The Problem of Black History Month
Gordon Barnes Every February in the United States (as well as Canada), and throughout October in the United Kingdom,...
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The Purge of Academics in Turkey
Eylül Fidan Akıncı By the state of emergency Statutory Decree No. 686, 330 academics in Turkey were dismissed from...
Responses to the Trump Regime
Ashley Marinaccio The inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the forty-fifth President of the United States mobilized millions of...
Trump, Brexit, and the Abject Poverty of Liberalism
Gordon Barnes Two seemingly monumental and world-historic events occurred in two of the most powerful imperialist countries this year....
Demonetization in India: The Political Economy of Waiting Time
Bhargav Rani Everybody in this country remembers what they were doing on the evening of November 8. It is...
The Dark Side of the American Revolution: A Review of Robert Parkinson’s The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution
Evan Turiano Civics curricula in the United States teach us a particular narrative about the American Revolution in terms...
Writing Resistance in the Age of Surveillance: A Comparative Review of Steven Salaita’s Uncivil Rites and Moustafa Bayoumi’s This Muslim American Life
Erik Wallenberg The recent report on allegations of anti-Semitism within the CUNY system acknowledges that Students for Justice in...
The Difficulty of Making a Voting Decision
Who to vote for in the upcoming election? That is the question. In past elections, the most important things...
Freedom of Expression Under Threat at CUNY, Again
The CUNY Board of Trustees is, yet again, adamant on reconsidering the deeply problematic CUNY Policy on Freedom of...
Where is The Money Going?
Janet Werther On August 4 2016, CUNY’s union, the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) announced that the new contract, negotiated...
