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Democracy

The Chauvin Verdict and Common Sense

Further reflections on democracy and social justice

April 29, 2021 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

I am relieved by the verdict and, of course, I’m not alone. We knew that Chauvin was guilty as sin: the racist, apparently remorseless, cold blooded killer of George Floyd. It was clear as day, common sense. But common sense has failed us when it comes to American policing and ...

Politics

Are Liberals Hurting Children?

No–but distracting voters is an old conservative strategy and the conspiracy theories are getting weirder

April 29, 2021 • by Claire Potter

_____ This week, a story has come out of Florida that would be shocking, except, of course, that the event in question happened in Florida. First reported by Patricia Mazzei at the New York Times, and then by a team at the Miami Herald, it illuminated the conspiracy theory that the Covid-19 vaccination, vital to school ...

Columnists

We Still Need to Understand the Insurrection

As disinformation continues to disrupt political life, a Congressional commission could reveal and disable the perpetrators

April 29, 2021 • by Heather Cox Richardson

_____ More than 140 military leaders, former national security officials, and elected officials from both parties have asked Congress to establish a commission to investigate what led to the January 6 insurrection, when rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol. The commission would also study how to prevent a similar coup attempt in ...

We Still Need to Understand the Insurrection

Politics

Plugged and Abandoned Wells? Not A Problem-It’s the Orphans that the Federal Government Should Worry About

What the Biden administration needs to know about “orphaned wells” before taking the American Jobs Plan to the House floor

April 29, 2021 • by Joseph Castillo

_____ On March 31, 2021, the Biden Administration released “The American Jobs Plan.” It’s an infrastructure proposal aimed at rebuilding the American economy, putting Americans back to work, while simultaneously addressing important environmental issues. One key problem the plan highlights, and that Biden discussed on the campaign trail, is the large ...

Plugged and Abandoned Wells? Not A Problem-It’s the Orphans that the Federal Government Should Worry About

Politics

How Does the United States Make Religious Peace in Afghanistan?

Europeans learned to manage their religious differences, but it required political action

April 28, 2021 • by Wayne Te Brake

_____ Nearly twenty years ago, on October 7, 2001, the United States, supported by a broad international coalition, started what the Bush administration called a War on Terrorism. It began with an aerial attack on Afghanistan, whose radical Islamist Taliban government had harbored those responsible for the devastating 9/11 attacks. Two ...

How Does the United States Make Religious Peace in Afghanistan?

Activism

Teaching Through the Pandemic

In a course about memorializing HIV-AIDS, students learned about community by making one

April 21, 2021 • by Dan Royles

_____ Everyone involved in education has found the past year to be a special challenge for teaching, learning, and simply making it from one day to another. But how do you teach students about a pandemic during a pandemic? In December 2020, queer historian Dan Royles interviewed Theodore (Ted) Kerr and his ...

Democracy

Gun Violence Is as American as Apple Pie

But gun ownership only became popular after World War II, when conservatives united to prevent desegregation

April 21, 2021 • by Heather Cox Richardson

_____ America today is caught in a plague of gun violence. It wasn’t always this way. Americans used to own guns without engaging in daily massacres. Indeed, it always jumps out at me that the infamous St. Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1929, when members of one Chicago gang set up and killed ...

Gun Violence Is as American as Apple Pie

Politics

Congress’s Incentive Cease-Fire

How a COVID relief bill could temporarily slow the tax break race to the bottom

April 21, 2021 • by Pat Garofalo

_____ Though corporate tax giveaway problems often arise at the state and local level, federal lawmakers could technically implement a fix for the whole nation. For decades, in fact, a few policymakers have pushed for Congress to use its power to regulate interstate commerce to end the race to the bottom ...

Capitalism

Up To Heaven and Down to Hell

Fracking, freedom, and community in an American town

April 20, 2021 • by Colin Jerolmack

_____ The following excerpt is from Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town by Colin Jerolmack and was reprinted with permission of Princeton University Press. From page 229, Fig. 10.3b. Fracking in the Tiadaghton State Forest. Photograph ...

Capitalism

Data Cooperatives for Pandemic Times

To avoid ‘co-op whitewashing,’ experiments with data co-ops should be co-developed with communities connected to the long history and analysis of the various forms of cooperatives.

April 19, 2021 • by Trebor Scholz and Igor Calzada

To avoid 'co-op whitewashing,' data cooperatives must be shaped by those who need them most, rooted in cooperative principles and localized data....

Activism

The True Story of Two Guatemalan Asylum Seekers at Our Border

A saga of dispossession, past and present

April 15, 2021 • by Mónica Salmón Gómez

_____I met Francisco Chávez and Gaspar Cobo through a colleague and advocate for migrants’ and refugees’ human rights who works in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. The two of them had fled Guatemala in June 2019. Travelling with a larger group of Central Americans going north, it took them twenty days to ...

The True Story of Two Guatemalan Asylum Seekers at Our Border

Politics

Joe Biden Embraces Liberalism

But is he returning to a New Deal vision? Comparisons to Harry Truman may be more apt

April 15, 2021 • by Heather Cox Richardson

_____ Yesterday, the Biden administration issued a proclamation on Black Maternal Health Week. It noted that African American mothers die from pregnancy-related complications at two to three times the rates of white, Hispanic, Asian American, and Pacific Islander women, no matter what their income or education levels. President Joe Biden and ...

Politics

Are Liberals Hurting Children?

No–but distracting voters is an old conservative strategy and the conspiracy theories are getting weirder

We Still Need to Understand the Insurrection

As disinformation continues to disrupt political life, a Congressional commission could reveal and disable the perpetrators

Plugged and Abandoned Wells? Not A Problem-It’s the Orphans that the Federal Government Should Worry About

What the Biden administration needs to know about “orphaned wells” before taking the American Jobs Plan to the House floor

How Does the United States Make Religious Peace in Afghanistan?

Europeans learned to manage their religious differences, but it required political action

Teaching Through the Pandemic

In a course about memorializing HIV-AIDS, students learned about community by making one

Gun Violence Is as American as Apple Pie

But gun ownership only became popular after World War II, when conservatives united to prevent desegregation

Congress’s Incentive Cease-Fire

How a COVID relief bill could temporarily slow the tax break race to the bottom

Up To Heaven and Down to Hell

Fracking, freedom, and community in an American town

Data Cooperatives for Pandemic Times

To avoid ‘co-op whitewashing,’ experiments with data co-ops should be co-developed with communities connected to the long history and analysis of the various forms of cooperatives.

The True Story of Two Guatemalan Asylum Seekers at Our Border

A saga of dispossession, past and present

Joe Biden Embraces Liberalism

But is he returning to a New Deal vision? Comparisons to Harry Truman may be more apt

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