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The first time Cat Brooks sought help from the police to deal with her violent husband was also the last. She was a 19-year-old college student, married to a man 10 years her senior. One night, after beating her severely, her husband called the police to their Las...

By Martha Ackelsberg, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government, emerita, Smith College I have been thinking a lot, recently, about the tension between demanding “individual rights” – in the sense of deciding whether or not to wear a mask – and calling for more...

By Nilufar Ahmed, Lecturer in Social Sciences, University of Bristol From birthdays to weddings and graduations, this year has seen many personal celebrations cancelled, while communal festivities such as Bonfire Night, Eid and Diwali either have not been celebrated...

Wisconsinites turning to comforting family traditions during the holiday season have been warned by state health department to avoid one in particular: cannibal sandwiches. The sandwiches – also known as “tiger meat” and, for the fancier-minded – “steak...

“Ok, Republicans. If you want to talk about an election being rigged, let’s talk about it. You gerrymandered all of the red states, you suppressed the vote, you closed polling places, you removed drop boxes, you vilified mail-in voting, you disrupted the...

By Peter C. Mancall, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences When the winter cold settles in across the United States, that is usually when the alleged “War on Christmas” begins to heat up. In recent years,...

Capitalism is not, as its defenders like to claim, defined by “free” or “private” enterprises. Likewise, “free” or “unregulated” markets do not define capitalism. Politics and ideology drive its defenders to choose those definitions over clearly better, different...

By Jonathan Obert, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Amherst College The movement called “antifa” gets its name from a short form of “anti-fascist,” which is about the only thing its members agree on. President Donald Trump and some far-right activists and...

A new report draws a “devastating” picture of press freedoms in the United States, finding that 2020 has seen a 1200% increase in the number of journalists arrested compared to 2019. According to Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), there were 117...

By Michael J. Socolow, Associate Professor, Communication and Journalism, University of Maine If you hav not heard of Substack – you probably will soon. Since 2017, the platform has provided aspiring web pundits with a one-stop service for distributing their work and...