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Monthly Archives: November 2025
Racists are now openly targeting Indian Americans
Hate on the internet seems to grow by the month … racism was normalized, and now it is swamping us and endangering innocent people… where will this end? Racists are now openly targeting Indian Americans https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/us/indian-americans-racism-maga-cec
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Collective Action for Academic Freedom (Gary Krenz)
I mentioned in a comment that last week, we released a new collection of essays on academic freedom: In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis: Activism and the Struggle for Academic Freedom. (Shameless plug: available here.) This is a book I edited … Continue reading
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Tagged academic freedom, democracy, education, higher ed, higher-education, history, politics, teaching
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NYTimes: Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes
This is simply appalling. It is a blatant interference in the freedom of students to learn honest truths about their history and the freedom of professors to discuss matters of race and gender openly in their courses. Would a course … Continue reading
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Aziz Huq in the Atlantic — America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State
Donald Trump doesn’t need to destroy the court system to get his way, Aziz Huq writes. He just needs to create a shadow zone where the law no longer applies. Welcome to America’s “prerogative state”. Aziz Huq teaches law at … Continue reading
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Shutdown Resolution: Debacle, Destiny, Deliverance?
Like many of us, I suspect, I am still reeling from the Democrats’ whiplash reversal on the shutdown, thanks to 8 Dems going rogue and siding with Republicans to fund the continuing resolution. The Rogue 8 were able to gain … Continue reading
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Tagged democracy, donald-trump, government shutdown, healthcare, news, politics, trump
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The Washington Post Trump administration orders states to pause paying full SNAP benefits
The deliberate cruelty of this action is stunning … To deliberately interfere with states’ own efforts to cover the food crisis created by MAGA intransigence about SNAP is nothing short of barbarous. It is an overt and explicit statement that … Continue reading
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat: “Never underestimate the American people”
This evening Barb and I attended the University of Michigan’s annual Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom. This is, as far as I know, the nation’s longest running lecture (35 years) dedicated to academic and intellectual freedom … Continue reading
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Tagged democracy, history, intellectual freedom, politics, resistance
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Tonight, Americans’ democratic values spoke loud and clear
Tonight’s exhilarating election results were a large-D Democratic sweep that was also a small-d democratic victory. Democrats won the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey and the mayorship of New York City by getting out and connecting with the people … Continue reading
No Excuses for Greed and Selfishness
On Morning Joe today, they were talking about news companies appeasing Trump. As Mike Barnacle put it, “the blanket of fear” that President Trump has spread over everything, including the media, “is the largest story of our times.” Then Joe … Continue reading
Hunger and Cold Loom as Shutdown Imperils Funding for Antipoverty Programs
Here is a sickening rundown in the New York Times of the impact of the suspension of SNAP and other antipoverty programs on tens of millions of Americans … the Trump administration is entirely happy to leave poor people hungry … Continue reading
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Affirming Democracy, Gathering Resistance 