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Politics

Testimonio — Patricia

Brightly Cleaning Cooperative

May 2, 2017 • by International Women's Strike NYC

Click here for the English version. “Quiero hacer que las mujeres abran los ojos y pierdan el miedo.” Muchas mujeres creen que no trabajan. Creen que su labor -- ya sea lavar ropa ajena o vender productos -- no es trabajo. No nos damos cuenta de que sí lo es porque es ...

Feature

The Resuscitation of Truth

A Pragmatic Defense of Political Integrity

May 1, 2017 • by Laura Nelson

Time magazine recently re-purposed a cover-graphic and feature article from 1966, changing the title-question from “Is God Dead?” to “Is Truth Dead?” The central figure in this feature was, as you might expect, the current president of the United States. Donald Trump’s fondness for the lie, whether big or small, has ...

Education

The New School as a Sanctuary Campus

Taking a stance and making our campuses accessible, safe, and truly open

April 28, 2017 • by Alexandra Délano Alonso

Since the election of Donald Trump, like hundreds of universities across the country, The New School has been mobilized. Following the Executive Orders on Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements and Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States in January of 2017, faculty, students and staff ...

Psyche

The Insanity of Narcissism

Exploring Narcissism in Today’s Politics

April 22, 2017 • by Daniel Shaw

Mental health practitioners generally agree, since the Goldwater days, that it is not appropriate to offer psychoanalytic diagnoses of public figures we’ve never actually interviewed or treated. However, many of us, myself included, are chomping at the bit these days. It’s especially tempting for me, since I’ve been writing and ...

Feature

On Theorizing Neoliberalism

The Problems and Politics of a Critique

April 20, 2017 • by Bryant William Sculos

In a recent piece for Public Seminar, Jeffery Goldfarb explores the problems of the term and concept of neoliberalism, specifically its inconsistent application by those on the left. He claims that neoliberalism is used to describe a wide range of policy positions from public-private ventures up to the complete deregulation of ...

Feature

Putin May Have Bombed His Own Metro

It is not unthinkable. He’s done it before.

April 19, 2017 • by Jordan Luber

There was a vile terrorist attack in Russia on April 3rd, 2017. Some coward who believes his cause is greater than human life put a bomb on a metro car. It exploded while the car was in transit, passing between two of the busiest stations in St. Petersburg. A blast ...

Feature

In Defense of Sanctuary

The negation of a movement

April 17, 2017 • by Abou Farman

As the lights went out on the administration’s anti-healthcare initiative, Jeff Sessions, like the ringmaster of a three-ring circus, made a sudden appearance out from the darkness to train the spotlight once more onto sanctuary cities and bark about their criminal inhabitants, otherwise known as immigrants. Sanctuary policies, he claimed, ...

Multi Media

Pink Out the Capital

April 14, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

Roughly 500 women and a few men gathered on the east lawn of the US Capital building on March 29 to declare that "I Stand With Planned Parenthood." The Senate was due to vote on a resolution to permit the states to deny federal family planning funds to health care ...

Feature

Fly the Angry Skies

Airline Travel and the Militarization of Everyday Spaces

April 14, 2017 • by Claire Potter

Yes, he was threatening me with detention and a strip search. What had I done? I hadn't lost my temper. Not yet, at any rate. I hadn't even sighed or rolled my eyes. I had, however, explained that I was late for my flight and needed to be searched and released ...

Feature

Three Futures for the Democratic Party

The Party Beyond Hillary and Bernie

April 13, 2017 • by Macabe Keliher

The electoral defeat of the Democratic Party last November, coupled with a lackluster resistance to Trump and the Republican agenda, has exposed a political party long in decay. Having lost nearly one thousand seats in local and national elections over the past eight years, and then the presidency, the Democratic ...

Feature

Seeing Rikers, Closing Rikers

Making Incarceration Visible

April 11, 2017 • by Julia Foulkes

A year ago the New School hosted the opening of States of Incarceration, an exhibition created by hundreds of students and people directly affected by incarceration. Organized through the Humanities Action Lab, a consortium of 20 universities, the exhibition details the history of imprisonment in the U.S by a close ...