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We Must Concede That By Tolerating Shooting Massacres, We Are Choosing Not to Be Free

Democracy is the path toward greater freedom for all

March 25, 2021 • by John Stoehr

_____ The Republicans in the US Congress insist the right to bear arms is a constitutional Second Amendment issue. The Democrats say gun control is a common sense safety issue. The press corps, which prefers binaries as a matter of professional convenience, frames the question as, well, a question, as a tension between the right to bear arms ...

We Must Concede That By Tolerating Shooting Massacres, We Are Choosing Not to Be Free

Politics

Ukraine Has An Anti-Semitism Problem

While America struggles against ultra-right nationalism, one of our allies is embracing it

March 25, 2021 • by Neil Karpenko

_____ In 2020, Americans stood up against Trumpism, white supremacism, and chauvinism. By electing Joe Biden to become President, Americans showed to the whole world that they would not allow neo-fascists to rule their country. Unfortunately, there are still countries where ultra-right tendencies dominate politics and social life – and one of ...

Columnists

Our Nation Is a Shooting Gallery

But anyone who pretends there’s nothing we can do is lying

March 25, 2021 • by Claire Potter

_____ Yesterday I began to see the tweets, again: people who had left their houses that day to do something unremarkable were dying. Friends at the University of Colorado-Boulder expressed fear, horror, and confusion as another mass shooting unfolded at a supermarket near their campus. Later, I learned that ten people, ...

Democracy

As Biden Reverses GOP Policies, SCOTUS May Stand In the Way

An all-out legal attack by Republican attorneys general will be warmly welcomed by Trump appointees

March 25, 2021 • by Heather Cox Richardson

_____ As the Biden administration sets out to restore a government that can regulate business to level the playing field in the United States between workers and employers, address inequality, and combat climate change, Republicans are turning to the courts to stop him. Republican attorneys general have already launched a number of lawsuits ...

As Biden Reverses GOP Policies, SCOTUS May Stand In the Way

Indigenous Peoples

Deb Haaland Brings Experience and History to Biden’s Cabinet

Opportunities for justice abound as she takes the helm at a branch of government that has historically mishandled and cheated indigenous people

March 24, 2021 • by Michael Leroy Oberg and Joel Helfrich

_____ In 1968 the National Indian Youth Council served as one of the organizers of the Native American contingent for the Poor People’s Campaign. This multi-racial coalition marched on Washington and, in a document penned by the “Committee of 100,” presented its list of demands. With regard to Indigenous Peoples in the ...

Deb Haaland Brings Experience and History to Biden’s Cabinet

Democracy

Can The Republican Party Successfully Orbanify the U.S.?

Some comparative reflections on the exceptional vulnerability of American democracy

March 23, 2021 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

This past year the U.S. experienced a transfer of presidential power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. It was not a peaceful transfer of power. On January 6, a large and angry mob descended on the U.S. Capitol to “Stop the Steal” by obstructing the constitutionally mandated certification by Congress of the ...

Past Present

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Controversies

Past Present Podcast, Episode 272

March 23, 2021 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: Amid charges that he covered up Covid-related deaths among nursing home residents and sexually harassed multiple women, New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo is being asked to resign. Natalia referred to Rebecca Traister’s article at The Cut and Zephyr Teachout’s essay ...

Politics

How Donald Trump Facilitated the Current Racist Attacks on Asian Americans

The long history of America’s hostility toward immigrants from China, Japan, and Korea

March 18, 2021 • by Nadia Y. Kim

_____ EDITORS NOTE: Last summer, in the midst of the Black Lives Matter uprisings around the country, Public Seminar published a prescient piece by Nadia Kim, a professor of sociology and the author of several books, including Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to LA, and Refusing Death: Immigrant Women ...

How Donald Trump Facilitated the Current Racist Attacks on Asian Americans

Politics

Andrew Cuomo’s Female Enablers

Powerful men have recruited successful women to shield and defend them for decades – but other feminists are seeing the bigger picture

March 18, 2021 • by Claire Potter

_____ The scandals in the New York governor’s office have exploded. One sexual harassment allegation has become multiple allegations. The cover-up of nursing home deaths from Covid-19 is now prompting a broader inquiry into Andrew Cuomo’s handling of the pandemic. And all of these allegations have ripped back the curtain on ...

Democracy

America’s Political Parties

The order shattering and the order affirming

March 17, 2021 • by Thomas Cobb

The oppositional leadership styles of Trump and Biden have proved the timelessness of the political scientist Stephen Skowronek’s position, outlined in the second chapter of his 1993 masterwork The Politics Presidents Make, that the American presidency displays competing instincts. Skowronek posited that the presidency contained the potential for “order shattering,” ...

Politics

The Department of the Interior’s New Face

Deb Haaland represents a reckoning with the fossil fuel industry–and our history of mistreating indigenous people

March 17, 2021 • by Heather Cox Richardson

_____ This week, the Senate confirmed the appointment of Representative Deb Haaland (D-NM) as Secretary of the Interior Department. An impressive woman in her own right, Haaland embodies the determination of the new administration to use the government for the good of all Americans, rather than for special interests. This makes ...

The Department of the Interior’s New Face

Economy

Can Cooperatives Build Worker Power?

Give platform co-ops a seat at the policy table

March 11, 2021 • by Trebor Scholz, Doug O'Brien and Jason Spicer

If the American movement supporting Democratic Socialism gets traction, centrist Democrats are likely to push for cooperatives as a way to temper the severity of American capitalism. To that end, efforts like The Clean Slate for Worker Power project would do well to consider the potential of platform cooperatives ...

Politics

We Must Concede That By Tolerating Shooting Massacres, We Are Choosing Not to Be Free

Democracy is the path toward greater freedom for all

Ukraine Has An Anti-Semitism Problem

While America struggles against ultra-right nationalism, one of our allies is embracing it

Our Nation Is a Shooting Gallery

But anyone who pretends there’s nothing we can do is lying

As Biden Reverses GOP Policies, SCOTUS May Stand In the Way

An all-out legal attack by Republican attorneys general will be warmly welcomed by Trump appointees

Deb Haaland Brings Experience and History to Biden’s Cabinet

Opportunities for justice abound as she takes the helm at a branch of government that has historically mishandled and cheated indigenous people

Can The Republican Party Successfully Orbanify the U.S.?

Some comparative reflections on the exceptional vulnerability of American democracy

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Controversies

Past Present Podcast, Episode 272

How Donald Trump Facilitated the Current Racist Attacks on Asian Americans

The long history of America’s hostility toward immigrants from China, Japan, and Korea

Andrew Cuomo’s Female Enablers

Powerful men have recruited successful women to shield and defend them for decades – but other feminists are seeing the bigger picture

America’s Political Parties

The order shattering and the order affirming

The Department of the Interior’s New Face

Deb Haaland represents a reckoning with the fossil fuel industry–and our history of mistreating indigenous people

Can Cooperatives Build Worker Power?

Give platform co-ops a seat at the policy table

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