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Historians Should Care About Secretary Clinton’s Emails

July 6, 2016 • by Claire Potter

Yesterday FBI Director James Comey's released the report on Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server during her time as Secretary of State. The email habits on Clinton's staff were "extremely careless," Comey noted, but did not reach the threshold for seeking an indictment against Clinton. As CNN reported: Comey said ...

Historians Should Care About Secretary Clinton’s Emails

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Brexit Spawns An Unfortunate Hashtag

July 6, 2016 • by H. Howell Williams

I went to sleep on Thursday, June 23 on a continent, and I woke up Friday on an island. The country that I had lived in for three years, a place that had begun to feel like home, had voted to leave the European Union. And while friends, family members, ...

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Letter from Wroclaw: Remembering Fritz Stern

July 5, 2016 • by Hana Cervinkova

I was born into a world on the cusp of avoidable disaster…. (Fritz Stern, The Five Germanys I Have Known, 2006) Professor Fritz Stern, one of the foremost historians of modern Europe, died on Wednesday, May 18, 2016, in his home in New York. His death is a profound loss to the ...

Letter from Wroclaw: Remembering Fritz Stern

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Never Trump. Maybe Hillary.

July 3, 2016 • by Lisa Aslanian

I cannot get my political bearings. There is little analysis of the current moment that I have not read, and read with appetite. Although much of it is deeply informative and often reiterates my own thoughts -- always good to feel less lonely if less original -- nothing I have ...

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Reflections: Before and After the Brexit Referendum

July 1, 2016 • by Anonymous

A colleague shared his impromptu reflections on Brexit, both before and after the referendum last Thursday. Before Regarding Brexit, basically I think “a plague on both your houses” -- nationalists and liberals. But for now more a plague on the Tory “Leave” side, so severe is the noxious brew that’s been ...

Reflections: Before and After the Brexit Referendum

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Hannah Arendt on American “Social Slavery”

June 30, 2016 • by Steve Cucharo

A few years after fleeing the fascist tidal wave in Europe and finding refuge in New York City, Hannah Arendt penned a letter to her mentor and confidant Karl Jaspers, commenting briefly on the peculiarities of American politics and society. She remarked, “The fundamental contradiction of the country is political ...

Hannah Arendt on American “Social Slavery”

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After the Brexit Vote: Federations, Federal States or Back to the Bad Past?

June 29, 2016 • by Andrew Arato

The electorate of the United Kingdom has voted for an exit from the European Union, suggesting that we may now have to rethink everything on the question of federations. Thus this follow up on my last post. The good news for me is that nothing in my original piece requires fundamental ...

After the Brexit Vote: Federations, Federal States or Back to the Bad Past?

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The Thelma-and-Louise-Gambit

June 28, 2016 • by Laura Nelson

Your car is not working. In fact it is falling apart: it eats up gas, burns oil, grinds the transmission, and wobbles its wheels. You have been taking the car to a mechanic whom you have known for years. He charges a small fortune, and typically, within a week or ...

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Manifesto: In Defense of the Democratic Rule of Law in Brazil

June 28, 2016 • by Miriam M.S. Madureira and Yara Frateschi

Introduction On May 12th 2016, the Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who had been elected in 2014 for a mandate of 4 years, was forced by the Senate, as a result of an impeachment process, to stand down as President of the Republic. Although her removal is supposed to be temporary, lasting up to 180 days, ...

Manifesto: In Defense of the Democratic Rule of Law in Brazil

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Voting Dangerously: Britain, Europe, and the United States

June 27, 2016 • by Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer

Back in 2015, the French woke up having to mobilize against the threat of Marine Le Pen’s National Front party, infamously nationalist and anti-immigrant, after its overwhelming victory in the first round of regional elections in 2015. Earlier that year, Poles elected a president endorsed by the Law and Justice ...

Voting Dangerously: Britain, Europe, and the United States

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Refugee Movements and the Crisis of Europe

Theoretical Interventions

June 24, 2016 • by Silje Kristine Anderson

This panel discussion probes this crisis from a theoretical perspective and discusses its political implications by asking: What follows from this crisis for the European project, the paradoxes of international law, the role of the nation-state, and the resurgence of nationalism? And how does the emergence of new political practices and subjectivities ...

Refugee Movements and the Crisis of Europe

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The Meek, the Weak, and the Complacent: Jewish Reflections on the Ascendency of Donald Trump

June 23, 2016 • by Sanford Schram

As is common these days, I was talking with friends expressing frustration that not enough people were taking Trump seriously as a real threat to our constitutional system should he come to power as President of the United States. Part of the reason surely must be how literally no one ...