Look, I am ambivalent about the college occupations and tent camps. I am not sure of this as a strategy and I often don't see endgames to the idea of occupying space. But what do I care? Why should I be the person telling young...
protests
A student of mine told me about this situation in Atlanta before it led to violence and this is just crazy stuff. Basically, the Atlanta Police Department wants to log.
I've seen a lot of beautiful things in my life. I've been in the Sagrada Familia and The Louvre. I've seen Vienna and I've seen Bangkok. I've been at Copan.
We tend to generalize our discussions of American politics into liberal cities and conservative small towns. But of course it's far more complicated than that. When I was spending time in small-town western Pennsylvania, almost everyone I knew was left-of-center, though you saw plenty of...
The invaluable historian Robin D.G. Kelley had a great op-ed a few days ago on how we need to think about how we think about looting. Let me offer a.
One of the most amazing things about the protest against police violence is how universal they are. I have to say that an article about the electoral implications of these.
As my spouse pointed out this morning, it's certainly eyebrow-raising that on the same day Trump initiated a phone call with Putin he also ordered Federal law enforcement to cosplay as OMON. Putting that aside, I want to underscore Scott's point. Trump ordered a vicious,...
Tomorrow marks the twentieth anniversary of the Battle for Seattle--the protests against the World Trade Organization that was both a real attempt to create alliances between different movements and a.
This is outstanding: About 60 people protesting recent raids of the Western North Carolina's Hispanic community encircled a public picnic shelter where federal immigration authorities were eating lunch Friday afternoon..
The March for Our Lives yesterday attracted armed white men angry about anyone daring to challenge their extremist view of the Second Amendment. Of course it did. Because armed white male assholes have always intimidated movements intended to create a more equal and more safe...
The Cleveland police are protesting Browns players kneeling during the national anthem by doing their jobs and respecting the flag like they claim to believe oh actually also refusing to.
I'm sorry that I haven't been posting lately. Lots of travel and work. But I do have a shiny new episode of Foreign Entanglements—yes, I've joined the masthead there and thereby.