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Is the U.S becoming a “Black Box Society” under President Trump?

Where we’ve been and where we might go

May 5, 2017 • by Jesse Noltimier

On a rather quiet Tuesday, the 28th of March to be exact, the House of Representatives voted to repeal a law that demanded ISPs (internet service providers) obtain users’ permission to share personal information, such as location data. This law, which was created under the Obama administration, required Internet service ...

Is the U.S becoming a “Black Box Society” under President Trump?

Education

What Hannah Arendt Really Wants

Reclaiming Space for the Vita Activa

May 5, 2017 • by Nuri Can Akin

There is an obvious reason why people in the U.S. have started to read George Orwell, Sinclair Lewis, Vaclav Havel, and Hannah Arendt again.[1] I must admit I share their concern: From the very first actions of the Trump administration, it became clear that the country has taken an authoritarian ...

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DC Climate March

April 29th 2017

May 5, 2017 • by Jo Freeman

Over one hundred thousand people marched down Pennsylvania Ave. from the Capitol on April 29, the one-hundredth day of Trump’s presidency. As though to emphasize the cost of global warming, Mother Nature graced the day with temperatures over 90 degrees. During the morning people gathered on the Mall in front of ...

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Ordnance as Ordinance

The MOAB bomb and the Biblical Roots of Our Endless War

May 5, 2017 • by Michael Weinman

In this light, both the decision to name this weapon MOAB and the decision to deploy it in Afghanistan is tightly linked with what Judith Butler called a “new military convention” begun by Colin Powell when he described the deployment of “smart bombs” during the first Iraq War as “the ...

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Populism as Neoliberalism

On John Smith’s Imperialism in the 21st Century in the Trump Era

May 4, 2017 • by Anonymous

Are neoliberalism and Trump’s populism incompatible? In the scattered debates that have arisen in the wake of his presidential victory, these two somewhat vague terms are contrasted with one another in order to make sense of his rhetoric of protectionism for US manufacturers and labor, to the detriment of immigrant ...

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Trump is an Authoritarian

In his actions and his words — and words are actions

May 3, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

In a recent piece in the Guardian, Corey Robin argues that “liberals” exaggerate the danger posed by Donald Trump, and do so because they pay “almost exclusive attention to what Trump says rather than what he does.” He attributes to liberals -- “journalists such as Vox’s Ezra Klein and academics ...