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On Power Couples

Power couples are scum multiplied into two.

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Weekly Roundup: November 11, 2015

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On Books and Publishing Politics

Review of Steven Salaita’s Uncivil Rites

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

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Prison industrial complex

America’s Prison Problem Is Too Complicated for Mark Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg’s power and influence provides expensive cover for the brutality that the prison-industrial complex inflicts upon its inhabitants…

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Weekly Roundup, October 20, 2015

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Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

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

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Politics

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. 

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Weekly Roundup, October 11, 2015

As he put it, “I’ve heard stories of people put that put their friends on [their insurance plan],” Jones said. “I think that we need to ensure that the state taxpayers are only funding married people and their dependents.” Well, then.

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Weekly Roundup, October 4, 2015

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Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Matt Damon and the Case against Coming Out

It’s not that queerness has to be resisted or kept a mystery, but that heterosexuality is always a work in progress.

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