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A must-read: Eric Reinhart on reclaiming 'politics itself–not as spectacle or identity but as the collective pursuit of the conditions for a full life ‘

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When Power Turns Itself Into a Joke - New Global Politics
How to make politics real again by anchoring it in the material ground of everyday life.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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UNICEF says Israel blocking one million syringes needed to vaccinate Gaza children flip.it/V3voye
UNICEF says Israel blocking one million syringes needed to vaccinate Gaza children
GENEVA - UNICEF said on Tuesday essential items including syringes to vaccinate children and bottles for baby formula are being denied entry into Gaza by Israel, preventing aid agencies from reaching ...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising

Trump’s campaign to quell dissent by deploying the American military to U.S. cities comes at an immense price

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Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising
Trump’s campaign to quell dissent by deploying the American military to U.S. cities comes at an immense price.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Trump Troop Deployment in U.S. Climbs to 35,000 Boots on the Ground

A federal judge found the deployment to LA violated bedrock constitutional law, but Trump’s domestic military campaign continues. theintercept.com/2025/09/17/t...
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Tarik Cyril Amar on the impact that forced mobilization is having on Ukrainian politics and society, deepening divisions between civilians and the military--and between officials and the ordinary men hunted by brutal conscription gangs.
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The Nation and Busification - New Global Politics
Forced military conscription in Ukraine is exposing and exacerbating deep social divisions, which have gotten worse under a government combining neoliberal dogma, energetic authoritarian tendencies, a...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Keeping America safe! 💪🇺🇸
Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Eric Reinhart on the ‘Democratic Party and its “fear of breakdown“: We aren’t on the edge of democracy’s demise; it’s already lost. Confronting this reality is essential for meaningfully opposing fascism.’

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Neither Culture Wars nor Big Tents Will Save American Democracy - New Global Politics
Centrists call for a kinder, more connected liberal culture. But without building public systems that allow people to actually care for one another, civility is just polite sentiment to cover over the...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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In thinking of our technocratic age as unprecedented, we mistake its mutation for newness.

Aishwary Kumar and Payal Puri on recovering democracy from tech oligarchy.

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T | TECHNOCRACY - New Global Politics
How to recover democracy from the tech oligarchs.
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July 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Gaza and the Ghosts of Leningrad: The Return of Starvation Politics

The Germans intentionally orchestrated a horrific famine in Leningrad during the Second World War. The Israeli siege of Gaza is following the same logic.

Robert D. Crews

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Gaza and the Ghosts of Leningrad - New Global Politics
The Germans orchestrated a famine in Leningrad during the Second World War. The Israeli siege of Gaza is following the same logic.
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August 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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The Mass Detention Industrial Complex
Fear, Racism, and Racial Capitalism

David A. Canton
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The Mass Detention Industrial Complex - New Global Politics
This Mass Deportation Industrial Complex is a multibillion dollar industry that exploits fear, racism, and racial capitalism.
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August 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Check out David A. Canton's critique of Bernie's approach to race and his warning to white progressives not to downplay racism in identifying candidates to challenge MAGA.

David A. Canton, Department of History, University of Florida
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Bernie’s Blind Spot - New Global Politics
Systemic racism persists—and is growing under Trump. Sanders and other white progressives must finally develop a race/class analysis to defeat MAGA.
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October 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
“Centrists like Ezra Klein call for a kinder, more connected liberal culture. But without building public systems that allow people to actually care for one another, civility is just polite sentiment to cover over the fact of cruelty.” - Eric Reinhart

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Neither Culture Wars nor Big Tents Will Save American Democracy - New Global Politics
Centrists call for a kinder, more connected liberal culture. But without building public systems that allow people to actually care for one another, civility is just polite sentiment to cover over the...
www.newglobalpolitics.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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For @newglobalpolitics.bsky.social, I spoke with Salvadoran journalist @petizagavarrete.bsky.social about fascism, militarism, and tech-bro gentrification under Nayib Bukele's indefinite state of exception.
‘Little by little, we’re realizing the true scale of human loss in El Salvador’ - New Global Politics
A conversation with Salvadoran journalist Julia Gavarrete on fascism, militarism, and tech-bro gentrification under Nayib Bukele’s indefinite ‘state of exception.’
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October 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Check out David A. Canton's critique of Bernie's approach to race and his warning to white progressives not to downplay racism in identifying candidates to challenge MAGA.

David A. Canton, Department of History, University of Florida
www.newglobalpolitics.org/bernies-blin...
Bernie’s Blind Spot - New Global Politics
Systemic racism persists—and is growing under Trump. Sanders and other white progressives must finally develop a race/class analysis to defeat MAGA.
www.newglobalpolitics.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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I have long ranted re how problematic it is when well-meaning folks in Trump 2 era advocate for a return to "due process" for immigrants when the status quo of the legal system has LONG denied them any semblance of it.

My latest in New Global Politics:

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Immigrants in the U.S. Need More than “Due Process” - New Global Politics
Even before Trump’s deportation scheme laid siege to US immigration law, the system was unfair. True reform must not stop at the restoration of the status quo—but imagine a new system based on actual ...
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August 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
“Even before Trump’s deportation scheme laid siege to immigration law, the system was unfair. True reform must not stop at the restoration of the status quo—but imagine a new system based on actual justice.”
by Heba Gowayed

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Immigrants in the U.S. Need More than “Due Process” - New Global Politics
Even before Trump’s deportation scheme laid siege to US immigration law, the system was unfair. True reform must not stop at the restoration of the status quo—but imagine a new system based on actual ...
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August 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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"Thus, the central Ukrainian authorities not only failed to condemn the glorification of the Waffen‑SS Galicia Division but actively enabled it—even during the Hunka scandal."
August 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
The Mass Detention Industrial Complex
Fear, Racism, and Racial Capitalism

David A. Canton
www.newglobalpolitics.org/the-mass-det...
The Mass Detention Industrial Complex - New Global Politics
This Mass Deportation Industrial Complex is a multibillion dollar industry that exploits fear, racism, and racial capitalism.
www.newglobalpolitics.org
August 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Gaza and the Ghosts of Leningrad: The Return of Starvation Politics

The Germans intentionally orchestrated a horrific famine in Leningrad during the Second World War. The Israeli siege of Gaza is following the same logic.

Robert D. Crews

www.newglobalpolitics.org/gaza-and-gho...
Gaza and the Ghosts of Leningrad - New Global Politics
The Germans orchestrated a famine in Leningrad during the Second World War. The Israeli siege of Gaza is following the same logic.
www.newglobalpolitics.org
August 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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As the far-right gains ground in Ireland and anti-immigration rhetoric intensifies, who counts as "Irish" in today's Ireland has moved to the center of political debate. Sandrine Ndahiro offers a guide to the state of racism and anti-immigrant politics.

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The Irony of Anti-immigration Rhetoric in Ireland - New Global Politics
Who counts as "Irish" in contemporary Ireland?
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December 7, 2024 at 6:13 PM