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The Audacity of “Nope”: Why a Trump Presidency Is No Surprise

December 5, 2016March 17, 2017 Trimiko Melancon 2016 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, W.E.B. Du Bois

After the 2008 election of Barack H. Obama, the 44th President of the United States, it became customary for some

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Trump’s America Was Never a Democracy

November 28, 2016November 28, 2016 Guy Emerson Mount democracy, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Politics

History is rarely written in advance. Yet on January 20, 2017 we will likely witness the largest general strike and

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A Time of Monsters: Corporate Liberalism and The Rise of Trumpism

November 25, 2016January 2, 2017 Russell Rickford Barack Obama, diversity, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton

“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this

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Sitting Shiva: Mourning and Anger in Trump’s America

November 15, 2016November 14, 2016 Patrick Rael freedom

I’ve spent most of my life now studying my country’s history, and in particular the ways it has so consistently,

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Imagining An Antiracist America in the Wake of Trump’s Election

November 13, 2016November 13, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi Donald Trump, racism

In defiance of Donald Trump’s election on the platform of bigotry, and in defiance of the despair that is seemingly

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