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A Call for International Solidarity

On the fight for immigrant and refugee justice

August 16, 2018 • by Elena Gagovska

About a month and a half ago I applied for an American tourist visa at the U.S. embassy in Skopje, Macedonia, because I plan on visiting my boyfriend there during fall break. Admittedly, I felt a little resentful of the process. Security guards with guns they weren’t going to use ...

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The Watergate Babies

What the Congressional Class of 1974 can teach us about political change

August 15, 2018 • by Claire Potter and John Lawrence

It is less than ninety days until election day in the United States, when Democrats hope to achieve one of the biggest sweeps of Congressional seats in recent American history. Many of these Democratic hopefuls are veterans. As longtime political strategist Joe Trippi put it back in March, these are ...

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Gender Reveal Party Fail

On Cisnormativity and its disruptions

August 15, 2018 • by Emily Breitkopf

In late 2016, a YouTube video entitled “Gender Reveal Party Fail” went viral. The video shows a couple named Joe and Leela Krummel standing over a large box covered in pastel pink and blue polka dots. During the brief 31-second clip, you can hear a group of people chat excitedly ...

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Rethinking the Human in the Digital Age

An Excerpt from Patricia Ticineto Clough’s latest book

August 14, 2018 • by Patricia Ticineto Clough

A commentary by Ticineto Clough on her latest book, in which she puts her concept of the user unconscious in relation to Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto”, can be found here. The turns in philosophy, media studies, and critical theory to the posthuman, the nonhuman, and the ahuman befit both a post-national ...

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LIVE! Latinos in the Hamptons, Grift, and Rosé Wine

Past Present Episode 143

August 14, 2018 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Natalia, Niki, and Neil discuss the history of Latinos in the Hamptons, the problem of grift in Washington, and the sudden popularity of rosé wine. Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Latino immigration has transformed Eastern Long Island. Natalia referenced this New York Times article on the political ...

LIVE! Latinos in the Hamptons, Grift, and Rosé Wine

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Queer Donald Trump and the Paradoxes of Power

What does Trump’s willingness to snuggle up to Putin say about the self-avowed pussy-grabber?

August 14, 2018 • by Steven Botticelli

The descriptions of Donald Trump’s press conference in Helsinki with Vladimir Putin made it perfectly clear. A New York Times editorial referred to “Trump’s subservience to the Russian strongman” and his “globally televised submissiveness.” John McCain said Trump had “abased himself abjectly before a tyrant.” This, from Trump the authoritarian, the blusterer, the pussy-grabber, ...

Queer Donald Trump and the Paradoxes of Power

Blue Monday

The Whole World Is Watching?

Thoughts on police violence in the streets of Bucharest and the streets of Portland, Charlottesville, Ferguson, and Chicago 1968

August 13, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

“I merely took the energy it takes to pout, and I wrote some blues.” -Duke Ellington This past Friday night, August 10, a major demonstration was held at Piata Victorei in downtown Bucharest to protest the widespread corruption of the SPD government, led by Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă, and by the ...

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Feminists Say

Gagging on rape

August 13, 2018 • by Vanessa Place and Cassandra Seltman

Last year the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality published a panel called "The ontology of the rape joke," organized around a performance by Vanessa Place of her piece, "Rape joke." The panel included responses from Jamieson Webster, Jeff Dolven, Gayle Salamon, Kyoo Lee, Katie Gentile, and Virginia Goldner, and ended with ...

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Thoughts on Violence in the Streets of Bucharest and on the Civic Defense of Romanian Democracy

August 12, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

This past Friday night, August 10, a major demonstration was held at Piata Victorei in downtown Bucharest to protest the widespread corruption of the SPD government, led by Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă, and by the party’s leader and power-behind-the-throne, Liviu Dragnea, himself convicted of corruption charges and separately for 2012 ...

Thoughts on Violence in the Streets of Bucharest and on the Civic Defense of Romanian Democracy

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Own This!

A portfolio of platform cooperativism, in progress

August 12, 2018 • by Trebor Scholz

“We are own bosses. The platform co-op model can help us to grow professionally and as people.” - Up&Go Member-Owner The Economy is Not Working for Most People Platform capitalism, the economic system currently dominating the Internet, is not working for most people. Despite its initial promise as a new commons, the Internet ...

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The Catholic ’68

Love and Protest

August 11, 2018 • by Adrienne Harris

“1968 youth need 1968 priests”, read one of the banners outside Westminster Cathedral, carried by marchers from a south London parish as part of a coordinated series of ‘pray-ins’ and protest meetings at cathedrals across the country. Progressive Catholic activism in the summer of 1968 took a variety of forms, ...

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Answering the Question: What is Socialism?

Gray reflections on a surprising turn in U.S. political culture.

August 10, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Last year, I quite critically raised the question: What Do You Mean When You Use the Term Neo Liberalism? I was, and still am, concerned that the term too often explains too much with too little, and enervates progressive politics. I worry that all the problems of our times are too quickly ...