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Building Health Homes for Kids

New York’s Reforms for Children on Medicaid Finally Take Shape

June 30, 2018 • by Abigail Kramer

New York has begun its ambitious project to re-engineer health care for low-income children. In a new report, Building Health Homes for Kids: New York’s Reforms for Children on Medicaid Finally Take Shape, the Center for New York City Affairs looks at the opportunities and challenges presented by the State’s first major ...

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American Behavioral Fascism, Anti-fascism and Democracy

Dark Thoughts from Paris on a Hot and Sunny Friday

June 29, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

I’m in Paris today visiting my daughter and her family for a week, and then bringing my bi-lingual grandson, who has dual citizenship, back to New York for the summer. Since he was born over eight years ago, the family has been anticipating doing this. It’s a wonderful time for ...

American Behavioral Fascism, Anti-fascism and Democracy

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Why the U.S. Should Ratify the Convention on Children’s Rights

The Trump administration’s policy on immigrant families makes it clear that the U.S. needs a child rights treaty now more than ever

June 29, 2018 • by Yvonne M. Vissing

The Trump administration’s forced separation of migrant children from their parents as a way to coerce Congress to agree with its proposed immigration policies is problematic on numerous fronts. Not only is it immoral but it is also damaging for the children involved, resulting in harms that range from toxic stress and abuse, to human rights violations. It has been ...

Why the U.S. Should Ratify the Convention on Children’s Rights

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Irony and Historical Detachment

Analysis/discussion of pastiche in social media

June 29, 2018 • by Lindsay Parkhowell

This second interpretation is what I want to focus on. I want to show that instead of being a form of humor the graffiti in this image is representative of a strain of urbane, ironic detachment that has become pervasive in Anglophone cultures over the past decades. I want to ...

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How To Do Things Without Words

Silence as the power of accountability

June 28, 2018 • by Jeremy Bendik-Keymer

A jarring phenomenon of the Trump presidency is that words are cheaper than they’ve ever been in my half-century-long life. Yet behind this cheapness, silences appear, difficult and important to feel. There is the silence of an estimated 4,645 deaths in Puerto Rico as a result of Hurricane Maria. There’s the ...

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How You Can Help Immigrant Children Separated From Their Families

We need to take action against the U.S. government’s ‘Zero Tolerance’ Policy

June 28, 2018 • by Melanie Hart and Maya Wiley

We stand in support of a humane and equitable immigration path, policy, and process for all people. The federal government’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy promises to prosecute all persons who illegally cross the border, which includes individuals who seek asylum. Under the zero tolerance policy, thousands of children were forcibly ...

How You Can Help Immigrant Children Separated From Their Families

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“No Gods, No Masters”

Antisemitic tropes and utopian ideals in imagining and resisting capitalism

June 28, 2018 • by Judith Suissa

This piece was prepared for a short talk as part of “Navigating finance and the imagination: A collaborative theoretical walking tour ”, an event organized by Max Haiven and Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, that took place in London in April 2018. Participants in this interdisciplinary event drew on Cornelius Castoriadis’ work to explore ...

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Remembering a Campus Free Speech Fight

In the 1990s, the culture wars did not always drive us apart: sometimes we learned to respect each other more

June 27, 2018 • by Claire Potter and Zachary Schonfeld

On June 10, 2018, Doug Bennet, a historian, political aide, assistant secretary in the State Department, former president of National Public Radio and—most importantly to me—president of Wesleyan University, died at the age of 79. It's rare that you see someone bring such a rich background to the executive office ...

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Unsportsmanlike Conduct

Donald Trump and the politics of football

June 27, 2018 • by Jesse Berrett

Last fall, Donald Trump called protesting NFL players “sons of bitches” and demanded that they be kicked off the field and fired “right now.” Weeks ago, he disinvited the Super-Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles from the customary visit to the White House because “they disagree with our president” about proper observance of the national ...

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The 1970s Gay Sex Scandal That Enthralled Britons Is Back

What the Thorpe affair reveals about the history of elite men seeking sex and relationships with other men

June 26, 2018 • by Emily Rutherford

When British Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was acquitted of conspiracy to murder on June 22, 1979, the press had a field day. Thorpe allegedly paid to have his lover of fifteen years -- the horse groom and sometime model Norman Scott -- assassinated. The outing of a popular, charismatic ...

The 1970s Gay Sex Scandal That Enthralled Britons Is Back

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Anthony Bourdain, Family Values, and Ageism

Past Present Episode 136

June 26, 2018 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this week's episode, Neil, Niki, and Natalia debate the legacy of Anthony Bourdain, the end of “family values” conservatism, and ageism as a form of discrimination. Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: The late Anthony Bourdain helped define the now familiar figure of the “celebrity chef.” ...

Anthony Bourdain, Family Values, and Ageism

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On Relational Psychoanalysis

An Interview with Emmanuel Ghent

June 26, 2018 • by Lewis Aron

We dedicate this interview to the late Jeremy Safran, a distinguished professor in the New School of Social Research's Psychology Department and a senior editor of Public Seminar, in the week of his memorial service to honor his legacy. Emmanuel Ghent was one of the founders of relational psychoanalysis, and his ideas ...