An Impossible Friendship and the Possibilities of Friendship in...
An Impossible Friendship invites us to glimpse alternative possibilities within and alongside the fraught history of Israel/Palestine. The post An Impossible Friendship and the Possibilities of...
View ArticleWhy History Lessons Are So Threatening to Those with Power Chana Teeger
Erasure and denial of the past are not the only ways to suppress historical claims and reproduce privilege. Chana Teeger's research in two racially diverse South African schools shows how the past can...
View ArticleAre You Avoiding the News These Days? You’re Not Alone. How to Stay Informed...
It is hardly news that many see reporting on current events as anxiety-inducing, soul-crushingly depressing, or worse. What is new are the growing numbers who now say they are actively avoiding it....
View ArticleHow to Depolarize Your Home, Workplace, and Community A Listicle on The Way...
Peter T. Coleman’s book The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization offers a comprehensive guide to addressing and mitigating the deep political and social divides that characterize contemporary...
View ArticleWill Race and Gender Influence Opposition to Kamala Harris? Matthew Tokeshi
Kamala Harris is the first Black woman to be a major party’s nominee for president. Her candidacy raises the question of whether race and/or gender will be grounds for opposition. In my book,...
View ArticleWas January 6, 2021, a Rehearsal for a Greater Threat to American Democracy?...
As a presidential candidate and the president of the United States, Donald Trump played a starring role in bringing hate speech, violent threats, and actual violence into the political mainstream. As a...
View ArticleThe War on MothersGil Anidjar
I am my mother’s child. Like every soul on earth, I have been mothered. Whence my writing on, to and from, mother We tell ourselves many stories, and many of them have to do with beginnings. The...
View ArticleA Historical Roadmap to Understanding the United States’ Relationship with...
How does one make sense of the relationship between the United States and China? Where should one even begin? China and the United States are the world’s two largest economies by a significant margin,...
View ArticleSix Animal Tracks to Look for on Your Next Hike Sharman Apt Russell
Imagine walking along a forested mountain trail and coming across footprints impressed in the dirt. You think, “Do they belong to a fox, a bobcat, or a coyote? What animal fits these marks on the...
View ArticleFive Scientists with Disabilities Whom You Should Know Skylar Bayer and Gabi...
In 2018, we (Skylar and Gabi) got together and decided that we would create a book with a diversity of stories about disability and medical conditions in STEM, help contributors tell their stories in...
View ArticleBeyond Repair: The Psychic Life of Reparation Carolyn Laubender
Ten years ago, on June 15, 2014, Ta-Nehishi Coates published his watershed Atlantic article, “The Case for Reparations.” An immediate cultural flashpoint, Coates’s piece sought to legitimize the demand...
View ArticleTechnology and Vannevar Bush, Fifty Years Later G. Pascal Zachary
On his death fifty years ago, Vannevar Bush was celebrated with a page one obituary in the New York Times. He died quietly in his home in the late hours of June 29, and his passing was met with the......
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