Sandy Baum and Michael McPherson recently published a book, Can College Level The Playing Field?: Higher Education in an Unequal Society, which I’d recommend to anyone who wants to understand the structural position of higher education in the US. Spoiler alert here: Their answer is “No”. Most of the book is taken up with explaining […]
US Politics
Matthew Gwyther looks at the public's contradictory ideas of leadership and how women are (on the whole) confounding them
Two and a half years ago, the Columbia Journalism Review refused to publish Duncan Campbell’s investigation into The Nation magazine and its apparent support for Vladimir Putin. It is published here in full
A script read out at the start of every Proud Boys gathering reveals the paradoxes of being a woman in the far-right, and the misogyny inherent in nationalism. Sian Norris reports
Wagner Crimes: How the UK can Take the Lead on Stopping Putin’s Mercenaries
UK-US relations would be harmed by the details of Johnson’s summit with the now-disgraced data firm, an independent regulator has concluded
Christopher Steele is concerned his dossier on Donald Trump’s Russian connections was held up at the FBI Office whose head of Counter Intelligence has been indicted for working with one of Putin’s most powerful oligarchs
The Economic Policy Institute details how "abortion restrictions constitute an additional piece in a sustained project of economic subjugation."
The post Abortion Bans Are Part of GOP Plan to Disempower Working Class: Analysis appeared first on scheerpost.com.
Anthony Barnett explores what he sees as the global emergence of a radical, progressive politics – especially in the United States
The links between Brazil's far-right leaders and the US Stop The Steal activists suggest a globally-connected movement determined to attack democracy, reports Sian Norris