topic: United States

Solidarity and Privilege: Amplifying #BlackLivesMatter and the Everyday Work of Liberation
December 10, 2014
The protests that followed the non-indictments of the racist, murderous police officers in the Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases have...
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Ferguson is Haunted by James Baldwin
December 5, 2014
As Ferguson burned with a raw rage against racial inequality and institutionalized violence this summer, legendary black American writer...
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Today in History: U.S. Still Not Party to Convention on Child Rights
November 20, 2014
Today marks an important anniversary in the history of children’s rights. On November 20th, 1989 the United Nations General Assembly...
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Conflict Kitchen closes over Palestinian cuisine
November 10, 2014
The controversy over Conflict Kitchen’s Palestinian iteration advanced by pro-Israel institutions demonstrates why initiatives like...
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The Death of Klinghoffer
October 23, 2014
On Monday, New York's Metropolitan Opera went ahead with its production of John Adams's The Death of Klinghoffer . The evening was met with...
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At War with The Skies in Our Eyes
October 11, 2014
Coming of age after postmodernism often seems like living a parody of our forebears’ concerns; it feels like we are testing the Society of...
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Law & Ebola
October 10, 2014
Can the United States government legally stop US citizens from traveling to certain "Ebola-affected" countries? Can the government restrict...
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On Teaching Violence: Trigger Warnings
October 9, 2014
After the great "trigger warning" debate of spring 2014, this semester marks the first time many university instructors are deciding how to...
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Terrorism Craves an Audience and We are Playing into the Islamic State's Hands by Watching
October 2, 2014
The well-known US security expert, Brian Jenkins, famously declared in 1974, that “ terrorism is theatre ”. And over the last few weeks,...