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Choose Your Elite: Edith Windsor, Hillary Clinton, or Donald Trump

Excerpt: Only the privileged get to jump on lifeboats to safety leaving everyone else to drown in seas of debt and poverty.  

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Feminism Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, and the Gender of Power

Excerpt: To point out that two such high-placed women in the world’s most powerful country had to negotiate their political lives through those of their husbands is not sexist: It simply points to the incredible sexism that still undergirds our political structure.

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On the Current Paranoia about Trump vs. Clinton

I think those who criticise critics of HRC for possibly enabling a Trump victory are over-invested in presidential politics and elections to the extent they don’t see how work actually needs to happen in other arenas and levels.

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 10, 2016: Illustration of presidential campaign buttons of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump running for the president's office.
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On Books and Publishing Politics

Review of Anthropology’s Politics: Disciplining the Middle East, in Electronic Intifada

Anthropology as a discipline has always been rooted in imperialism. 

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If I Cannot Snark At Your Revolution

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Review of Steven Salaita’s Uncivil Rites

“We ought to complicate academic freedom even as we vigorously defend it.”

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What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Race

Blue II (1961) - Joan Miro
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The problem with Fixing Wall Street Is It Can’t Be Fixed

More than ever in the history of capitalism, capital’s force is most evident in its invisible workings. 

Clinton smiling
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It’s Fiorina and Clinton, not Carly and Hillary

Excerpt: Naming is power, and how the press names and refers to candidates has everything to do with what values it assigns to them.

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Stop Fetishising Youth Organisers

Why assume that age gives either wisdom to the old or energy to the young?

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