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Education

What You Learn When You Talk to Conservative Students

College professors and college administrations have to do better–we are losing these kids to extremism

February 3, 2021 • by Claire Potter

"We have a tough job in the next four years as we try to rebuild a more inclusive and truly democratic national conversation." - Claire Potter...

What You Learn When You Talk to Conservative Students

Democracy

Confronting the World Wide Threat of Right Wing Authoritarianism

If we don’t hang together, we will surely hang separately

February 3, 2021 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

Our effort to create and nourish a “world-wide committee of democratic correspondence” began long before the coronavirus laid waste to our world. And as a world-wide network, our efforts have always involved a strong online component. For the web affords our far-flung group many opportunities for the sharing of ideas ...

Confronting the World Wide Threat of Right Wing Authoritarianism

Politics

Break Up the Tech Monopoly

No corporation should be so big or systemically important that it can credibly threaten to cut an entire nation off from the news

February 3, 2021 • by Pat Garofalo

Australian leaders want Google to pay news outlets for articles the tech giant serves up to users. In response, Google threatened to pull its search engine from the entire country. Not just news, but democracy is at stake. Google’s threat sounds absurd. But it actually happened. And Google wasn’t alone: Facebook also ...

Past Present

Larry King

Past Present Podcast, Episode 265

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

Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: TV and radio legend, Larry King, died last week at the age of 87. We discussed some of the retrospective pieces King’s sixty-year career produced, like this 2010 feature in the New York Times, and this 1988 article in the ...

Politics

Patriotism’s Dilemma

Lessons from The Godfather

February 1, 2021 • by Steven B. Smith

The idea of patriotism – love of country – is an ancient one. It goes back to the Greek word patris (place of one’s ancestors) and the Latin patria (fatherland). Like every form of love, patriotism is partly determined by the object of its affection. Is love of country unconditional – ...

Politics

Biden’s Made-for-TV Inauguration

The spectacle of unity required a camera angle that made the razor wire and the thousands of heavily-armed National Guard members invisible

January 28, 2021 • by Stephanie Engel

Ultimately, though, what troubled me most profoundly was what we didn’t see. ...

Democracy

Welcome to the Biden Administration

In a week of hectic activity, the new president re-introduces Americans to the idea of government

January 28, 2021 • by Heather Cox Richardson

We are now a week into the Biden administration, and President Joe Biden has set some clear and surprisingly dominant markers. Biden has kept firmly to his constitutional responsibilities in what appears to be an attempt to remind Americans of the official roles of different branches of government in our democracy. ...

Activism

Georgia On My Mind

The Democratic Party in Georgia has come a long way since the 1965 Voting Rights Act

January 28, 2021 • by Jo Freeman

“The concept of political equality...can mean only one thing—one person, one vote." ...

Politics

Time for Liberals to Trust Chuck Schumer

The doubters are loud, but they may soon be quieted

January 27, 2021 • by John Stoehr

Some liberals said after the 2016 election that Nancy Pelosi was the worst person to lead the resistance to Donald Trump’s authoritarian reign. Turns out, they were wrong. Pelosi was exactly the leader America needed. She handed his ass to him every time they negotiated. She led two historic impeachments against ...

Time for Liberals to Trust Chuck Schumer

Activism

What Conventional Histories of New York’s Struggles in the 1970s Leave Out

Remembering the heroic activism of the Bronx’s Evelina López Antonetty

January 27, 2021 • by Linus Glenhaber

The destructive decisions New York made up to that point had caused the Bronx literally to burn. ...

What Conventional Histories of New York’s Struggles in the 1970s Leave Out

Europe & Central Asia

American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination

Collective memories of emancipation through cultural production

January 27, 2021 • by Amanda Brickell Bellows

————— Amanda Bellows is a Lecturer in the Department of Historical Studies at The New School’s Eugene Lang College where she teaches nineteenth century U.S. History. Her new publication, American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination was published by the University of North Carolina Press, June 2020. This book is ...

American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination

Politics

Is Joe Biden a Socialist?

No, but conservatives forget that some “socialist” programs have worked pretty well

January 27, 2021 • by Colleen Doody

The Chicago Daily Tribune urged Republicans to vote against a Democratic presidential candidate in order to end “costly experiments in state socialism.” Democrats, the writer wailed, sought to “clothe the federal government with paramount power over every kind of enterprise.” A Republican slur against the $1.9 trillion economic rescue package that President-Elect ...