. In contrast, the Republican Party seems poised to ideologically control the remaining branch of federal government through the appointment of a Supreme Court judge. With the Democratic Party flat on ...

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What Brazilian Democracy Needs

The country cannot advance until it has accountable political leadership

February 27, 2017 • by Sebastião Ventura Pereira da Paixão

If we look at Brazilian politics, we see that the few destroy the lives of the many, condemning our country to backwardness, poverty and thievery. Indeed, they are very few. The problem is that these few are organized and empowered in their usurpation of republican institutions. From time to time, ...

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“Focus on the Issues, Not on Trump?” NOT!

How the Trump Administration is waging war against the Media

February 25, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

The right-wing version of this, expressed by conservative MSNBC talk-show host Joe Scarborough but also by his MSNBC colleague Chuck Todd, goes something like this (I paraphrase): “Trump’s antics are distracting him from attending to the substantive policy issues of his campaign. He is needlessly making enemies of the press, ...