Todd Gitlin
Professor of Journalism and Sociology, Chair of Communications, Columbia University. Writer of nonfiction & novels. Troublemaker. Retweet is only pass-through.
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Joe Kennedy Will Challenge Ed Markey In Senate Primary
Democratic Rep. Joe Kennedy III has made his decision – he will run against Ed Markey in the upcoming Senate race.
McConnell changes position and backs $250 million for election security
Democrats said the Senate majority leader had finally caved into their pressure to safeguard the voting system.
Britain’s Journalistic Antihero
Carole Cadwalladr may be the most consequential journalist of her age. But is her activism undermining her reporting?
Todd Gitlin
Carole Cadwalladr may be the most consequential journalist of her age. But is her activism undermining her reporting? @b_judah met with her to find out.
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College-student voter turnout surged in 2018
The new data could signal a change in voting behavior going into the 2020 presidential election.
Strike With Us
Get ready for the #YouthClimateStrike!!! Our kids are freaked out about the #climatecrisis. Are you? TOMORROW we're striking in solidarity with students around…
TRIAL OF ACADEMICS: Academics for Peace Acquitted by 17 Courts
Having their final hearings in İstanbul and Kocaeli, four more academics have been acquitted in the wake of a verdict of “right violation” by the Constitutional Court. Academics for Peace have been acquitted by 17 courts across Turkey so far.
Donald Trump vs. Boris Johnson: America could get off easy compared with Britain
The British 'bluffocracy' ultimately may prove even more toxic than our own political afflictions. And Trump may be easier to dislodge than Johnson.
Todd Gitlin
A tale of two cynics, one a weirdo traitor to his class, the other its perfect embodiment. usatoday.com/story/opinion/… @AnthonyBarnett @toddgitlin @JamesFallows
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Fair Fight 2020 | #VoteSaveAmerica
Be a voter. Save America.
Todd Gitlin
The most important you can do today is to register voters and donate to @LWV and @fairfightaction
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Something Special Is Happening in Rural America
There is a “brain gain” afoot that suggests a national homecoming to less bustling spaces.
Elizabeth Warren speaks in New York City
Join us live from Washington Square Park tonight as I share the story of how working women organized to change the course of history—and how we can make the ...
A Royal Reality Check: How the Prorogation Crisis has Revealed the Queen as the Hollow Heart of the British Constitution
The greatest distinction of the Queen's realm – that she has always been ‘above’ politics – has led to her historic humiliation and Anthony Barnett to ask: what's the point of her?
Todd Gitlin
Her “nothingness, the hollow heart of the unwritten British constitution.” @AnthonyBarnett
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The late György Konrád on Jewish heritage in Europe (a keynote address from 2004)
The great Hungarian Jewish author and political dissident György Konrád died Sept. 13 in Budapest, aged 86. Konrad was born in the eastern city of Debrecen, but grew up in the small town of Berettyoujfalu. He and his immediate family
Todd Gitlin
Extraordinary statement from the late György Konrád on Jewish heritage in Europe (a keynote address from 2004) jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2019/09/16/the… via @JewishHtgEurope
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Opinion: UC investments are going fossil free. But not exactly for the reasons you may think
Divesting is less a moral imperative than risk-averse stewardship of the university's endowment and pension fund.
Todd Gitlin
Univ of California is out of fossil fuel stocks. Harvard & Columbia think they know something the Calif folks don't. Might they say what that is? Let's "engage," people! @DivestHarvard
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How Brett Kavanaugh Got the Last Laugh
Far beyond the news it breaks, "The Education of Brett Kavanaugh" is a grim reminder: Many Americans still doubt the seriousness of sexual-misconduct allegations.
Leading countries blocked from speaking at UN climate summit
Secretary-general takes tough line on select coal-supporting nations
Benjamin Netanyahu, best friend of the far right
Open access // by Eric Alterman (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, September 2019)
Todd Gitlin
Important piece by @EricAlterman on Netanyahu's membership in the Illiberal International. "The Brazilians honored the Israeli in a weirdly appropriate fashion, by lighting up its famous Christ the Redeemer statue in blue & white, like the Israeli flag."
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Gyorgy Konrad, Writer and Dissident in Communist Hungary, Dies at 86
Known internationally for books like “The Case Worker,” he was an advocate of individual liberty and played a prominent role after Communist rule ended.
Todd Gitlin
2/ it would prove the height of impotence, and also because he wanted to write. Once, in the last '80s or early '90s, I was walking around the UCSD campus with him in the bright lunchtime sun. He paused & asked in all innocence, "Is anyone unhappy here?"
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Trump’s Comments on the ‘Disloyalty’ of Jews Have a Sordid History
Neocons believed that a bit of evangelical anti-Semitism in exchange for bedrock support for Israel was a bargain.
Todd Gitlin
Trump’s Comments on the ‘Disloyalty’ of Jews Have a Sordid History via @thenation @ericalterman
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