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The Rise of Neo-Conservative Think Tanks in Israel

The brief history of a peculiar context

October 29, 2018 • by Ben Weinberg

It was 2009, and the Institute for Zionist Strategies (IZS) had a problem. Over the previous two decades Israel’s judiciary had grown increasingly, and to the IZS unacceptably, liberal and activist. Taking note of a number of rulings that had promoted greater formal equality among citizens, the IZS began considering how it might prevent the Israeli Supreme ...

The Rise of Neo-Conservative Think Tanks in Israel

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Welcome the stranger. Defend democracy. And defend ourselves.

Some perhaps surprising initial thoughts about the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

October 28, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

First things first. The shootings are despicable and outrageous, and they are both awful in themselves and a symptom of a much deeper and more extensive poison that is being spread throughout the country by Donald Trump and by every politician, whether Republican or Democrat, who in any way draws from ...

Welcome the stranger. Defend democracy. And defend ourselves.

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A Policy U-Turn Steers Toward A New Day For New York’s For-Hire Drivers

New York is the first in the nation to enact legislation upping minimum pay for drivers

October 28, 2018 • by James Parrott

While Manhattan traffic often crawls and stalls, New York City officials have put the pedal to the metal on actions designed to improve pay and working conditions for thousands of for-hire vehicle (FHV) and taxi drivers. In August, New York became the nation’s first city to enact legislation calling for a ...

A Policy U-Turn Steers Toward A New Day For New York’s For-Hire Drivers

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A reflection on sex work

October 28, 2018 • by Amaya Olivas Díaz

On July 31, 2018, the BOE issued a resolution whereby the Ministry of Labor formalized the constitution of the OTRAS union (Sex Workers Organization), under Art. 28 of the EC, which establishes the fundamental right to unionize freely. In line with this news, many voices put the cry in the sky, ...

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The Brazilian Trump?

Bolsonaro’s inflammatory rhetoric leaves the country polarized, its future uncertain

October 27, 2018 • by Marc Hertzman

If Donald Trump’s electoral victory hit some in the U.S. like a runaway truck, Brazilians are experiencing a process that feels more like a slow-moving steamroller crawling gradually but inexorably towards electoral triumph and—it is not hard to imagine—the subsequent crushing of hard-won rights and democratic institutions. The steamroller is Jair ...

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The Democrats’ Dilemma

Looking ahead to 2020

October 27, 2018 • by John Lawrence

Although the crucial mid-term elections are a mere two weeks away, it never takes long before most political conversations turn to the question of the 2020 Democratic nominee. So while the outcome of 2018’s contests is still very much up in the air, let’s focus on an election still two ...

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This Fight Would Take Place Someday

An impassioned appeal for resoluteness in the face of right wing reaction

October 26, 2018 • by Vladimir Pinheiro Safatle

This text is for those who weep for what is about to come. It was written for those who perceive the darkest of nights arriving with its violence, its scorn and its appetite for vengeance. Because in these moments only two alternatives seem possible: escape and melancholy. We know the ...

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How Does Animation Change our Concept of Life and What Kind of Ethics Does it Require?

A Conversation with Media Historian and Theorist Deborah Levitt

October 26, 2018 • by Deborah Levitt and Bettine Josties

Public Seminar (PS): Deborah, in your recently published book The Animatic Apparatus. Animation, Vitality, and the Futures of the Image you claim that animation is the dominant medium of our time and propose the concept of the animatic apparatus as a dispositif, that is, as a kind of organizing mechanics for contemporary culture. Can ...

How Does Animation Change our Concept of Life and What Kind of Ethics Does it Require?

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What is the Crisis a Crisis of?

To characterize our republic’s predicament as one of democracy is an authoritarian fantasy

October 25, 2018 • by Seyla Benhabib

Reading Hannah Arendt’s Crises of the Republic in the Age of Trump: A Symposium Hannah Arendt’s Crises of the Republic is not so much a book as a collection, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1972, of three essays and an interview that first appeared, individually, in the years between 1969 and 1971. Three of ...

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In Search of an Ethics for the Age of Animation

An Excerpt from Media Historian and Theorist Deborah Levitt’s Latest Book

October 25, 2018 • by Deborah Levitt

In her recently published book The Animatic Apparatus. Animation, Vitality, and the Futures of the Image media historian and theorist Deborah Levitt claims that animation is the dominant medium of our time and proposes the concept of the animatic apparatus as an organizing mechanics for contemporary culture. In the following excerpt from ...

In Search of an Ethics for the Age of Animation

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Tempest Tossed

Is the US a ‘safe country’ for asylum-seekers?: A conversation with Professor Sean Rehaag on new challenges to the US-Canada

October 24, 2018 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Under an agreement signed in 2002, Canada can return asylum-seekers to the US if they have traveled through the US or lived there prior to arriving in Canada. Recent policies north and south of the US-Canadian border pose new challenges to the agreement, as Sean Rehaag, professor at Osgoode Hall ...

From the Editors

The Rise of Neo-Conservative Think Tanks in Israel

The brief history of a peculiar context

Welcome the stranger. Defend democracy. And defend ourselves.

Some perhaps surprising initial thoughts about the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

A Policy U-Turn Steers Toward A New Day For New York’s For-Hire Drivers

New York is the first in the nation to enact legislation upping minimum pay for drivers

Others

A reflection on sex work

The Brazilian Trump?

Bolsonaro’s inflammatory rhetoric leaves the country polarized, its future uncertain

The Democrats’ Dilemma

Looking ahead to 2020

This Fight Would Take Place Someday

An impassioned appeal for resoluteness in the face of right wing reaction

How Does Animation Change our Concept of Life and What Kind of Ethics Does it Require?

A Conversation with Media Historian and Theorist Deborah Levitt

What is the Crisis a Crisis of?

To characterize our republic’s predicament as one of democracy is an authoritarian fantasy

In Search of an Ethics for the Age of Animation

An Excerpt from Media Historian and Theorist Deborah Levitt’s Latest Book

Tempest Tossed

Is the US a ‘safe country’ for asylum-seekers?: A conversation with Professor Sean Rehaag on new challenges to the US-Canada

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The brief history of a peculiar context

Some perhaps surprising initial thoughts about the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

New York is the first in the nation to enact legislation upping minimum pay for drivers

A reflection on sex work

Bolsonaro’s inflammatory rhetoric leaves the country polarized, its future uncertain

Looking ahead to 2020

Transgender, the non-binary and the Radical Center

An impassioned appeal for resoluteness in the face of right wing reaction

A Conversation with Media Historian and Theorist Deborah Levitt

To characterize our republic’s predicament as one of democracy is an authoritarian fantasy

An Excerpt from Media Historian and Theorist Deborah Levitt’s Latest Book

Is the US a ‘safe country’ for asylum-seekers?: A conversation with Professor Sean Rehaag on new challenges to the US-Canada

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