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Our new Virtual Special Issue highlights some of our editors' favorite articles published during their editorial terms.

Kathleen Dolan and @ailitripp.bsky.social (2007-2010) highlight work that had an impact on the field at the time and remains relevant today.

#OpenAccess until December 2025!

Opinion | What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal. (Gift Article) It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.

Never thought I would see David Brooks quoting Marx: "we have nothing to lose but our chains"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

Some foreign students fear speaking out as visa cancellations rise International students say they are deleting social media, keeping their views to themselves and staying on campus to avoid being deported.

www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

What utter nonsense!

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NEW ISSUE from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social -

Politics & Gender - Volume 21 - Issue 1 - cup.org/3Yb8U1u

w/ papers by @mlkrook.bsky.social, @klbeckwith.bsky.social, @ailitripp.bsky.social, @erincassese.bsky.social, @amandafriesen.bsky.social, @drorlysiow.bsky.social & more

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Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

WOW! AOC and Bernie Sanders just held the Biggest political event in Denver since Obama 2008.

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.

Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

There is no bar low enough for this administration.

This is truly devastating news, not only for scholars and scientists, but also for the United States as a great power with global influence. Senseless, heartless, cowardly, and stupid.

President of Finland Alexander Stubb speaking in Kyiv today:

▪️ It’s not Russia who decides on EU membership,its the European Union who does that
▪️ It’s not Russia that decides on NATO membership,it’s the alliance itself
▪️ It’s not Russia that decides on what Ukraine has by its border,when,where&how

Julianne Moore says her book about embracing differences was removed from Pentagon-run schools | CNN Oscar winner Julianne Moore claims her children’s book “Freckleface Strawberry” was banned by the Department of Defense’s Education Activity, a global network of 160 schools serving military families.

It’s about having red hair and freckles FFS and how to be cool with that when other kids make fun of it. By that twisted logic, you’d have to ban pretty much every children’s book, old and new www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/e...

Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

🇫🇮🇺🇦 Finnish Prime Minister has called for an urgent EU summit on Ukraine to develop a common position on Europe's role in the negotiations.

🇪🇺 "Only the EU can make decisions on security, Ukraine's membership in the EU or its restoration. For this, there must be a place at the negotiating table."

Because AP continues to refuse to use 'Gulf of America,' it is being barred indefinitely from the Oval Office and Air Force One, but its journalists will be able to retain their credentials to the White House complex, according to Taylor Budowich, White House deputy chief of staff.

Hagan Scotten’s resignation letter says it all.

Dropping the charges against Eric Adams to turn the Mayor of New York into a lackey of the President is a staggeringly corrupt perversion of justice and democracy.

Academic freedom is under assault.

Higher ed organizations sue against Trump’s DEI orders The American Association of University Professors and others argue in a new lawsuit that the executive orders violate the Constitution.

www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

The Path to American Authoritarianism What comes after democratic breakdown.

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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‘My boss was crying.’ NSF confronts potentially massive layoffs and budget cuts Trump could propose slashing agency’s budget by two-thirds

#polisky #WomenInSTEM
NSF looking at losing HALF of their staff and two-thirds of their budget. www.science.org/content/arti...

I am used to reading such proclamations from authoritarian governments in Africa. Hard to believe this is happening in the US.

How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Sam Nujoma battled South Africa and led a freed Namibia – DW – 02/09/2025 Sam Nujoma, a freedom fighter and the founding president of an independent Namibia, has died. He led his country to independence from apartheid South Africa.

www.dw.com/en/sam-nujom...

Former President Sam Nujoma of Namibia, who led the country to independence from South Africa, died today. He was a frequent visitor to our home in Dar es Salaam when SWAPO was based in Tanzania. (L to R, My mother, Marja-Liisa Swantz, Eva, Lea, Nujoma, his associate, and myself).

The Forced Fork and the Choice to Stay Hearing from federal government employees as they make sense of their future

This is heartbreaking but infuriating above all. This madness has to be stopped. Call your representatives!

The Forced Fork and the Choice to Stay open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

State Dept. Fires About 60 Contractors Working on Democracy and Human Rights (Gift Article) The contractors helped enact programs that focus on building up civil society and democratic practices in authoritarian states such as China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba.

Inexplicably cruel and dangerous.
State's programs have done critical work supporting civil society and democratic practices where the US doesn't have missions and formal diplomatic ties, or where relations with auth govts are intense like Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, & Venezuela.

I suspect USAID is first because it's "foreign aid" and fewer Americans will object. But once the precedent is established, expect unilateral dismantling of domestic institutions too

Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.

Goodbye academic freedom! www.nature.com/articles/d41...