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Politics
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The Waiting Is the Point: Time, Suffering, and Medicaid
“To be poor and sick in America is to live in delay. The Medicaid system does not just reflect that reality—it enforces it.”
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On Being Disruptive
To say that the protests were not disruptive helps us look for the real reasons as to why the police were called. There are many.
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The Campus Transformed: A Protest Archive
There is no better time to revisit the accounts and reflections from the spring uprisings, in the words of participants and onlookers themselves.
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The Porous Prison
“People who may have conceived of a child on a conjugal visit, and changed that child’s diapers and taught them how to fish inside prison, are now forbidden to give them a hug.”
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Frivolity Is Not Unserious
“When we try to write about trauma, no matter what the trauma we wish to explore, it’s the poet’s job to do their homework.”
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Violent Majorities Part III: Indian and Israeli Ethno-Nationalism
“This is what Hindutvites in India do all the time, and they’ve just repurposed their domestic disinformation campaign to support the Zionist defense of Israel.”
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Violent Majorities Part II: Indian and Israeli Ethno-Nationalism
“There are still atrocities being committed in the name of Jewish supremacism and in the name of territorial maximalism.”
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Violent Majorities Part I: Indian and Israeli Ethno-Nationalism
“We have to have some way to say you could be a Hindu without being Hindutva.”
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Protest Pedagogy
The encampments could be understood as masterful examples of project-based learning in civic engagement.
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The Postmodern War Machine—A View of “Dyspolitics” from Russia
This is a war of unusually pure propaganda, in which tanks and bombs are subordinate to bizarre rhetorical turns.
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Fighting Discrimination and Sexual Violence in Women’s Prisons
Even at the low-security prison that held actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, sexual violence against imprisoned women is rampant.
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Fatal Chase: Cops and the Illusion of Control
Police chases place ordinary citizens in grave danger. No amount of training or increasingly strict department policies will change that.
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What Works: Lessons on Fighting Oppression and Building Power From Across the Globe
When, how, and why does collective organizing achieve positive effects for those engaging in this difficult, and oftentimes risky, endeavor?
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Philanthropy’s Power Brokers
An in-depth reckoning with the Gates Foundation as a discrete actor is long overdue.
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Who Benefits from a “War on Corruption”?
Can anticorruption as a social movement or rhetorical strategy be a meaningful part of counterhegemonic resistance to such regimes?
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White Suburbs and Drug Wars
To understand the racism of the drug war, in other words, we must look to the ways policymakers sought to protect white suburban youth.
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Infiltrating the Family
For decades in the UK, police infiltrated the radical social movements by insinuating themselves into the intimate, romantic, familial, and comradely spaces of those on whom they spied.
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Permission to Jeer
It’s clear that something has changed in conservative politics over the last decade. An exploration of pro-wrestling fandom sheds light on why.
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The Border Patrol and Asylum Exclusion
Border Patrol has regularly abused its authority and mistreated immigrants and asylum seekers in countless ways. Yet its role as the frontline force in asylum exclusion has only grown.
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“Things Happen, As They Do in War”: From Chaucer’s Siege of Troy to the Siege of Gaza
“Troilus and Criseyde” is not often regarded as war poetry. But in 2024, it’s impossible not to see the truth at the poem’s core: it’s a work about a city under siege.
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An Open Letter to Harvard: Concerning Protest & Palestine
A group of disciplined students implore Harvard to demonstrate ethical forbearance and drop all of the dubious charges leveled against students who nonviolently protested for Palestine.
