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November 11, 2016
Congress has already granted wide power to the president to alter immigration rules, so he will not need congressional approval.
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Candidate Trump was never particularly specific on the policy details of how the Muslim ban would work. But with President-elect Trump set to take office in January, and his pledge to implement the ban on day one now...
November 10, 2016
For all you political junkies out there, you’re probably aware that there was a presidential election last night. The Republican candidate – Donald Trump – emerged the winner, but some people (like millions of them) are kind of terrified by this result.
Perhaps that explains why filmmaker Michael Moore’s Facebook post today is currently going crazy viral. His “...
November 10, 2016
For years now, before anyone thought a person like Donald Trump could possibly lead a presidential primary, a small but respected niche of academic research has been laboring over a question, part political science and part psychology, that had captivated political scientists since the rise of the Nazis.
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How do people come to adopt, in such large numbers and so rapidly,...
November 10, 2016
The right is on the move—in Britain, Hungary, Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, India and now, far more importantly than any of those, in the United States. If Marine Le Pen can win in France in 2017 then fascism will truly have arrived, just seventy years after we assumed it had been banished for good.
Press Association Images/Paco Anselmi: Donald Trump as he makes his...
November 10, 2016
The new nativism thrives off the failures of neoliberalism. We have entered a dangerous era of anti-liberalism.
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A few thoughts on the causes and consequences of Trump’s victory:
- Bill Clinton’s legacy may have cost Hillary the election. It’s now clear that NAFTA, the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act to regulate banking, and the...
November 9, 2016
Donald J Trump has declared victory in the US presidential election. The candidate took the stage in New York just before 3am local time to announce that his rival, Hillary Clinton, had called him to concede the race.
Donald Trump claims victory in New York. Mike Segar/Reuters
“The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer,” the president-...
November 9, 2016
Sri Lanka has been lauded for equal access to education for girls and boys, but textbooks and traditions continue to play a role in perpetuating inequitable gender norms and stereotypes.
Sri Lanka has in some circles been considered a model of post-colonial gender equality compared to its South Asian counterparts due to high literacy rates for men and women, 97.7 and 98.6 respectively,...
November 8, 2016
पिछले महीने 26 अक्टूबर को कनाडा की संसद ने इस्लामफोबिया विरोधी प्रस्ताव पारित किया। कनाडा और दुनिया के दूसरे हिस्सों में मस्जिदों और मुस्लिम समुदाय पर हुए हाल के हमलों को देखते हुए कनाडा की संसद में यह प्रस्ताव पारित किया गया है। हालांकि यह प्रस्ताव अभी कानून नहीं बना है लेकिन इसमें हर तरह के इस्लाम फोबिया की निंदा की गई है।
कनाडा के 70000 लोगों ने ऑनलाइन याचिका पर हस्ताक्षर कर इस्लाम के...
November 8, 2016
If the winner is Clinton, a chorus of commentators will celebrate it as a great step forward for women. None will mention Clinton’s victims: the women of Syria, Iraq and Libya.
The American journalist, Edward Bernays, is often described as the man who invented modern propaganda.
The nephew of Sigmund Freud, the pioneer of psycho-analysis, it was Bernays who coined the term “...
November 8, 2016
12 things we can't ignore as America votes.
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For John Berger at 90, whose uncompromising tenderness and compassion shows us how to look hard yet be full of care.
1. There should be a plural term for violences. This would let us talk about how to choose between violences. Today, this would mean judging between different ‘brands’ of violence in the...