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Whose Home? Whose Rule?

Nandita Sharma’s Home Rule and the politics of autochthony

May 21, 2020 • by Mat Cusick

Nandita Sharma, Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (Duke University Press: 2020) In February 2002, five months after Narendra Modi became chief minister of Gujarat, an anti-Muslim pogrom erupted in his state. In three months of violence, Hindu nationalist rioters raped and murdered hundreds of Muslim ...

Migration

The Fragility of the Global Mobility Regime

What states could not do on their own, the virus has completed

May 19, 2020 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

For the past decade or so, immigration advocates in the global North have seen their primary opponents as populist parties and politicians, who rose to power on assertions that immigration is economically and demographically harmful to advanced democracies. It has been a long, drawn-out battle and, since Brexit and the ...

The Fragility of the Global Mobility Regime

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Neoliberalism’s Populist Bastards

A new political divide between national economies

February 15, 2018 • by Quinn Slobodian

This year, attendees at the World Economic Forum might have breathed a sigh of relief, believing that immediate threats to their existence had passed. Yet members of the so-called populist right in Germany and Austria entered parliament after big wins in elections at the end of last year. Their victories ...

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The Right’s Walls and the Left’s Commons

Critical reflections on the long – running clash between left and right

December 16, 2016 • by Todd Gitlin

In a knife-edge election, many are the causes that tip the balance between victory and defeat. Politics is, as Branch Rickey memorably said of baseball, “a game of inches.” Minor changes in a campaign scenario produce major differences. Surely Donald Trump’s victory derived in no small part from his appeal ...

The Right’s Walls and the Left’s Commons

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What Does “Draining the Swamp” Really Mean?

Alexandr Dugin, Putin’s Brain, Weighs In

December 11, 2016 • by Lev Marder

More than once President-Elect Donald Trump has promised to “drain the swamp.” Can he rid Washington of corruption? Is he already failing at the task? What Trump actually means by “draining the swamp” is not that clear, considering how poor he is at defining what he takes to be corruption or ...