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Democracy

“I’ve had enough”

When are we going to do something?

May 25, 2022 • by Heather Cox Richardson

Today, a gunman murdered at least 19 children and 2 adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. For years now, after one massacre or another, I have written some version of the same article, explaining that the nation’s current gun free-for-all is not traditional but, rather, is a symptom of ...

Politics

Jesus, Guns, Babies

Kandiss Taylor’s primary campaign for Governor of Georgia reminds us that Trump didn’t make the MAGA movement: they made him

May 24, 2022 • by Claire Potter

Kandiss Taylor, the Republican primary candidate for governor of Georgia that you have never heard of, has the best campaign slogan ever: “Jesus, Guns, Babies.” Talk about clarity on where she stands! She checks all the boxes. And although her central plank is the 2020 election conspiracy theory, she also ...

Europe & Central Asia

The Justice Train from Bucha

The establishment of a new special criminal tribunal becomes plausible

May 10, 2022 • by Victor Tsilonis

So what will happen in the end in the field of international criminal law after the end of the war in Ukraine? The train of justice will reach The Hague’s central railway station and the truth will shine for centuries to come. The final question is whether these serious legal ...

Psyche

An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

Rainesford Stauffer on young and emerging adulthood

April 12, 2022 • by Rainesford Stauffer

Young adulthood doesn’t exist in a vacuum: Systemic problems do impact how, or whether, young people meet the so-called milestones of young adulthood....

An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional

Social Research

The Global Rise of Xenophobia, the New Issue of Social Research

The New School journal unveils its latest issue

March 30, 2022 • by Social Research

The rise of Xenophobia, globally, has unfortunately become increasingly virulent. The latest issue of Social Research, through a set of case studies, draws connections between the personal and the political with contributions from Marci Shore, Erika Lee, Bálint Madlovics, Irena Grudzińska Gross, Sina Arnold, Jocelyne Cesari, Mehmet Kurt, Munawwar Abdulla ...

The Global Rise of Xenophobia, the New Issue of <em>Social Research</em>

Politics

How Movements on the Right and Left Differ—and Why That Difference Matters

Defiant oppositional disorder threatens Republicans and the future of democracy in America

March 30, 2022 • by Michael Tomasky

I believe that one can’t understand American politics today, and one certainly can’t properly understand the rise of Donald Trump, without keeping this aspiration/opposition distinction at the center of our analysis. Because just as the movements of Left and Right are different in this key respect, these differences inform and ...

How Movements on the Right and Left Differ—and Why That Difference Matters

Politics

Social Movements and Political Parties in the Making and Unmaking of Modern American Democracy

Taking a long view of a contentious history

March 28, 2022 • by Sidney Tarrow

Where can the American left go from here? How should the Democratic party respond to the continuing electoral potency of the illiberal currents that now dominate the Republican party? And how should movement activists respond?...

Social Movements and Political Parties in the Making and Unmaking of Modern American Democracy

Artificial Intelligence

AI Spy With My Little Eye: Facial Recognition

Cautioning the increased use of AI in law enforcement

March 23, 2022 • by Patrick K. Lin

The diversity of faces used to train an algorithm can influence the kinds of photos and faces that an algorithm is most adept at examining. If the set of face images is skewed towards a certain race, the algorithm may be better at identifying members of that group as compared ...

AI Spy With My Little Eye: Facial Recognition

Interviews

AI Remains Unchecked: A Conversation With Patrick K. Lin

How technology can mirror biases in our criminal justice system

March 23, 2022 • by Patrick K. Lin and Miko Yoshida

The diversity of faces used to train an algorithm can influence the kinds of photos and faces that an algorithm is most adept at examining. If the set of face images is skewed towards a certain race, the algorithm may be better at identifying members of that group as compared ...

AI Remains Unchecked: A Conversation With Patrick K. Lin

Politics

Did Putin Dupe Xi?

Plus: “Catastrophic hunger,” Ketanji Brown Jackson’s path to the Supreme Court, the Putinization of US Evangelicals, and an 11-point plan that will make the hair stand up on the back of your neck

March 21, 2022 • by Heather Cox Richardson

This week, President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping spoke about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, speaking personally for the first time since last November. In early February, before the invasion, Xi and Russian president Vladimir Putin met and issued a 5000-word statement pledging limitless “friendship.” But it ...

Politics

How Can MAGA Nation Believe the Unbelievable?

When facts fail to explain the present, belief and faith take over

March 14, 2022 • by Peter Nohrnberg

How have Republican office holders ignored a crucial contradiction of fact: that they ran, and won, on the same 2020 ballot, including in states where Biden was declared the winner?...

How Can MAGA Nation Believe the Unbelievable?

North America

The Future of the GOP

Has the Republic National Committee firmly dragged the Republican Party into Trump’s war on our democracy?

February 8, 2022 • by Heather Cox Richardson

Coming as the statement did, just after former President Trump said that Pence had the power to “overturn the election” and, that if reelected, Trump would pardon those who attacked the Capitol, it has put the Republican Party openly on the side of overturning our democracy....