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Coping With Trump

Trump year 1

December 9, 2017 • by Amy Fried

As a political scientist focused on political history, the politics of health care and public opinion, there’s been no way to turn off my brain or even my feelings in the age of Trump. At the state university where I teach, I work hard to be unperturbed on the job. While ...

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Surviving Trump

Trump year 1

December 7, 2017 • by Arlene Stein

In my household, Donald Trump’s reign of error has ushered in a stream of daily conniptions. He did what? He said that? These days, Cynthia and I exchange gasps of horror as we read the morning paper over coffee. We’ve instituted Trump-free zones, such as the bedroom, where we have a mutual ...

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Neither Normalization Nor Alarmism

Responding to Ivan Krastev

December 6, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

Krastev is surely right that the current situation is distinctive (indeed all situations are distinctive), and simplistic analogies to 1930’s fascism or 1970’s communism are misleading. He is also right that “alarmism” is mistaken (after all, when is “alarmism,” as opposed to “sounding the alarm,” ever a good thing?), and that the defense of democracy ...

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Just Showing Up

Trump year 1

November 30, 2017 • by Dorothy Potter Snyder

Watching Trump win the Presidency last November, I was afraid. I posted a note on our neighborhood website in Hillsborough, NC where my husband and I had been living for just six months: "Anyone want to have coffee and talk? It doesn't matter what you look like, believe, or for ...

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A Woman’s Work

A Library of One’s Own

November 18, 2017 • by Sara Georgini

Read the news with a suffragist of 1913. Women’s rights advocates scanning the society page of the Atlanta Constitution on the morning of 4 June had a bevy of personas to peruse. There was the “Woman Shopper” gliding through a downy Eden of department stores: “Your presence, your influence and the wholesome atmosphere that ...

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40th Anniversary of the International Women’s Year Conference

University of Houston celebrates feminism then and now

November 14, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

From November 18 to 21, 1977, over 20,000 people gathered in Houston, Texas to celebrate International Women's Year and identify goals for women for the next decade. This was the first and only national women's conference to be sponsored by the federal government. On November 6 and 7, 2017, a few hundred people ...

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What We Really Learned in Charlottesville

Finding a Way Forward

November 9, 2017 • by Andrew Boyer

By the standards of today’s whiplash news cycles, the coverage was in-depth and lasting. The media did not move on from the issue so much as it overexerted itself and wearily stumbled on to the Hurricane Harvey in Texas and Trump’s DACA repeal. When the dust settled, nearly everyone agreed ...

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#BlackLivesMatter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements

What active citizenship can look like and what it can accomplish

November 8, 2017 • by Deva Woodly

– Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison 1787 “We who believe in freedom cannot rest.” – Ella Baker 1964[1] Social movements are often regarded as potentially hazardous disruptions, uprisings that interfere with the normal mechanisms of politics -- insurgencies that must be either repressed or swiftly re-incorporated into the regular legislative process. In ...

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Pentagon Anti-war March

50 years later Vietnam War protestors reunite

November 3, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

On October 21, 1967 some 50,000 people marched on the Pentagon to "Confront the Warmakers" about the War in Vietnam. Fifty years later about one hundred of them met in DC to commemorate the event. They began the evening of October 20 with a small rally in front of the Pentagon. After a couple speeches, ...

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Who are the Rebels in the Catalan Democracy Crisis?

Evil is never obvious

November 1, 2017 • by Jordan Luber

Catalonia has 16% of Spain’s population. It accounts for 25% of its exports and 19% of the Spanish GDP. After Spain’s financial collapse in 2008, the secessionist movement began to gather steam, saying that Catalonia gives more money to Spain than it gets back.[1] In 2014 an unofficial, non-binding referendum ...