Activism

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  December 30, 2015

  The Year When Students of Color Put Campuses on Notice

  Administrators’ vague rhetoric about diversity and inclusion won’t end a growing movement to make universities reimagine themselves.

  Jailyn Gladney

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  December 29, 2015

  Who’s Fighting the Mental-Health Crisis on Campus? Unions.

  Grant Mao wanted to get back on track. Yale wanted to get rid of him.

  Michelle Chen

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  December 28, 2015

  Adjuncts at Loyola University Chicago Want a Union. Will the Jesuit University Respect Their Demands?

  Over the past 10 years, the proportion of adjunct and contingent faculty at Loyola has tripled—as tuition has ballooned.

  Michelle Chen

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  December 28, 2015

  December 28, 1973: Alexsander Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Gulag Archipelago’ is Published

  “The duty is not only to memorialize the fallen, it is also to confront the living.”

  Richard Kreitner

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  December 23, 2015

  Start Making Sense: The Best of the Left in 2015

  The Nation’s Progressive Honor Roll: John Nichols names names. Plus Amy Wilentz on guns and Jay Parini on Gore Vidal.

  Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

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  December 22, 2015

  When Your 3-Year-Old Son Asks, ‘Are They Going to Kill Me?’

  We shouldn’t have to explain lockdown drills to preschoolers.

  Frida Berrigan

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  December 22, 2015

  December 22, 2010: President Obama Repeals ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

  “This disastrous policy was born out of Bill Clinton’s refusal to honor his 1992 campaign pledge to let gays serve openly in uniform.”

  Richard Kreitner

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  December 18, 2015

  China’s Latest Crackdown on Workers Is Unprecedented

  Seven worker-activists involved in the independent labor organizations known as “worker centers” have been arrested.

  Michelle Chen

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  December 17, 2015

  Rajon Rondo, Gay-Bashing, and the Beautiful Response to an Ugly Hate Crime

  How one NBA referee took a hate crime against his sexuality and turned it on its head.

  Dave Zirin

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  December 17, 2015

  What I Learned This Semester at Yale

  Students of color are not separatists practicing identity politics—they are fed up with false histories and a false present.

  Daniel Judt