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When Homeland Security goes to school
BY NICOLE NGUYEN Assistant professor of social foundations of education at the University of Illinois-Chicago In 2015, the FBI launched the controve ...
Occupy Surplus-Value: Toward the Revaluation of Value
BY BRIAN MASSUMI It is hard not to despair. The enormity of the problems dwarf the human scale, even though it is we, humans, who have created them. ...
Outsider Theory, Ruggles of Red Gap, and unforgetting: On the unfinished, ongoing work of political and intellectual struggle.
JONATHAN P. EBURNE Pennsylvania State University When I was in graduate school, an acquaintance of mine introduced me to a movie called Ruggles of ...
Linda LeGarde Grover: On resilience and loss.
BY LINDA LeGARDE GROVER The story began for me when I was a child, too young to question but old enough to see, hear, and remember. Adults conversin ...
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What are the implications of philanthropic relationships in education?
BY AMY BROWN University of Pennsylvania On a spring day in 2010, I interviewed Sebastian Thomas, head of the in-house nonprofit organization at the ...
On Climate Change War Games and "environmentality."
The military's seizure of climate change and other environmental issues is not as radically new as one might suppose. Image via Creative Commons. ...
Christmas Trees + Beatrice Ojakangas's Pulla People holiday recipe.
BY BEATRICE OJAKANGAS Excerpted from Homemade The Christmas season for us was marked by the beginning of Christmas tree season in October. Isä ...
Going Underground: Jim Walsh on his earliest memory of music writing.
BY JIM WALSH Excerpt from the Introduction to Bar Yarns and Manic-Depressive Mixtapes My earliest memory of scribbling in a notebook while listening ...
Wendell Anderson and the Minnesota Miracle: A look back.
Learning from a major bipartisan effort orchestrated in 1971 by Minnesota governor Wendell Anderson and joined by Rep. Martin Sabo and Sen. Stanley ...