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Democracy

Democracy and Social Justice

On the significance of C.T. Vivian and Adam Michnik

March 11, 2021 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

The New York Times, April 26, 1984: “A Polish Nobel laureate in exile stood in a church on lower Fifth Avenue yesterday and read an open letter of moral outrage from a jailed dissident in Poland to his jailer. The letter, as another speaker put it, fell like ''a tornado'' on the ...

Democracy

The United States Is Picking Up Where The Great Society Left Off

The conventional wisdom that endured for decades is making way for something new

March 11, 2021 • by John Stoehr

_____ You might be tired of me talking about the American Rescue Act, which passed the House of Representatives on March 10 and is headed to the President’s desk. But while the rest of the country is talking about Joe Biden’s dog, and while the press corps is asking about the ...

The United States Is Picking Up Where The Great Society Left Off

Politics

Why “Naming and Shaming” Is a Tactic That Often Backfires In International Relations

Understanding a deeply paradoxical political process

March 11, 2021 • by Rochelle Terman

_____ In recent decades, scholars and activists have argued that international condemnation can improve human rights conditions around the world. “Naming and shaming” is now a preferred tactic of global human rights advocates. When a government violates the rights of its citizens, the international community can respond by exerting moral pressure ...

Why “Naming and Shaming” Is a Tactic That Often Backfires In International Relations

Politics

The Neoracists

A new religion is preached across America: It’s nonsense posing as wisdom

March 11, 2021 • by John McWhorter

_____ One can divide antiracism into three waves. First Wave Antiracism battled slavery and segregation. Second Wave Antiracism, in the 1970s and 1980s, battled racist attitudes and taught America that being racist was a flaw. Third Wave Antiracism, becoming mainstream in the 2010s, teaches that racism is baked into the structure ...

The Left

A Genealogy of White Privilege

An essay on the politics of confession & guilt

March 11, 2021 • by James Miller

_____ How much shame and guilt should a movement for social justice try deliberately to cultivate? In recent years, this question, superficially abstract, has again become personal for me, both in my ongoing involvement in political protest movements, and my job as a teacher, working at an institution devoted to promoting equity, ...

Politics

A Better Way to Do Corporate Giveaways

How legislation would put a stop to the most senseless of senseless state competitions

March 8, 2021 • by Pat Garofalo

_____ The debate around corporate tax breaks usually centers on a specific giveaway. Should Virginia have given hundreds of millions of dollars to Amazon for its so-called HQ2? Does Netflix really need $24 million, plus an undisclosed amount of property tax reductions, from New Mexico? But playing whack-a-mole and attempting to ...

Politics

Our Janus-Faced Political Culture

As the Biden administration moves into the future, conservatives are stuck in the past

March 4, 2021 • by Heather Cox Richardson

_____ We’re in this weird eddy where Republicans are trying to cling to past politics to gain advantage and the Biden administration is trying to move forward into the future. On top of this struggle are stories about how the previous administration pushed the boundaries of our laws or, worse, broke ...

Democracy

Guo Wengui

Trump and the war on truth

March 4, 2021 • by Teng Biao

1. On the morning of December 1, 2020, I was at home teaching an online class for Hunter College students. The subject was how the Chinese government extended its suppression of freedom abroad. Suddenly, outside on the sidewalk in front of my house, a dozen or so masked people appeared, each ...

Politics

Conservative Democrats Play Legislative Ball While Republicans Deliberately Fumble It

This is how the democratic process works

March 4, 2021 • by John Stoehr

_____ On Saturday, the US House of Representatives passed a Covid relief package totaling almost $2 trillion. The US Senate is taking up the bill this week. The upper chamber will probably send it to the president as-is, mostly, but for a major exception. It’s unlikely to contain provisions for raising the federal ...

Conservative Democrats Play Legislative Ball While Republicans Deliberately Fumble It

Activism

Betty Friedan’s Radical Century

Because of this organizer, you can’t understand the twentieth century without talking about feminism

March 4, 2021 • by Peter Dreier

"A century after her birth, Betty Friedan’s radical ideas are common sense, and that’s a victory not just for feminists, but for everyone."...

Media

Ronald Reagan’s Worst Decision Created Rush Limbaugh

When the Fairness Doctrine was demolished in the name of free speech, a new conservative media rose up from the ashes

March 3, 2021 • by Robert Slayton

_____ When Rush Limbaugh died of lung cancer on February 17, 2021, all I could think of was Ronald Reagan’s worst decision. There are many contenders for that crown: his neglect as the AIDS crisis became an epidemic has to be a top pick. But another must go to his deregulation of ...

Ronald Reagan’s Worst Decision Created Rush Limbaugh

Past Present

Minimum Wage and the Fight for $15

Past Present Podcast, Episode 269

March 2, 2021 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: House Democrats have proposed a federally guaranteed fifteen-dollar an hour minimum wage as part of their coronavirus relief bill. Niki drew on this New York Times piece about the effective minimum wage, and Neil referenced this New Yorker article about ...

Politics

The United States Is Picking Up Where The Great Society Left Off

The conventional wisdom that endured for decades is making way for something new

Why “Naming and Shaming” Is a Tactic That Often Backfires In International Relations

Understanding a deeply paradoxical political process

The Neoracists

A new religion is preached across America: It’s nonsense posing as wisdom

A Better Way to Do Corporate Giveaways

How legislation would put a stop to the most senseless of senseless state competitions

Our Janus-Faced Political Culture

As the Biden administration moves into the future, conservatives are stuck in the past

Guo Wengui

Trump and the war on truth

Conservative Democrats Play Legislative Ball While Republicans Deliberately Fumble It

This is how the democratic process works

Betty Friedan’s Radical Century

Because of this organizer, you can’t understand the twentieth century without talking about feminism

Ronald Reagan’s Worst Decision Created Rush Limbaugh

When the Fairness Doctrine was demolished in the name of free speech, a new conservative media rose up from the ashes

Minimum Wage and the Fight for $15

Past Present Podcast, Episode 269

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