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M. A. Iasilli
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Jun 20, 2022

Amber Heard’s Loss is a Blow to Free Speech Rights Everywhere

The jury’s verdict in the contentious Johnny Depp-Amber Heard case reveals that the First Amendment’s freedom of speech protections are subject to prosecutorial ramifications that have the potential to open a litany of lawsuits upon unsuspecting critics and truthtellers. More importantly, it skews decades of historical precedent surrounding free speech…

Amber Heard

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Amber Heard’s Loss is a Blow to Free Speech Rights Everywhere
Amber Heard’s Loss is a Blow to Free Speech Rights Everywhere
Amber Heard

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Nov 19, 2020

How Democrats Move Forward From Here

With the election of Joe Biden to the office of the President, accompanied by the many grassroots organizers around the country succeeding in state and local races, Democrats are uniquely positioned to move forward on a “transitional agenda” that builds America toward a progressive future. As the COVID-19 pandemic appears…

Democrats

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How Democrats Move Forward From Here
How Democrats Move Forward From Here
Democrats

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Jun 27, 2020

Democrats Must Adopt a Foreign Policy of Restraint

In a post-George Floyd America, Democrats must put up a robust anti-war agenda — In a post-George Floyd America, where many are now calling for real Criminal Justice Reform, gun regulations, and community-based investment, Democrats must listen to those who have been victims of police brutality and racism. Beyond a conversation about race, it is also a conversation about unbridled power and the brutality…

BlackLivesMatter

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Democrats Must Adopt a Foreign Policy of Restraint
Democrats Must Adopt a Foreign Policy of Restraint
BlackLivesMatter

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Mar 13, 2019

From “International” Ambitions to “National” Action: How Revolutionary Russia Shaped African Liberation

John Reed’s journalistic testament of the Russian Revolution in the Ten Days That Shook the World promotes a ‘glorified’ picture of the revolution, most classically, as furnishing a global upshot of socialist politics. In the preface, he states, “No matter what one thinks of Bolshevism, it is undeniable that the…

History

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From “International” Ambitions to “National” Action: How Revolutionary Russia Shaped African…
From “International” Ambitions to “National” Action: How Revolutionary Russia Shaped African…
History

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Feb 9, 2019

Towards a Political and Introspective Historiography

In modern academia, the role of the historian takes on many shades of thought and varies in philosophical perspective and practice. Whether the vast differences within the discipline is acceptable or not is to be determined by analyzing what historians define as “history” itself. While many may envisage history as…

Politics

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Towards a Political and Introspective Historiography
Towards a Political and Introspective Historiography
Politics

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Jan 28, 2019

A Meditation on how Americans Lack Social Welfare Awareness.

Paul Krugman’s New York Times article about “Moochers Against Welfare” points to a fundamental problem that has been getting worse in America since the Clinton era: awareness of social welfare policies. After a recent conversation with a friend on Facebook, it demonstrated what Krugman emphasized — a majority of people…

Politics

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Socialists Against Socialism? A Meditation on how Americans Lack Social Welfare Awareness.
Socialists Against Socialism? A Meditation on how Americans Lack Social Welfare Awareness.
Politics

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Jan 27, 2019

Saraya-Jade Bevis, a Pioneer for the Women’s [R]evolution in Wrestling

POP-CULTURE OPINION We all know wrestling is choreographed. But for decades, wrestling has had the power to captivate our minds artistically and expressively. Its prompted fans to aspire to be bold in the things they believe in. The WWE has captured an immense (male) audience for many years displaying a…

WWE

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Saraya-Jade Bevis, a Pioneer for the WWE’s Women’s [R]evolution
Saraya-Jade Bevis, a Pioneer for the WWE’s Women’s [R]evolution
WWE

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Jan 3, 2019

A Left-Wing History of the Republican Party

The Republican Party was once a party of property redistribution, workers, and the liberation of Africans. . . — After reflecting on the materialization of discourse in revolutionary France during 1789, one can’t help but notice the prevalence of radical republicanism. Republican virtue was synonymous with liberty, solidarity, and equality. In bringing such ideas to prominence in government, Maximilien Robespierre once wrote on “Political Morality” professing

Politics

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The Left-Wing History of the Republican Party
The Left-Wing History of the Republican Party
Politics

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Sep 20, 2018

The USSR’s Founding Mother

What Nadezhda Krupskaya can teach us about Labor and Education — Since researching the stages of national development in the Soviet Union, I came across a very interesting trend that places the female subject front-and-center in Soviet political history. Not only do women play a critical role in the Russian Revolution that brought forth the first socialist experiment in world history…

History

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The USSR’s Founding Mother
The USSR’s Founding Mother
History

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Dec 6, 2017

Rey: Why Not a Palpatine?

POP-CULTURE OPINION Think about it. Let it simmer in your mind a little. Search your feelings, “you know it to be true. . .” At least it makes for a good story. It even fits well with the recent trilogy’s notion suggesting that the force is reemerging, awakening, and that…

Star Wars

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Rey: Why Not a Palpatine?
Rey: Why Not a Palpatine?
Star Wars

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