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Is Abortion Candy?

Abortion is not a vice and every attempt to legislate it is a failure

November 30, 2016 • by Marianne Le Nabat

Abortion worked its way into this past election, just like it did with every other election for the past few decades. Clinton said she believes in upholding Roe v Wade; Trump still wants to overturn it (but considers the question of marriage equality “settled”). In a series of debates that ...

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From A Despised Elitist

November 29, 2016 • by David Anderegg

So, I’m a despised elitist? This bemusing, tragicomic motif in the aftermath of the Trump victory is heard over and over among the white Rust-Belter diaspora. Living here in deep blue Massachusetts, I know people from all over Trump country: Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin (my home state), Michigan… all over the Midwest. ...

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Moral and Political Competence, Redux

The View from the Rubble

November 28, 2016 • by Michael Weinman

Last spring, when the Democratic primary was still somewhat in doubt, and people worried about the “bruising” primary season damaging the likely standard bearer in the general election, I suggested that the center/center-left/left coalition needed to hear out the debate between Sanders and Clinton. I argued that this was sound ...

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What Died in Cuba with Fidel Castro’s Death?

November 27, 2016 • by Haroldo Dilla Alfonso

From Santiago, Chile. Fidel Castro has died. Alongside him, the last poster of the great 20th century revolutions has come down from the wall of history. I am not saying that I share the conservatives’ oneiric eagerness concerning the end of revolutions. They will keep on coming as long as -- and ...

What Died in Cuba with Fidel Castro’s Death?

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Maximizing Risk and Uncertainty in a Changing World

Notes on Volatility in Cultures of Finance

November 25, 2016 • by Ben Lee

One of the most remarkable contemporary developments has been the rise of what might be called a “politics of volatility” in which volatility is deliberately produced to take advantage of the uncertainty it creates. Its current embodiment is Donald Trump. Like the efficient market that he embraces, in the primaries, ...

Maximizing Risk and Uncertainty in a Changing World

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What Do You Do with a Massacre?

Grenadians Vote on Constitutional Reforms 33 years After the Assassination of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop

November 22, 2016 • by Atiba L. Rougier

Nine years ago, I came across this article: “Remembering That Fateful Day” by Michael D. Roberts, published in Carib-News (October 23, 2007). It had been 24 years since the killing of Grenadian prime minister Maurice Bishop and his cabinet members on Fort Rupert, in the parish of St. George’s, on ...

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The Resistible Rise of Fascists Today

Trump, Erdoğan, Zizek, and All of Us?

November 22, 2016 • by Tomasz Kitlinski

This won’t be just four years; we are going to re-elect Trump. Perhaps it’s just a pessimism that has possessed me, but it seems that we -- the whole we, the global human race -- it seems to me, that we have turned servile. That we have become subservient and substandard ...

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Peace-ing Colombia Together

Colombia’s Aftermath in Rejecting the Peace Deal Referendum

November 21, 2016 • by Maria Carrizosa

But the Colombian tragedy is more convoluted still. Over the last month we have lived a political and moral rollercoaster. First was the joy of having the peace treaty signed, then the perplexity and frustration of the plebiscite result, followed by anxiety about the political limbo it created. Sadness grew ...

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Family and Friends

Another Thought About Donald Trump’s Authoritarianism

November 20, 2016 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

Family and friends. We all have them, or at least most of the time we want them. In colloquial terms, family and friends offer support, love, and joy. They constitute a sphere of personal intimacy that makes a life more meaningful. The support of family and friends helps us to ...

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Remaking the Rust Belt

The Postindustrial Transformation of North America

November 20, 2016 • by Vince Carducci

The decline of American manufacturing and what to do about it has been a key topic in the current election cycle. The demise of the nation's industrial plant, and its implications for manufacturing cities such as Detroit, Akron, and Pittsburgh, has often been seen as inevitable, a result of blind ...

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Politicizing and Practicing Motherhood

Why We Should Care What Phyllis Schlafly Served Her Kids for Breakfast

November 19, 2016 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

This article was originally posted at Process, the OAH blog, on October 18, 2016. “I’d like to burn you at the stake,” pioneering feminist Betty Friedan famously spat at conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly during a 1973 debate about the Equal Rights Amendment. Her loathing reflected the recognition of a formidable opponent. Though ...

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Vera Zolberg

November 19, 2016 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

On Tuesday, November 15, 2016, my dear friend and colleague, Vera Zolberg, died. Her vast network of relatives, friends, colleagues and students are mourning a truly wonderful person. As a sociologist, she was a beloved teacher, mentor, author, scholar, colleague and friend, in the deep meaning of that underappreciated word. ...