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Political Economy Seminar

Class, Party, and American Politics in 2024

Speaker: Matthew Karp, Princeton University

Time and date: Friday, 2 August 2024, 4-5:30 pm

Location: A02 Social Sciences Building, Room 650, The University of Sydney

Abstract: It may be the most pervasive question in twenty-first century politics, all across the post-industrial world: Why have so many working-class voters, the backbone of socialist and progressive struggles across the twentieth century, turned away from parties of the left? Everyone from Thomas Piketty to J.D. Vance seems to have weighed in, but the debate rages on. This talk explores the emergence of what some call “class dealignment” in the United States, focusing especially on the last two decades, and evaluating the current shape of both the Republican and Democratic political coalitions. Drawing on my work with the Center for Working Class Politics, I argue that dealignment represents an existential crisis for the American left and suggest some ways left-wing politicians might push back against these macro trends.

From The Guardian Among many other challenges in dealing with the failure of urban policy in Australia, the Minns (NSW state) government is faced with the task of renegotiating, or repudiating, the disastrous set of contracts for toll roads in New South Wales made by its predecessors (Labor and Liberal) with the Transurban group. As […]

Here's a rundown of the Doctor Who schedule for SDCC 2024 - including a look at the immersive booth and the merch available to purchase.

The 17th Annual E.L. ‘Ted’ Wheelwright Lecture

Dollar Hegemony as Law-Making Power, or How the Dollar Shapes the Rules of Global Capitalism

Speaker: Ntina Tzouvala (ANU)

Date and time: Thursday 12 September, doors open 5:30 pm, lecture 6-8 pm

Location: Social Sciences Building A02, Lecture Theatre 200, University of Sydney

Registrations: https://events.humanitix.com/17th-annual-wheelwright-lecture

Lecture abstract

I have just witnessed the most pathetic and humiliating hour which I, as an American, have experienced in my lifetime. After virtually every sentence uttered by the notorious war-criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, no matter how inane or blatantly false, virtually all the attending political prostitutes infesting the U.S. Congress rose (53 times!) in a loud standing Continue reading »

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And it’s going to hurt them Awwww. They have belatedly realized that their piggishness might not be the selling point they thought it was. It’s too late, I’m afraid. We know who they are: That’s very nice, I’m sure. But unless Fox News and the right wing media lay off of it, it’s going to be out there. And it’s going to gross out over half the population. . And they need to have a talk with Donald Trump: Also, respects to our potentially new Democrat Challenger, Laffin’ Kamala Harris. She did poorly in the Democrat Nominating process, starting out at Number Two, and ending up defeated and dropping out, even before getting to Iowa, but that doesn’t mean she’s not a “highly talented” politician! Just ask her Mentor, the Great Willie Brown of San Francisco. I’m sure I don’t have to point out that he has suggested exactly the same thing about NY Attorney General Leticia James and Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis, both of whom are Black women. He’s the one who gives permission for this garbage, not Mike Johnson.

Organizers say attacks from the Israeli prime minister, who faces charges of war crimes, showed the strength of their movement.

The post Netanyahu Insulted and Smeared the Pro-Palestine Protest Movement. Congress Clapped. appeared first on The Intercept.

Councils are struggling to cope with a huge rise in demand while standards in reading, writing, and mathematics have either stagnated or fallen during the past decade

The Government is set to address the potential conflicts of interests around moonlighting MPs, with campaigners believing urgent action is required

Trump’s team is reportedly super loyal to him so this is pretty stupid in any case. They just screwed up on a grand scale. Cheatle resigned which I think is fine since the buck has to stop at the top and it’s clear the Secret Service fell down on the job. But this looney tunes stuff from a member of congress (yes, it’s Marge Greene, one of their most popular members) is unfortunately par for the course.

Low-rating news channel, Sky News Australia, have come out strongly to defend Donald Trump’s pick for Vice-President, JD Vance, after it was revealed in his best-selling book, Hillbilly elegy, that he once violated a couch. ”Let he who has not... Read More ›

THE MILESTONE of 110 years of the Australian Red Cross (ARC) is being celebrated by the Woolgoolga Branch with a birthday party on Tuesday 13 August at the Woolgoolga Seniors Centre from 2pm. Thirty-three years of continuous local service by Woolgoolga Red Cross is also being recognised at the celebrations. Preparations have begun and the...

The post Red Cross Woolgoolga calls former members to join big birthday party appeared first on News Of The Area.

Why academic outcomes resist machine learning.

The post The Unpredictability of Life appeared first on Nautilus.

The best profile of Kamala Harris you will read is by Joan Walsh in the Nation. An excerpt: I heard the rapid staccato click of high heels. Harris walked in, greeted me warmly, and immediately yanked open the curtains. She was not afraid of the heat. She wanted sunshine in here. She is about to get much more sunshine—and heat—than she asked for. A few days after our conversation, President Joe Biden had the worst debate performance of his career and sent the Democratic Party into a crisis over his ability to win the 2024 election against Donald Trump. Pundits and more than a few Democratic leaders clamored for Biden to step aside, as polling showed his path to a second term drying up. On July 21, Biden announced that he was suspending his campaign for president and endorsed Harris as nominee soon after. Prominent Democrats quickly lined up behind her as her work wooing Biden’s delegates began. Harris and I spoke when she was still trying to win a second term for Biden, dispatched to reach voters who were among the most critical to his reelection.