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The Uses and Limits of Anti-Neoliberalism

February 7, 2017 • by Laura Nelson

There is a generalizing story circulating about the 2016 presidential election that is, I think, a clear example of how trust and suspicion not only can but must coexist whenever we reflect on events: call it “the anti-neoliberalism narrative.” The story goes like this: the establishments of both the Republican ...

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Regarding the “Institution-building, Governance and Compliance in Brazil: Politics, Policy and Business” Event

An Open Letter from members of the New School Community

February 6, 2017 • by Joana Avritzer, Mayra Cotta, Douglas de Toledo Piza, Victoria Echeverria De Carvalho, Flávia Leite, Tiago Lima, Luiza Nassif Pires, Tomás Pimenta, Marianna Poyares and Jussara Raxlen

The event remarkably embodies a one-sided set of views that is unrepresentative of and insensitive to the complexity of recent Brazilian politics. By presenting the Operação Lava Jato (Car Wash Operation) as paradigmatic of “institutional-building, governance and compliance” in Brazil the event implicitly embraces a narrative that contributed to the ...

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A Short Memory

The Women’s March in Hartford

February 6, 2017 • by Anne Balay

I went up with my daughter and a few of her friends; we found easy parking, and walked over to the State Capitol Building. It's a classic dome building, and we met on the stairs, with statues of Puritan New England staring censoriously down on us. There was lots of ...

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The City Busy Fighting Hate

Atlanta Protests Trump

February 6, 2017 • by Robin Morris

I’ll clear my calendar. Ignoring the stack of grading undone and the manuscript untouched, here are the good parts. I’ve realized justice ain’t nothing but a family thing. My sister and I drove to D.C. together. She’s a Spanish professor and I’m a History professor. We had twelve hours to dissect ...

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No to Hate!

Rallying Against Global Trumpism in Berlin, Germany

February 6, 2017 • by Sabine Hark

On January 20, 2017, a practicing representative of rape culture took his place in the White House. With him came racism and sexism; came hatred for women*, lesbians and gays, trans*, inter*, and queers; came marginalization and debasement, insult and contempt. This can revive the age of men who beat and ...

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Turkey’s State of Emergency

An Open Letter

February 4, 2017 • by Zeynep Gambetti

We are going through very, very hard times all over the world. The rate of catastrophe is perhaps higher in Turkey, due to the State of Emergency that accelerates the already present state of exception. This past year in Turkey, it dawned on me that I was witnessing what Hannah ...

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A Citizen’s Appeal to Barack Obama

Defending our democracy from authoritarianism

February 2, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

This can't wait. Every day brings us one day closer to authoritarianism, to war, to disaster. Unless you have closed your eyes and ears, you can see and hear this. You know this. What canon of "civility" and "respect for the constitutional transfer of authority" can require you now, as a ...

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If They Take You in the Morning, They Will be Coming for us That Night

Protesting Trump’s Executive Order

February 1, 2017 • by Josh Guild

If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own -- which it is -- and render impassable with our bodies the corridor to the gas chamber. For, if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night. I have ...

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Say It Loud:

Iowa Rallies for Refugees

February 1, 2017 • by Lauren Louise Anderson

Then a car drove past and something shot out of the window: my artist mind took a snapshot. After I went home I felt the need to turn the snapshot into a drawing. Part of the words from the car are obscured because I felt more than heard the first ...

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Love, Solidarity & the #MuslimBan

In Providence, Rhode Island

January 30, 2017 • by Michael D. Kennedy

Some 2,000 people from Providence, Rhode Island and environs assembled in the same place the #WomensMarch had gathered 8 days prior, this time to denounce Donald Trump’s Executive Order on immigration, effectively known in this community, and across the US and the world, as the #MuslimBan. The assembly reflected so ...