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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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Gray is Beautiful Revisited

On the Politics of Sex and the Crisis of Democracy at Home and Abroad

December 23, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

This week I am returning to my appreciation of the color gray, a theme I promised to explore regularly here, which unfortunately I have only returned to occasionally, and not recently. I am returning to the theme on this the darkest of days -- I started writing this during the winter solstice ...

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Poland’s Growing Authoritarianism

On Facing the Implications of Recent Events

December 22, 2017 • by Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer

In order to restore real justice, unlike the EU-enforced one, there are no holds barred; and just because something is written in law doesn’t mean it’s just. It doesn’t even matter that some of these laws were created during the previous 2005-2007 PiS-led government or that they were signed by ...

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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 ...

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From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond

December 21, 2017 • by Nancy Fraser

At first sight, today’s crisis appears to be political. Its most spectacular expression is right here, in the United States: Donald Trump -- his election, his presidency, and the contention surrounding it. But there is no shortage of analogues elsewhere: the UK’s Brexit debacle; the waning legitimacy of the European ...

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Podemos or the Rise of Progressive Patriotism in Spain

An Interview with Íñigo Errejón

December 19, 2017 • by Gerardo Muñoz

Muñoz: Íñigo let me begin by thanking you for taking this time to speak with me about the current state of Podemos for a North American audience. Podemos is a relatively young political organization that emerged in 2014. In a matter of months, it became the second most powerful political force ...

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How I Survived 2017

Trump year 1

December 16, 2017 • by Noralee Frankel

On November 9, at two in the morning, I turned on the computer and saw that Clinton had lost the election. My whole body shook for hours, unlike anything I had ever experienced. In the following three days, I expressed my rage on Facebook and ultimately was unfriended by someone ...

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Terrorism and Talk

Everyday Life and Public Seminar after the Explosion Under the Port Authority Bus Terminal, the Election of Doug Jones and “Tax Reform”

December 15, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

I sat down to breakfast with Naomi, my wife: she reading the paper, we listening to the news bulletins. They were still vague. It was not known yet what the cause of the explosion was. At one point, the news announcer slipped and called the incident an attack, but then ...