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The Revolutionary Diane di Prima Dies at 86 by… | Poetry Foundation
We're devastated to share the news that Diane di Prima, the legendary poet, activist, crucial lifeline to the Beat generation and eventual Poet Laureate of San Francisco, has died at the age of 86. Her...
Trump's Justices Have Finally Spelled Out Their Hardcore Approach To Election Disputes
A Supreme Court order that backed a Wisconsin voter restriction served as a jumping off point for two President Trump-appointed...
Richard Alba
Originalism strikes again. As every schoolchild knows, George Washington complained bitterly when the New York newspapers refused to name the winner on election night in 1789.
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Brett Kavanaugh Signals He’s Open to Stealing the Election for Trump
Justice Kavanaugh cast doubt on the validity of mail ballots and endorsed a theory too extreme for the Bush v. Gore majority.
The Republican Identity Crisis After Trump
This Presidency poses stark questions about the ideological future of both parties.
Biden wins town hall ratings battle with Trump, drawing nearly 1 million more viewers than the president
Data shows Biden ahead of Trump in TV ratings after the two dueled on separate stages Thursday evening.
Here's Where The President Got His Latest Dumb Anti-Mask Talking Point
President Donald Trump on Thursday night cocked his head and spewed viral misinformation all over the American people, potentially infecting...
Richard Alba
Trump's utterly dumb claim that 85% of mask wearers catch covid suggests why he loses so much money. The claim reveals that Trump has no intuitive feel for quantitative magnitudes, something essential to making good business decisions.
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Trump administration rejects California's disaster assistance request for wildfires
The Trump administration has rejected California's request for a disaster declaration for six destructive wildfires that burned hundreds of thousands of acres across the state, including a massive central California wildfire that has become the...
Rudy Found Biden Emails That Totally Weren’t Stolen by Russia
Unless Trump’s lawyer is cooperating with a Russian hack-and-leak October surprise? Nah.
Richard Alba
Jonathan Chait seems to assume here that Russian hackers stole the e-mails in question, but why assume that? Isn't it just as plausible that they created them?
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Noem blames surge in cases on testing as hospitals fill
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Tuesday blamed South Dakota's recent surge in coronavirus cases on an increase in testing, even as the state saw a new high in the number...
NBC Says Trump Will Hold Town Hall Meeting Thursday, Competing Against Biden
The candidates were set to debate on Thursday night until President Trump bowed out. Now they will take part in dueling town-hall-style meetings, with Joe Biden taking questions from voters on ABC.
Richard Alba
Pathetic, NBC. Instead of a debate, where Americans get to hear both candidates answer the same questions, now we have a forced choice because of the network's decision to air Trump's competing town hall. Voters are poorly served.
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What happens when someone spends decades in America legally on ‘temporary’ status?
A government program called "Temporary Protected Status" allows some migrants to stay here for decades on end but does not provide for full participation in American life. Should it come to an end?
There Will Be No Trump Coup
A final pre-election case for understanding the president as a noisy weakling, not a budding autocrat.
An American Coup Attempt
Time may be running out to expose the effort to overthrow Trump, which began before his election.
Richard Alba
This is perhaps the most disgraceful editorial published by a major American newspaper in recent history. It claims a coup attempt against Trump rooted in the Russia "hoax." Brazenly selective recounting of events that could inspire more violence.
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Of Self-Sucker Punches and Bust Outs
As I mentioned last night, I think there’s a decent chance Mitch McConnell suckered President Trump into canceling stimulus bill...
Richard Alba
Persuasive argument from @TPM @joshtpm that Republicans are giving up on the election and are ditching stimulus talks to set up a difficult economy for Biden/Harris. Then they can block ameliorative actions as they did to Obama.
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The “Irish question”: marginalizations at the nexus of sociology of migration and ethnic and racial studies in Britain
(2020). The “Irish question”: marginalizations at the nexus of sociology of migration and ethnic and racial studies in Britain. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 43, ERS Open, pp. 96-114.
Richard Alba
A brilliant reminder of the continuing power of colonizations within Europe, of one "white" group by another. This is a blind spot for much sociological analysis because of the filtering of the racial lens.
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Trump says he's leaving the hospital as he downplays Covid-19
It's been more than two days since President Donald Trump was airlifted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, but Americans remain largely in the dark about the trajectory of his infection with Covid-19 as the White House tries to control...
Richard Alba
So Trumpian! I made a fortune without any help, so if you didn't, it's your fault. I am so healthy I overwhelmed the coronavirus, so if you didn't,...
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HOW TO WATCH: Graham, Harrison face off in first televised debate Saturday
Incumbent Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham faces Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison in a key race that could aid Democrats' efforts to flip the Senate.
Call for applications: Interdisciplinary postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard Population Center
The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies is now accepting applications for its postdoctoral fellowship program—the David E. Bell Fellowship. We offer competitive salaries, benefits…
The Great Demographic Illusion
Why the number of young Americans from mixed families is surging and what this means for the country’s future