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Aili Mari Tripp
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Vilas Research Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Scholar of gender and politics, comparative politics, and African politics. Weaver, rower, and amateur horticulturalist. https://ailitripp.com
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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!
September 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Never thought I would see David Brooks quoting Marx: "we have nothing to lose but our chains"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
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.
www.nytimes.com
April 18, 2025 at 2:51 AM
What utter nonsense!
April 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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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
March 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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WOW! AOC and Bernie Sanders just held the Biggest political event in Denver since Obama 2008.
March 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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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. 🧵
February 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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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.
Since the 1950s, Summer Language Workshops at Indiana University have provided training in Russian, East European, and Central Asian languages. Generations have come to Bloomington to study Romanian, Polish, Kazakh, etc.

Rubio just cancelled all of them
languageworkshop.indiana.edu/summer-langu...
Title VIII: Funding: Summer Language Workshop: Language Workshop: Indiana University Bloomington
Title VIII Fellowships
languageworkshop.indiana.edu
February 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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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
February 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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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...
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.
www.cnn.com
February 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.
February 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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🇫🇮🇺🇦 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."
February 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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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.
February 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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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.
February 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Academic freedom is under assault.
February 14, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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#polisky #WomenInSTEM
NSF looking at losing HALF of their staff and two-thirds of their budget. www.science.org/content/arti...
‘My boss was crying.’ NSF confronts potentially massive layoffs and budget cuts
Trump could propose slashing agency’s budget by two-thirds
www.science.org
February 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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February 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I am used to reading such proclamations from authoritarian governments in Africa. Hard to believe this is happening in the US.
February 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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).
February 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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...
The Forced Fork and the Choice to Stay
Hearing from federal government employees as they make sense of their future
open.substack.com
February 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM