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Democracy

Turkey’s Final Exam on Freedom

Boğaziçi University fights the authoritarian regime

January 12, 2022 • by Berna Turam

In September 2010, several years before serving as the prime minister of Turkey (2014–16), Ahmet Davutoğlu visited Boston. At that time, he was Turkey’s minister of foreign affairs and a member of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, or AKP). Upon his arrival, he invited a small ...

Corporations

Let the People Decide What Counts as Public Goods

Why government spending should be defined by our democratic process, not by market forces

January 7, 2022 • by Donald Cohen and Allen Mikaelian

Public health is a public good, but the Trump administration handed it over to corporations. Shocking as this was, the Trump administration’s stance was simply an extension of what it had been doing since it came into office, and what politicians of all stripes have been doing for some fifty ...

Let the People Decide What Counts as Public Goods

North America

Everything Associated with January 6 Is a Performance

Televised government hearings are political theater: make Americans watch by assembling a star-studded cast

January 6, 2022 • by Peter Nohrnberg

January 6 was broadcast on live TV, bringing the performativity of Trump partisans to many Americans who had never experienced their theatrical quality. The costumes, the flags, the signage, and the face-paint compelled and stunned many viewers....

Everything Associated with January 6 Is a Performance

Prisons and Police

When Children Commit Atrocities

Crimes that tear at our hearts are also opportunities to forgive

January 5, 2022 • by Harold Pollack

A member of my own family was beaten to death by a high school student. That boy is now a man. He walks the streets today. I believe justice has been served....

Politics

We have now entered the “Hunger Games”-era of American history. Does Joe Manchin care?

Monique Judge: “This is some weird power play.”

December 21, 2021 • by John Stoehr

Monique Judge and John Stoehr discuss Joe Manchin and the fate of the Build Back Better bill....

We have now entered the “Hunger Games”-era of American history. Does Joe Manchin care?

Politics

Bass Pro Blocked from Reeling in More Power

Merger between Sportsman’s and Great Outdoors Group hits FTC snag

December 10, 2021 • by Pat Garofalo

On December 2, 2021, there was some under-the-radar good news for local communities and consumers: The Great Outdoors Group and Sportsman’s Warehouse called off a proposed merger, after scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general in several states, including Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Alaska, Colorado, Iowa, and California. Great Outdoors Group ...

Bass Pro Blocked from Reeling in More Power

Democracy

The Blob and the Mob: On Grand Strategy and Social Change

In an excerpt from Rethinking American Grand Strategy, Beverly Gage examines how statecraft and social movements intersect

December 8, 2021 • by Beverly Gage

Means and Ends As other essays in this collection demonstrate, the idea of “grand strategy” emerged out of the world of military affairs. Under the famous rubric identified by British historian B. H. Liddell Hart, “strategy” was what generals did, while “grand strategy” fell to politicians and statesmen, charged not only with winning ...

The Blob and the Mob: On Grand Strategy and Social Change

Democracy

Navigating the World of Grand Strategy with Christopher McKnight Nichols and Andrew Preston

The two historians talk to Public Seminar about Rethinking American Grand Strategy

December 8, 2021 • by Gregory Coleman, Christopher McKnight Nichols and Andrew Preston

Award-winning historians Christopher McKnight Nichols and Andrew Preston spoke (virtually) with Public Seminar editorial intern Gregory Coleman to discuss their new book Rethinking American Grand Strategy (Oxford University Press, 2021). Edited by Nichols and Preston with fellow historian Elizabeth Borgwardt, the collection of curated essays discusses what American grand strategy ...

Navigating the World of Grand Strategy with Christopher McKnight Nichols and Andrew Preston

Politics

What Use Is Fact-Checking Against Fact-Free Politics?

The rise of false histories by real politicians

December 7, 2021 • by Edin Hajdarpasic

In early November, a report to the United Nations written by Christian Schmidt, the high representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, was leaked to the press. In it, Schmidt warned that the country was in danger of falling apart, with a “very real” prospect for a renewed civil war waged by ...

What Use Is Fact-Checking Against Fact-Free Politics?

Activism

Photo Essay: Abortion Protests at the Supreme Court

Pro-choicers were out-numbered, out-signed, and out-shouted by pro-lifers

December 6, 2021 • by Jo Freeman

Several thousand people rallied in front of the Supreme Court on the morning of December 1. Inside, the Court heard oral argument in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a Mississippi case which would limit all abortions to no later than 15 weeks. Long before oral arguments started, the pro-lifers ...

Photo Essay: Abortion Protests at the Supreme Court

Politics

Could We Learn to Live Somewhere Between “Never Again” and “Thoughts and Prayers?”

The culture war over guns must end for school shootings to end

December 3, 2021 • by Claire Potter

You know the United States is edging back to a post-Covid normal when a distraught kid takes his father’s 9 mm Sig Sauer, purchased on Black Friday, to his Michigan high school and opens fire. It is the most recent of 53 school shootings this year that have killed 17 people and wounded ...

Could We Learn to Live Somewhere Between “Never Again” and “Thoughts and Prayers?”

Politics

How to Save Local Retail

Or how to start, anyway

November 29, 2021 • by Pat Garofalo

With the holiday shopping season upon us, it seems like a good time to consider local retail. Small retailers are struggling: They’ve been punished by the pandemic, of course, but the root of the problem goes back much further to the active disinterest by the powers that be in doing anything ...