Week of January 14

• The Grassroots Politics Syllabus
  An American Reckoning

  Deva Woodly

  Associate Professor of Politics and Director of Undergraduate Studies at The New School for Social Research.
  Democracy is Losing the Online Arms Race

  Howard Rheingold

  Freelance journalist and technology critic
  Is America Going Down Like Custer?

  Deanne Stillman

  Core faculty member, UC Riverside-Palm Desert Low Residency MFA Creative Writing Program.
  Academia, Grassroots Organizations, and Debt

  Ann Larson

  Founding member the Debt Collective, which organized the student debt strike against Corinthian Colleges.
  Could Populism Actually Be Good for Democracy?

  James Miller

  Professor of Politics and Liberal Studies, and Faculty Director of the MA in Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism at the New School for Social Research.
  A New Era in America’s Racial Politics

  Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King
  When It Comes to Racial Justice, Why Is It Wrong to Demand the “Impossible”?

  Kristopher Burrell

  Assistant Professor of History at CUNY- Hostos Community College.
  Grassroots Asylum

  Simon Behrman

  Teaches law at Royal Holloway, University of London
  From Mad Cows to Coronavirus

  Sidney Tarrow

  Emeritus Maxwell Upson Professor of Government and Adjunct Professor, Cornell Law School
  Wired Politics

  Claire Potter

  Co-executive Editor, Public Seminar and Professor of History, The New School for Social Research