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Women Rule?

We’re Getting Closer

December 31, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

We may be in for another Year of the Woman. The last year to get that designation was 1992, which saw a great leap upward in the number of women elected to Congress, from 29 to 47 in the House and from 2 to 7 in the Senate. This followed ...

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Rally in DC for Palestine

Jerusalem is the demand. No embassy on stolen land.

December 29, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

Roughly two thousand people gathered on the southwest corner of the Ellipse to demand that the US not move its embassy to Jerusalem. In the shadow of the National Christmas Tree and the National Menorah, they said Jerusalem was the capital of Palestine, not Israel. While most participants stood around the platform, ...

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Protestant Missionaries and Immigrant Jews

Cosmopolitan Allies

December 28, 2017 • by David A. Hollinger

Countless Congregationalists, Methodists, and Presbyterians and other American Protestants were transformed by their experience in Japan, China, India, and the Arab societies of Western Asia. There, the missionaries encountered civilizations of intimidating complexity and power that had survived since antiquity. The same applied to a lesser extent to Africa and ...

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No-Platforming, “Unite the Right,” and New Free Speech Debate

Reexamining the Hannah Arendt Center’s invitation to Marc Jongen

December 26, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

As a Professor of Philosophy at Bard College Berlin honored to collaborate with Berkowitz and the Hannah Arendt Center on events both in New York and here in Berlin, I’d like to reopen this debate to touch upon Berkowitz’s invitation to Jongen itself and examine what light it sheds on the ...

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Caroling at the White House with the Seven Forbidden Words

Protestors sing for Trump’s impeachment

December 25, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

Some three dozen people gathered across the street from the White House a few days before Christmas to sing carols to President Donald Trump. A dozen were dressed in the red cloaks of the handmaidens from The Handmaid’s Tale. Their signs evoked recent events, such as the seven forbidden words. Others wore the ...

Caroling at the White House with the Seven Forbidden Words

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State Retirement Reform

Lifting Up Best Practices

December 24, 2017 • by Teresa Ghilarducci

In only six years, from 2011 to 2017: 40 states proposed bipartisan retirement reform to provide private-sector workers retirement coverage; 9 states enacted retirement reform; and 2 states have programs up and running. Since Trump's inauguration, 22 states proposed reform and Vermont signed it into law. In the 9 states that enacted plans, 3.5 ...

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The Republican Tax Bill

How to Murder Higher Education

December 22, 2017 • by Srishti Yadav

Higher education in the US, in general, has a particular structure. Universities have considerable tuition -- often higher than $30,000 per annum. Masters students usually receive some measure of a tuition waiver, and PhD and post-doctoral candidates often receive full or significant tuition waivers along with a stipend. These tuition ...