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Reflections from the LGBTQ Solidarity Rally

At the Stonewall Inn, NYC

March 3, 2017 • by Lina Landstroem

A few weeks ago, I went to the Stonewall LGBTQ Solidarity Rally. It was the first demonstration I had participated in since the election of President Trump; for various reasons I had not felt the need to go to one before that. Instead, I had been fighting the president’s discriminatory ...

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White European Women’s Rights

France’s Paradoxical Women’s Liberation

March 1, 2017 • by Hannah Leffingwell

While Clinton ran on the notion that “women’s rights are human rights,” Le Pen’s slogan might best be summed up as “women’s rights are white European women’s rights.” Employing xenophobic rhetoric all too familiar to Americans under the Trump administration, Le Pen has become the face of contemporary French nationalism, ...

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McCarthyism

An American Analog to Trumpism

February 23, 2017 • by Barbara Falk

Without denying the relevance of the European experience, however, I want to suggest there is plenty in U.S. history powerfully instructive to the present moment. When the Alien and Sedition Acts were passed in 1798, and again following World Wars I and II during the first and second “Red Scares,” ...

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Peddling Acquiescence as Unity

Exploring the complexity of empathic communication in the face of Trump

February 19, 2017 • by Laura Hooberman

Alongside the article’s publication, the Times’s political podcast The Run Up announced a three-episode series called “Dialogues” in which pairs of family and friends -- one Trump voter and one Clinton voter per episode -- would pose these questions to one another. Perhaps not unsurprisingly the dialogues, resting on necessarily ...

Democracy

What is Political Resistance?

An exploration of the word and its political connotations

February 16, 2017 • by William E. Scheuerman

Resistance now serves as a useful catch-all phrase for a diverse collection of individuals and groups outraged by our reactionary president and his allies in Congress. The term’s popularity rests on the sound shared intuition that the only way to stop Trump’s relentless Twitter-powered presidency is by no less relentless ...

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GTMO Is Open for Business

Be Afraid!

February 15, 2017 • by Jeremy Varon

On February 13, Republican Senators begged Trump in a joint letter to issue the order. Exceeding even its harsh terms, their letter called for the suspension of GTMO’s Periodic Review Boards (PRBs). First convened in 2013, the PRBs have cleared for release dozens of prisoners hitherto destined for indefinite detention ...

Education

What Black History Month Could Contribute

Teaching the truth of the Civil Rights Movement

February 15, 2017 • by Michael McQuillan

This trivialization denies young people their rightful awareness of the systemic nature of Jim Crow racism, along with the law-breaking and abuse of power by the southern state and local officials who sustained it. This prevents our youth from inheriting the magnificent legacy of unsung heroes and heroines who risked ...

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Post-Election America

UTNS 2016 | UTNS 5016 Syllabus

February 14, 2017 • by William Milberg

In response to the demand from students for information, for historical context and for analysis of the election and its possible consequences, the New School is mounting a 14-week series of lectures by New School faculty called “Post-Election America.” Lectures will be led by experts in the topic area and ...

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Sitting To Stand

Protest, Patriotism, and the Endurance of White Supremacy

February 13, 2017 • by Michael Sasha King

Since San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick decided to stay seated during the national anthem, this country has witnessed an extended attempt to diminish his act. Former quarterback Boomer Esiason said that Kaepernick was “about as disrespectful as any athlete has ever been,” whereas Hall of Fame baseball manager Tony ...