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How Banks Are Squeezing Their Staff

Banks were always difficult places to work, now conditions are even tougher

February 16, 2021 • by Anna K. Wood and Terri Friedline

_____ For the last eight years of her 30-year career in banking, Melinda worked in the compliance department of a small community bank in Florida. Yet, when we spoke to her last year, she told us she expected to soon lose her job. Her customers were struggling. Many lost their jobs ...

Democracy

The Future of a Delusion

Why Trump’s followers still have faith in him

February 15, 2021 • by John Ehrenreich

Noon on January 20 was a “ding-dong the witch is dead” moment for many. Defeated in the election, discredited by the invasion of the Capitol, and impeached for a second time, Donald Trump disappeared into his Mar-a-Lago mansion. His hold on the Republican Party and the nation seemed over. But though ...

Higher Ed

A Relevant Education

The New School in the 1960s

February 12, 2021 • by Howard Kirschenbaum

———— After such a vital summer of civil rights work in Mississippi in 1964, I could not see returning to the ivory tower of Johns Hopkins, where most academic courses seemed to have no relevance to the real world issues that concerned me. Shortly after returning from the Democratic National Convention ...

Europe & Central Asia

How the Most Powerful Frenchman in the World Embraced the Philosophy of Sade – and Lost All of His Power

Libertinage isn’t liberating, it’s a form of fascism

February 11, 2021 • by Mitchell Abidor

_____Recently, I’ve been watching Jalil Lespert’s Netflix miniseries Room 2806: The Accusation. This four-episode docu-drama recounts the rise and fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, at the time the President of the International Monetary Fund and a leading candidate for the French presidency. Strauss-Kahn (familiarly known as DSK) was arrested in New York ...

How the Most Powerful Frenchman in the World Embraced the Philosophy of Sade – and Lost All of His Power

Columnists

Don’t Believe the Republicans. The Fix is In

The only authority they respect is theirs

February 11, 2021 • by John Stoehr

I know what Mitch McConnell said, but I’m not a fool. Neither are you. He continues to leak information about “his thinking” to reporters who in turn tell us the Senate minority leader believes a vote for Donald Trump’s guilt or innocence is a matter of conscience in his party, ...

Don’t Believe the Republicans. The Fix is In

Columnists

The Case for Impeachment

As Donald Trump’s second trial begins, Representative Raskin warns the Senate that to not convict is to invite future presidents to do whatever they need to do to hold on to power

February 11, 2021 • by Heather Cox Richardson

The second impeachment trial for former president Donald J. Trump began on February 9, this time for incitement of insurrection against the American government. Still, the people who are really on trial are the 50 Republican senators judging Trump’s guilt. The impeachment trial, this time around, covered whether it is constitutional to ...

Politics

Will a Truth Commission Open the Door to Unity, Reconciliation, and Healing in the United States?

Some Americans say yes, but in South Africa and Rwanda they have produced mixed results

February 11, 2021 • by Ereshnee Naidu-Silverman

_____ Following a tumultuous and divisive four years under the Trump administration that culminated in white extremist groups storming the U.S. Capitol, Joe Biden’s inaugural speech as the 46th president of the United States focused on rebuilding, healing and restoring the nation. Since Biden gave that speech on January 20, the ...

Will a Truth Commission Open the Door to Unity, Reconciliation, and Healing in the United States?

Politics

The Confederate Flag as a Symbol of White Supremacy – and How Black Americans Have Defied It

Besides tearing it down and burning it, Black artists have also used it to craft spectacular counter-images

February 11, 2021 • by Matthew Pratt Guterl

_____ Kevin Seefried, a goateed white man dressed in jeans, a dark hoodie, and a brown outdoor vest, casually strolled through the atrium of the Capitol building on January 6, 2021. Over his shoulder was slung an oversized, six-foot-long version of the so-called “Stars and Bars,” the battle flag of the ...

The Confederate Flag as a Symbol of White Supremacy – and How Black Americans Have Defied It

History

Can History Tell Us Whether Trumpism Is A Fascist Movement?

Four lessons from Japan’s journey to war in the 1930s say that we should be asking other questions

February 11, 2021 • by Ian Rapley

"In other words, left unaddressed, the danger is that the ideas and networks behind January 6th’s events will resurface again. "...

History

Insurrection and Apocalypse: Staring Down Monsters, from the Middle Ages to America Today

How the medieval understanding of redemptive violence can illuminate the impulses of some Christian conservatives today

February 11, 2021 • by Jehangir Yezdi Malegam

Nine hundred years ago, on April 25, 1112 – an Easter Sunday – a mob in the French town of Laon rose up in a carnival of vandalism and homicide. Witnesses describe a world turned upside down. Merchants murdered the local bishop and set fire to the town’s cathedral. Serfs ...

Insurrection and Apocalypse: Staring Down Monsters, from the Middle Ages to America Today

History

Collars, Cuffs, and History Collaborations

With Welcome to Your Fantasy, a well-known history podcasting team takes on the Chippendales dancers

February 10, 2021 • by Claire Potter, Nicole Hemmer, Neil J. Young and Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

"with that, this interview is history."...

Collars, Cuffs, and History Collaborations

Politics

All the Political World’s a Stage

Donald Trump’s impeachment trial will put Republicans, Democrats, and the idea of justice on trial too

February 9, 2021 • by Peter Nohrnberg

On the 9th of February, the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump will begin: the outcome is all but assured. Although Trump himself will likely be exonerated, neither political party will be easily freed from the burden brought upon them by his presidency. The trial will be a test and ...

Essays

How Banks Are Squeezing Their Staff

Banks were always difficult places to work, now conditions are even tougher

The Future of a Delusion

Why Trump’s followers still have faith in him

A Relevant Education

The New School in the 1960s

How the Most Powerful Frenchman in the World Embraced the Philosophy of Sade – and Lost All of His Power

Libertinage isn’t liberating, it’s a form of fascism

Don’t Believe the Republicans. The Fix is In

The only authority they respect is theirs

The Case for Impeachment

As Donald Trump’s second trial begins, Representative Raskin warns the Senate that to not convict is to invite future presidents to do whatever they need to do to hold on to power

Will a Truth Commission Open the Door to Unity, Reconciliation, and Healing in the United States?

Some Americans say yes, but in South Africa and Rwanda they have produced mixed results

The Confederate Flag as a Symbol of White Supremacy – and How Black Americans Have Defied It

Besides tearing it down and burning it, Black artists have also used it to craft spectacular counter-images

Can History Tell Us Whether Trumpism Is A Fascist Movement?

Four lessons from Japan’s journey to war in the 1930s say that we should be asking other questions

Insurrection and Apocalypse: Staring Down Monsters, from the Middle Ages to America Today

How the medieval understanding of redemptive violence can illuminate the impulses of some Christian conservatives today

Collars, Cuffs, and History Collaborations

With Welcome to Your Fantasy, a well-known history podcasting team takes on the Chippendales dancers

All the Political World’s a Stage

Donald Trump’s impeachment trial will put Republicans, Democrats, and the idea of justice on trial too

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