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A street sign as been replaced with a hand-painted with a sign reading "Navalny St" as part of a memorial outside the Consulate-General of Russia, New York City, on February 18, 2024.
Russia
The Man Who Was Too Strong
February 20, 2024Anastasia Shteinert
Poster for Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. Purple and black poster with a black and white photograph of protestors and the text "The Fight for freedom ... is at home."
Israel/Palestine
Elite Capture and Racial Capital, from the University to Palestine
February 14, 2024Cresa Pugh, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Julie Beth Napolin
Soviet POWs covering a mass grave after the Babi Yar massacre, October 1, 1941. Credit: Johannes Hähle, Wikimedia Commons
Social Research
Preventing Genocide
February 14, 2024Kerry Whigham
Photograph of Palestinian man and children sitting outside a house after an Israeli air strike, in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, on October 12 2023.
Israel/Palestine
The US Should Only Support a Multiethnic, Nonsectarian Israel
February 13, 2024Stephen Zacks
Jeffrey Wright in American Fiction
Race
American Fiction Offers a New Spin on the Challenges Facing Black Artists
February 12, 2024Zenzelé Soa-Clarke
Color engraving of a staircase behind trees and playful geometric structures
New York City
The Elevator Paradox at The New School for Social Research
February 7, 2024Austin Tannenbaum
Why Now?
Sex, Death, and the Eyes of a Nation
February 7, 2024Claire Potter
Collage of Odilon Redon's painting of Cyclops with Paul Cezanne's painting of basket with apples
Higher Education
The Cyclopes in the Food Court
February 6, 2024Daniel H. Foster
FAFSA, College Financial Aid
Education
It Was Supposed to Make Getting College Aid Simpler. It Hasn’t.
February 6, 2024Center for New York City Affairs, Kim Nauer
Gaza City 2023
Worldwide/Transregional
Wars of De-Civilization
February 5, 2024Hamit Bozarslan
Elzbieta Matynia
Politics
Democracy’s Endgame?
January 31, 2024Elzbieta Matynia
Wolf Pack
Politics
Ethologies of Animal Politics
January 29, 2024Sue Donaldson, Will Kymlicka

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