Guest posts
by Bas Hofstra
On the morning of November 9th 2016, many democratic-oriented Americans updated their Facebook timelines, unhappy and frustrated about a rather unexpected outcome in the U.S. presidential election. People were …
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by Milton Vickerman
It must be said that Charlottesville is a self-consciously liberal bubble—a blue dot in a red state (barring Northern Virginia) in which students routinely volunteer …
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by Hyein Lee and Margaret Chin
The Trump administration’s decision to (sort of) rescind DACA, despite formally announcing in June that the policy will temporarily remain intact epitomizes the contentious nature …
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by Seth Abrutyn and Anna S. Mueller
Note: this article contains spoilers and detailed discussions of suicide and sexual assault. Recently, Netflix released a series based on the young adult novel 13 …
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by Greg Fallis
Reprinted with permission. I got metaphorically spanked a couple of days ago. Folks have been talking about the Fearless Girl statue ever since it …
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by Steven Thrasher
Two beautiful Black boys’ faces kept looking out at me from my social feeds last night: Trayvon Martin’s, whose vicious killing by George Zimmerman five …
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by Dana R. Fisher
It's going to be a long four years for the progressive movement.
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by Reeve Vanneman
Working-class issues seem to have lost their salience, as if even American sociology was also telling them that they didn’t matter.
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by Zulema Valdez
Faculty organized a teach-in to address student questions, provide support, and encourage productive student engagement.
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by Eamon Whalen
The bigotry one faces being Muslim… it’s just very present. [A]s the band, we’re traveling around, we’re a motley crew, and sometimes people don’t how to interface with that. The reality is that there are things that require dialogue, that require a bit more attention, and that can’t just be let go because, “This person’s a bigot, this person’s a racist, and that’s what it is.” Yes that’s what it is, but let’s have a dialogue about it. The Gaadi of Truth is addressing that. …[T]hese are conversations that need to be happening.
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