An Ambitious Woman after the End of Ambition
When you don’t shift with the vibe
Ambition has always been a squicky term when applied to women....
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Statewide Democratic Candidates Rally in Brooklyn
A photo essay
The Democratic candidates for all five of New York’s statewide offices on the 2022 ballot rallied the troops in downtown Brooklyn on Saturday afternoon before election day. They were all incumbents seeking re-election. ...
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Historic Women’s Rally in NYC Five Days Before the Election
A photo essay
Seven top Democratic women and one man spoke at a Women’s Vote rally at Barnard College on November 3. All but one were New York elected officials. Many were “firsts” in their jobs. The sheer number of women officials was historic by itself. This rally illustrated that having many women ...
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Texas Women Just Lost Their Right to Their Own Bodies
It’s time to fight back, and time to understand the anti-feminist backlash that allowed this to happen.
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I am frothing and devastated watching the Supreme Court allow Texas to functionally overturn Roe v. Wade. I’m angry in a million different directions: At the woman-hating “pro-life” movement that has spent decades working up to this moment; at Democrats who have never done enough to preserve abortion rights; at ...
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What You Learn When You Talk to Conservative Students
College professors and college administrations have to do better–we are losing these kids to extremism
"We have a tough job in the next four years as we try to rebuild a more inclusive and truly democratic national conversation." - Claire Potter...
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Vesna Kesic
In memoriam
Photo: taken by Stephanie Damoff (provided by Elzbieta Matynia).
Elzbieta Matynia is a Professor of Sociology at The New School for Social Research and Director of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies.
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Biden Versus Trump: Whose Story of America Will Americans Choose?
“That’s not who we are” — or is it?
As Plato suggested in The Republic, politics is driven more by stories than facts.
As different as they are in all other regards, America’s last two presidents both won wildly improbable electoral victories while telling completely contradictory stories about their country. Barack Obama made his own hopeful story a symbol of ...
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When the Trump Circus Came to Town
The fallout from a 2019 visit to Greenville, North Carolina
Trump’s propaganda machine was running full tilt in the summer of 2019, in the weeks leading up to a rally Trump would hold in Greenville, North Carolina, the town where I live and work (teaching at Eastern Carolina University). The year before, the administration had abruptly implemented a brutal policy ...
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Is This Regime Change?
The old order has entered a period of decay and illegitimacy
Thanks to Donald Trump, white Americans are starting to see the United States through the eyes of black Americans, who experience, every day, police departments deploying an array of Gestapo tactics. Black Americans, in other words, understand fascism intimately. White Americans are finally seeing that the point of Black Lives Matter ...
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Amy Cooper: The Paradox of the Shameless White Liberal
How pious white anti-racism can contribute to racist behavior
It is unclear what the appropriate consequences for something like this should be, given how dire the consequences of her actions could have been (as recent events in Minneapolis sadly confirm). However, Ms. Cooper has already paid a high price for her transgression: She has been publicly shamed and terminated ...
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The Bloomberg-Clinton Ticket is a Myth
But it points to the troubling fact that political disinformation is being deliberately spread by legitimate news outlets
What was also predictable is that Donald Trump’s media handmaidens would find a way to bring Hillary Clinton into it. They will do this regularly for the rest of the 2020 cycle. They will do this, not just to increase the chaos, but to divert attention from the charges of ...
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The History of American Progress is also Jewish History
On the final night of Hannukah, we put Jews at the center of the American narrative
Election
results and public opinion polls reveal that among white Americans, Jews have
consistently been the most liberal and progressive ethnic and religious
group. In 1920, when only 3 percent of Americans voted for Eugene Debs,
the Socialist Party candidate for president, Jews gave him 38 percent of their
votes. In 1932, when Franklin Roosevelt ...
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