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Progressives and the Court

A Response to Samuel Moyn’s “Resisting the Juristocracy”

October 18, 2018 • by Andrew Seal

There’s an old saying among lawyers: When you have the facts on your side, pound on the facts. When you have the law on your side, pound on the law. When you have neither, pound on the table. At first glance, that seems to be Samuel Moyn’s counsel in a widely shared Boston ...

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Is Elizabeth Warren Native American?

What the DNA controversy reveals about race, identity politics, and the Native American present

October 17, 2018 • by Claire Potter

It’s Monday morning. I open up my Twitter feed and see the video Elizabeth Warren made to answer charges made by Donald Trump, taken up by Trump enthusiasts everywhere, that she has pretended to be a Native American. I thought: this video is pretty good. If you haven’t seen it, you ...

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We Are All Fast Food Workers Now

An interview with Annelise Orleck

October 17, 2018 • by Annelise Orleck and Josh Maserow

In We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now, Annelise Orleck traces a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe. Orleck illuminates globalization as seen through the eyes of worker-activists: small farmers, fast-food servers, retail workers, hotel housekeepers, home-healthcare aides, airport workers, and adjunct professors who are fighting ...

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George Soros, “Grievance Studies,” and Bavarian Hipsterism

Episode 150 LIVE!

October 16, 2018 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki discuss the right’s obsession with George Soros conspiracy theories, the recent “grievance studies” hoax, and the rise of Bavarian folk dress as a form of hipsterism. Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Financier and philanthropist George Soros is increasingly ...

George Soros, “Grievance Studies,” and Bavarian Hipsterism

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For Immigrants, It’s Increasingly Home, Home In The ‘Burbs

New York suburbs are attracting newcomers

October 16, 2018 • by Kristen Lewis and Sarah Burd-Sharps

It’s no news that New York City, home to Ellis Island and long the gateway for immigrants into the United States, continues to attract newcomers. But what is new is how much the suburbs of New York have become immigrant magnets as well. Of the country’s 100 largest metropolitan areas, greater New ...

For Immigrants, It’s Increasingly Home, Home In The ‘Burbs

Blue Monday

Getting Millennials to the Polls

An Extra-Credit Assignment on Voting and Citizenship

October 15, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

As commentators across the political spectrum agree, the upcoming U.S. elections on Election Day, November 6, are very important in determining the future of American democracy. Readers of this column know that the only filter on my political opinions is the filter of language itself. I say what I think. I ...

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Rethinking Charlottesville in Light of Unite the Right II

Shut down the Alt-Right, don’t debate it.

October 15, 2018 • by Elena Gagovska

More than a year after Charlottesville, some of the alt-right’s stances -- in one form or another -- have entered into the mainstream conservative platform. As this has happened I have become more and more convinced that debating these extremists is not the solution. In fact, I argued for not ...

Rethinking Charlottesville in Light of Unite the Right II

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Plastics and Fossil Fuels

Follow the History of Technological Systems

October 13, 2018 • by Simon Pirani

Plastics have a history too. David Attenborough’s magnificent Blue Planet II TV series, which last year jolted public anger over plastic waste in the oceans, focused attention on a bunch of materials that hardly existed a century ago. Output of plastics has mushroomed since the mid twentieth century, on the back ...

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The Persons Among People in 1787

Why the U.S. Constitution contained within itself a promise that became a lie

October 12, 2018 • by Julie J. Miller

In the spring of 1787, a group of men met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to revise the Articles of Confederation and ended up drafting the United States Constitution. That convention dissolved itself about four months later, on September 17, when work, some said, was finished, and the paper signed at that ...

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The Majority Finds Its School

The lessons of Gerda Lerner

October 11, 2018 • by Julia Foulkes

In the fall of 1962, Gerda Lerner offered a pioneering course in women’s history at the New School, titled “Great Women in American History.” Such a course may have occurred at Radcliffe College in the 1930s, and perhaps at other women’s colleges, but Lerner’s course at the New School was ...

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Kavanaugh Protests Continue to the End

‘Sexual Predators on the Court, Hell no, We Don’t Support’

October 10, 2018 • by Jo Freeman

Protests against the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to become a Justice of the Supreme Court resumed on Thursday, October 4, and continued through Saturday, October 6 when he was officially sworn in. While the protesters were still mostly women, more younger women came than in September, dropping the average age of the protesters ...

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Exiled Knowledge Salvaged for World Use

The histories hidden in the New School’s digital archives

October 10, 2018 • by Mark Larrimore

The histories of an iconoclastic institution aren’t easy to trace. The New School has always been diffuse, porous and underfunded. Until recently, The New School didn’t even have an archive. So the fifty-seven volumes of publicity scrapbooks maintained by a clipping service for the school’s first several decades -- and ...