The openMovements series invites leading social scientists to share their research results and perspectives on contemporary social struggles. The openMovements series invites leading social scientists to share their research results and perspectives on contemporary social struggles. We are at the end of a cycle that started in the second XIXth century. During this cycle, including…
Netanyahu leaves in his vehicle after a meeting with Donald Trump at Trump Tower, Sept. 25, 2016, in New York. Evan Vucci AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.Again, the Republican candidate in the US presidential elections lost the popular vote but won the election. Such is a function of the mechanics of the US flavor…
President Donald Trump is expected to sign a highly controversial executive order on religious liberty on Thursday, according to several sources. Indicating that the signing of the order is imminent, Trump invited several religious freedom leaders to the White House on Thursday, which also happens to be the National Day of Prayer. Two senior administration…
A Roma settlment in Kralovsky Chlmec, Slovakia, March 2015. Petr David Josek / Press Association. All rights reserved.On April 1, Slovak Interior Ministry investigators stopped prosecutions in all cases against police officers and announced that there was no torture, no illegal entry into homes and no inappropriate coercion during a notoriously violent police raid in…
Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen recently summed up the economic benefits of widespread child care and paid family leave. Since 1979, she explained in a speech at Brown University, women have brought about most gains in real household income. Making life easier for working moms helps women enter and stay in the workforce…
Chris Carlson/AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.Approximately two years ago in Turkey, there was an odd case in which AKP-allied Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc made a statement declaring that it was indecent for women to laugh in public or, presumably, in mixed company. Naturally, this statement was effectively a call to arms. Women took…
It’s undeniable: Beyoncé is one of the biggest stars in the world. Thanks to the BeyHive, her group of rabidly loyal fans, the singer is able to set the internet on fire with the drop of a single Instagram post. Back in 2013, Bey unleashed a surprise, self-titled visual album that upended the model for…
Mohammed El Raai/AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.In May, 2015, the Cairo Court for Urgent Affairs issued a controversial verdict that effectively banned the activities of Ultras football fan groups, without exception. More stunning, however, was the court’s decision to declare them a “terrorist organization,” a label usually reserved for the most heinous of offenders…
When graphic designer Kate Bingaman-Burt noticed her credit card debt piling up a few years back, she knew exactly what she had to do to get out of this hole she’d dug for herself: draw her statements. To her, this was the ultimate form of punishment (she hated drawing)—and just enough negative reinforcement to pay off her debt quickly. But…
Plaque of The New Colossus poem by Emma Lazarus ("Mother of Exiles") in the museum inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Wikicommons/Melanzane1013. Some rights reserved.Here on the American side of the pond, the news of the Brexit-decision sent me reeling backward to a lament written by the British-American poet W.H. Auden in February,…