Anti-Trump Marches Across the Country

Droves turn out to Protest

Washington, DC 1,000,000 Los Angeles 750,000 New York City 400,000 Chicago 250,000 Boston 175,000 Seattle 120,000 Denver 200,000 San Francisco 100,000 Twin Cities 100,000 Portland (Oregon) 100,000 Madison (Wisc) 75,000 Oakland 100,000 Atlanta 60,000 Philadelphia 50,000 Austin 50,000 San Diego 40,000 San Jose 25,000 Des Moines 25,000 Sacramento 20,000 Houston 20,000 Phoenix 20,000 Nashville 15,000 Cleveland 15,000 Ft. Worth 15,000 Pittsburgh 15,000 Omaha 12,000 Miami 10,000 Charlotte 10,000 New Orleans 10,000 St. Louis 10,000 Dallas 8,000 Honolulu 8,000 Memphis 6,000 Oklahoma City 6,000 Las ...
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Why We’re Not Re-living The Interwar Years

We’re back in the 19th century

In many accounts, the historical parallel between our time and the interwar period refers to both the economic conditions of the two periods, i.e. a major international economic crisis, and to a lesser extent, to the political situation, namely the rise of far right and far left parties. This analogy, like ...
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Who’s Afraid of Workplace Democracy?

Research indicates cooperatives manage resources just as efficiently

What is so remarkable when it comes to Weil’s notion of oppression is that she insists that oppression is inherent to managerial practice. Her work offers an ethical basis for the critical analysis of management, science, and expertise. One of her famous quotes reads, “When someone exposes himself as a ...
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Fighting Over and On the Streets of New York

A Review of the ‘Whose Streets? Our Streets!’ Exhibition

“Whose Streets” features the work of thirty-eight independent photojournalists who documented -- and participated in -- protests in New York from 1980-2000. The issues ranged from housing, abortion rights, housing, queer activism, AIDS, education and labor, police brutality, race relations, the war and environment -- there were a lot, and ...
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Fascism in America?

Recalling the Know-Nothings and Individual Responsibility

A prevalent answer to these questions among leftist academics and commentators has been a qualified “yes.” Many view the rhetoric and proposed policies of the new administration as blatantly fascistic in character. I wish to argue that this is incorrect and that using fascism as the central critical concept in ...
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Before the War Ended

A short story by Kay Hoff

Kay Hoff is a German author born in 1924 in Neustadt/Holstein, a town in northern Germany by the Baltic Sea. In 1941, when he was seventeen, Kay and all fifteen of his classmates voluntarily applied to join the army just six months before they graduated from high school. Due to ...
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When Politics Invades the Personal

A New Mandate for Psychoanalysis in the Trump Era

James arrives at his session, bleary-eyed, having stayed up very late to hear the results of the 2016 presidential election. He doesn’t speak, but instead begins playing a recording of Judy Collins singing. As the song ends, he quietly repeats the refrain: The weight of the world, too heavy to lift ...
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Why Dr. Ben Carson Should Not Be Confirmed as HUD Secretary

An open letter to Senators Michael Crapo and Sherrod Brown

We, the undersigned, strongly oppose the appointment of Dr. Ben Carson as the next Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.  Apart from his personal views on a variety of political and social issues, we consider Dr. Carson completely unqualified to anticipate or promote appropriate solutions to ...
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Interposition in the Age of Trump

Rethinking States’ Rights

In 1798, Congress passed the famous Alien and Sedition Acts. These four bills made citizenship more difficult for new immigrants, gave the President expansive deportation powers, and turned criticism of the federal government into a criminal act. (Sound familiar?) In response, James Madison wrote a series of resolutions ultimately adopted ...
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The Room Where It Happens

Jeff Sessions Testifies

If any of Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees are turned back, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is not going to be among them. Sessions, at the age of 70 still the "junior" Senator from Alabama, was one of three nominees to begin the confirmation process yesterday. While he faced skepticism, and even anger, ...
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