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What Does the Idea of Misogyny Really Describe?

A response to Liza Featherstone

December 31, 2019 • by Eli Zaretsky

Often “misogyny” is used to refer to gender-based disrespect or misrecognition; in other w0rds, bad attitudes toward women publicly deployed. Here the term is a species of folk psychology, reflecting the word’s Greek root, hatred of women. Misogyny, in this usage, also signifies that this hatred, translated into action, is a moral wrong. In ...

What Does the Idea of Misogyny Really Describe?

Latin America & Caribbean

Democratic Degradation and the Bolivian Coup

A response to Andrew Arato’s reflections on Bolivia

December 30, 2019 • by Leonardo Avritzer

In his recent article “Coup, Revolution or Negotiated Regime Change: The Case of Bolivia,” Andrew Arato responds positively to the latest political developments in La Paz. In disagreement with his Latin American students, he expresses the following caution: “I hesitate to concede the point [there was a coup] to begin ...

Democratic Degradation and the Bolivian Coup

Activism

Fonda’s Firedrill Fridays

December 28, 2019 • by Jo Freeman

Each features a rally on the southeast quadrant of the Capitol lawn followed by a short march and mass civil disobedience in a different location. The theme varies. On November 29 (the day after Thanksgiving) it was Food Justice and Agriculture. On December 20 it was it was Health. Held the day before ...

Latin America & Caribbean

Authoritarian Coup or Deposed Authoritarian Leader

A response to Andrew Arato’s reflections on Bolivia

December 27, 2019 • by Enrique Peruzzotti

In the past, coups were coups; they were all-or-nothing events where there could be no disagreement over what occurred. Coups consisted of the unlawful removal of an elected government by a (non-elected) segment of the state apparatus (usually the military) and the temporary suspension of the constitutional order in a ...

Authoritarian Coup or Deposed Authoritarian Leader

Politics

Understanding Kashmir’s Crisis

Current narratives ignore key histories

December 26, 2019 • by Shubh Mathur

On August 5, the Indian government, headed by the hard-right Hindu nationalist party BJP, unilaterally revoked Articles 370 of the Indian Constitution, ending the limited autonomy of Kashmir. This move of dubious legality, carried out entirely without consulting Kashmiris, was supported by a majority in the Indian parliament. Anticipating bitter ...

Finance

Sovereignty, Financial Power, and Central Banks

Why bad critiques of finance spur right wing populism

December 25, 2019 • by Joseph Vogl, Dennis Ohm and Jochen Schmon

With sentences like this, Joseph Vogl became one of the most rigorous German critics of the austerity politics enforced by the so-called Troika in the aftermath of the European Debt Crisis. In his latest work The Ascendancy of Finance (2017) he deals with the political power of central banks. In this interview, ...

Sovereignty, Financial Power, and Central Banks

North America

Blue Dreaming at the Warren Debate Watch Party

A Letter from Hillsborough

December 24, 2019 • by Dorothy Potter Snyder

I told her I wanted to find out what Warren supporters in my small town are feeling about the Senator's chances of winning the nomination and the general election. I always posit that in North Carolina, the swingiest of the swing states, if you take the temperature here in little Hillsborough, you can find ...

Blue Dreaming at the Warren Debate Watch Party

Latin America & Caribbean

Reflections on Bolivia’s Coup d’État

December 24, 2019 • by Nicolás Figueroa García-Herreros

Clearly his hesitant rejection of attempts to frame these events as a coup derives from the very complexity of the situation. After all, what some people see as a coup, others can plausibly describe as a revolution. From Arato’s perspective, Morales not only broke the principle of legality when he ...

New York City

Even as Youth Suicides Rise, New York State Cuts Funds For Kids’ Mental Health

December 23, 2019 • by Abigail Kramer

When he’s well, Hauptman says, Cody’s a sweet 12-year-old. He likes to take care of rescue animals, and he fantasizes about winning the lottery and opening a center for young children with mental health problems. But when he’s sick, he suffers from episodes of psychosis, which often turn violent. His ...

Even as Youth Suicides Rise, New York State Cuts Funds For Kids’ Mental Health

Uncategorized

India Roiled By Protests

This is a watershed moment for the largest democracy in the world

December 21, 2019 • by Shiv D. Sharma

The act has been condemned widely by the Indian population, including the Chief Ministers of states such as Rajasthan, Kerala and West Bengal. Large-scale protests have broken out in various parts of the country, starting with the northeastern state of Assam; and at universities such as Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and Jamia Millia Islamia ...

Uncategorized

Nancy Pelosi’s Leverage over Mitch McConnell

She can threaten to reopen the House investigation into the President

December 21, 2019 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

But what is done is done. And this past week the Democratic majority in the House voted to impeach Trump.. And then things took a strange, and perhaps not unexpected turn. McConnell and other Senate supporters of Trump very publicly expressed their disdain toward the impeachment; McConnell indicated that he was consulting with the ...

Nancy Pelosi’s Leverage over Mitch McConnell

Sex & Gender

Don’t Pop the Champagne Yet on “They”

Cultural milestones are powerful — but is language a substitute for equal rights?

December 21, 2019 • by Jen Manion

In 2017, the popular tv show Billions introduced the nonbinary character Taylor Mason (played by Asia Kate Dillon) who used they/them pronouns in a significant recurring role. It features one of the most incisive scenes in television or film that captures the significance of nonbinary identity. Taylor says they don’t want to ...

Essays

What Does the Idea of Misogyny Really Describe?

A response to Liza Featherstone

Democratic Degradation and the Bolivian Coup

A response to Andrew Arato’s reflections on Bolivia

Fonda’s Firedrill Fridays

Authoritarian Coup or Deposed Authoritarian Leader

A response to Andrew Arato’s reflections on Bolivia

Understanding Kashmir’s Crisis

Current narratives ignore key histories

Sovereignty, Financial Power, and Central Banks

Why bad critiques of finance spur right wing populism

Blue Dreaming at the Warren Debate Watch Party

A Letter from Hillsborough

Reflections on Bolivia’s Coup d’État

Even as Youth Suicides Rise, New York State Cuts Funds For Kids’ Mental Health

India Roiled By Protests

This is a watershed moment for the largest democracy in the world

Nancy Pelosi’s Leverage over Mitch McConnell

She can threaten to reopen the House investigation into the President

Don’t Pop the Champagne Yet on “They”

Cultural milestones are powerful — but is language a substitute for equal rights?

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