What Tropics of Meta Knows About Politics
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View ArticleHow a Bad Bill Becomes a Bad Law: A Convoluted Process of Good Intentions and...
Kate is the projected valedictorian, and will graduate as #1 in her class, with a 4.0 GPA. Before […]
View ArticleFrom Border Ruffian to Florida Man: The Evolution of Voter Fraud in American...
Voter fraud is on everybody’s Twitter feed these days. While most everyone concedes that in person voting fraud […]
View ArticleBen Carson’s Unfortunate Cornerstone
The good doctor's latest pieties echo an ugly part of the American past, argues Steven Lubet.
View ArticleAll Together on a Life Raft in the Wine-Dark Sea
Pandemic life has shown us that loneliness and togetherness are closer to each other than we once thought.
View ArticleDaniel Schorr and Nixon’s Tricky Road to Redemption
Nixon long portrayed himself as a victim of the press. However, from the 1952 Checkers speech to his post-presidency PR offensives, Nixon proved himself an able manipulator of the media.
View ArticleBook Titles: From the Curious to Moxie
Courage, determination, aggressive energy, initiative. That was the radical style of Chicanas and Chicanos.
View ArticleCarmen Ramirez Presente: A Chicana in Positions of Power
At the close of Teatro Campesino’s 1972 film Los Vendidos/The Sellouts, originally a play written by Luis Valdez, a menagerie […]
View ArticleJina in Iran, Erased Kurdish Histories, and the Worlds We Need
The shouts. The demands. The pleas. The cries. They stretched from Tehran to Kurdistan across borders, lands, and waters.
View ArticleWe are bleeding and guns are our bandage
With the worst blizzard to strike Chicago in twenty years, I sat in the living room of a shared apartment at the University of Chicago watching the news. The news coverage sent chills deep down to my...
View ArticleA Festus for the Rest of Us
Cults and multilevel marketing schemes are more American than apple pie, it turns out.
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