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The Uses and Limits of Anti-Neoliberalism

February 7, 2017 • by Laura Nelson

There is a generalizing story circulating about the 2016 presidential election that is, I think, a clear example of how trust and suspicion not only can but must coexist whenever we reflect on events: call it “the anti-neoliberalism narrative.” The story goes like this: the establishments of both the Republican ...

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The Supreme Law of the Land

Standing Rock and the Dakota Access Pipeline

February 3, 2017 • by Jeffrey Ostler and Nick Estes

Donald Trump’s election only enhanced the sense that the fight is not won. Not only has Trump held financial interest in the pipeline (and likely still does), he is a friend of the fossil fuel industry and has never shown respect for American Indian nations. Pipeline advocates have challenged the Standing ...

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Sanctuary Campus

Resistance and Protection Within and Beyond the University

February 2, 2017 • by Alexandra Délano Alonso

In the days and weeks after the election of Donald Trump, hundreds of thousands of students, faculty, and staff at over 190 schools, colleges, and universities around the country have mobilized to create and sign petitions calling for their respective administrations to declare their campuses sanctuaries. These campaigns aim to ...

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Love, Solidarity & the #MuslimBan

In Providence, Rhode Island

January 30, 2017 • by Michael D. Kennedy

Some 2,000 people from Providence, Rhode Island and environs assembled in the same place the #WomensMarch had gathered 8 days prior, this time to denounce Donald Trump’s Executive Order on immigration, effectively known in this community, and across the US and the world, as the #MuslimBan. The assembly reflected so ...

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“Hamilton” and the Women’s March

A response to David Brooks

January 30, 2017 • by Renee Romano

He concludes his piece by offering the musical Hamilton as an example of what a more useful politics might look like. As Brooks writes, the march didn’t come close to offering a vision that can “rebind” the polity. “The musical ‘Hamilton’ is a lot closer.” His praise of Hamilton reflects that ...

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Fighting Over and On the Streets of New York

A Review of the ‘Whose Streets? Our Streets!’ Exhibition

January 17, 2017 • by Julia Foulkes

“Whose Streets” features the work of thirty-eight independent photojournalists who documented -- and participated in -- protests in New York from 1980-2000. The issues ranged from housing, abortion rights, housing, queer activism, AIDS, education and labor, police brutality, race relations, the war and environment -- there were a lot, and ...