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Adolph Reed Jr.
Adolph Reed Jr. is professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. For the March 2014 issue of Harper's magazine, he wrote, "Nothing Left: The Long, Slow Surrender of American Liberals." And more recently, along with Mark Dudzic, he wrote the essay, "The Crisis of Labour and the Left in the United States," which appeared in the Socialist Register (2015/Vol. 51).
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Views Sunday, June 25, 2017 Monumental Rubbish: With the Statues Torn Down, What Next for New Orleans? I’ve been in New Orleans since May 1. I came to visit my mother, who died on May 4, five months shy of her 95th birthday and was buried on May 10. That means I’ve been here through much of this latest round of public cavil over the city’s decision to remove the four most conspicuous monuments to... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 18, 2016 Vote for the Lying Neoliberal Warmonger: It’s Important In 1991, former Klansman and American Nazi Party functionary David Duke ran for governor of Louisiana and made the runoff election against Democrat Edwin Edwards, the popular but scandal-plagued three-term former governor. Duke had made the runoff between the two top vote-getters since no one... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 11, 2016 The Battle Over Trump's Taj Mahal Is a Battle for Us All In Atlantic City right now workers at the Trump Taj Mahal casino hotel, members of UNITE HERE Local 54 , are waging a struggle that should make it one of those crystallizing flashpoints that garner national attention and mobilize support from the entire labor movement, progressives, and working... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, December 22, 2015 Sanders Challenges Neoliberal Stranglehold with Call for Free Higher Education The recent New York Times op-ed by N. Gregory Mankiw, " Three Reasons for Those Hefty College Tuition Bills ," is pure ideological huffing and puffing of the sort we'd expect from a former chair of George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisors. It's just a bushel of the same old free-market... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 22, 2015 Higher Ed for Bernie The proposal put forth by U.S. senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders for free public higher education has spurred a new initiative called ' Higher Ed for Bernie ' that looks to operate as a kind of movement wing of his campaign, focused on free higher education. Supporters of the effort... Read more |
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Views Saturday, August 29, 2015 Hurricane Katrina and Bernie Sanders: From Neoliberal Disaster to 'Political Revolution' The 10th anniversary of the devastation of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has been an occasion for reflection on that horrific event and the state of the city’s recovery. Much of that commemoration, especially locally, has centered on the theme of resilience . This is... Read more |
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Views Sunday, August 16, 2015 Does Chicago Need a Katrina? A Response. [The following piece is in response to Kristen McQueary's column in the Chicago Tribune on how Chicago could use a Hurricane Katrina.] Kristen McQueary’s attempt to walk back from her scurrilous column of last Thursday extolling the wonderful changes that the devastation of Katrina brought to New... Read more |
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Views Monday, June 15, 2015 From Jenner to Dolezal: One Trans Good, the Other Not So Much By far the most intellectually and politically interesting thing about the recent "exposé" of Spokane, WA, NAACP activist Rachel Dolezal’s racial status is the conundrum it has posed for racial identitarians who are also committed to defense of transgender identity. The comparisons between Dolezal... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, December 09, 2009 Liberals, I Do Despise First Published in The Village Voice, Nov. 12, 1996 After years of crafting and rationalizing Bill Clinton's version of the attack on poor people, high-ranking Department of Health and Human Services officials May Jo Bane and Peter Edelman resigned recently, several weeks after the president signed... Read more |
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Views Thursday, November 15, 2007 Sitting Out This Round of Candidate Charades OK, here we are again, a year out from a Presidential election, and we're all supposed to be figuring out which of the Democrats has the best chance to win-determined mainly by the standard of raising the most money-and subordinating all our substantive political concerns to the objective of... Read more |