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In an attempt to win back its blue-collar fan base and rebound from a presidential loss, the Democratic Party is doing what any sinking corporate entity might do: rebrand. According to the Associated Press (via the Washington Post), leading Democrats attribute their 2016 losses to voters not knowing what the party is all about — …
It’s been well over a year since Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump, but in the alternative reality of Fox News, she lurks like a shadow president. While Trump is the subject of an investigation into his administration’s potentially treasonous ties to Russia, Fox says the real collusion story is Clinton. The network also bashed her …
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“Syria for everyone”, picture taken in Raqqa in April 2013. Picture by Beshr Abdulhadi. Flickr.com (CC BY 2.0). Some rights reserved.The war in Syria has had important consequences in the country in terms of rising sectarianism and racism. In this in-depth article, I demonstrate the importance of a dynamic and open understanding of citizenship. Citizenship …
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The seeds sowed by Trumpism are beginning to bear fruit in America — and the harvest is rather rotten. Donald Trump openly pandered to white racial resentment in the 2016 election and, unfortunately, was awarded the most important job in the world. A study by Leonardo Bursztyn of the University of Chicago found that Trumpism …
Read More “Here’s A List Of Politicians With White Supremacist Ties Currently Running For Congress “
Barcelona March 8 feminists on strike. Banner slogan: "Ens aturem per canviar – ho tot: vaga feminista!" “Feminist strike: we strike to change everything.’ All rights reserved.Laura Pérez welcomes us to her office at Barcelona City Hall, which is still covered with posters from the feminist strike of March 8. On that day, the councillor …
THE GOOD NEWS: A huge crowd came out to support a gay football player being harassed by the Westboro Baptist Church. Jake Bain, a star running back and senior at John Burroughs School in Ladue, Missouri, has gone through a lot to earn his football scholarship to Indiana State University. He made headlines last …
Boğaziçi University, 2012. Wikicommons/ Turkmessage. Some rights reserved.From June 6 to Augus 4, 2016, I was a visiting assistant professor at the Political Science Department of Bogazici (Bosphorus in Turkish) University, the first American higher education institution founded abroad. This account is of my personal experience of the traumatic events that happened last year in …
Read More “The trauma of the attempted military coup as observed from a college campus in Istanbul”
Last year, a 10-year-old golf phenom from north Virginia was ordered by a judge to stop playing competitively for one year as part of a seven-year custody battle between her parents, Michael Vechery and Florence Cottet-Moine. According to the girl’s father, she had won 22 out of 33 kids tournaments in the past two years. …
Read More “Preteen Golf Phenom Keeps Winning One Year After A Judge Banned Her From Competition”
Rio de Janeiro. Mike Egerton/PA Wire/PA Images. Todos os direitos reservados. This article is published as part of our series Which Violence in Latin America? in partnership with the University of Santiago in Chile Approximately one year ago, a series of massacres within several Brazilian jails brought to light a problem that, far from being non-existent, had …
THE GOOD NEWS: Although President Trump holds animosity for his predecessor, his wife appears to like Barack Obama. Since taking on the role of first lady, Melania Trump has sent mixed messages about her relationship with her husband. She’s appeared to refuse to hold his hand in public and body language experts say she looked …
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