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Dec 5, 2024 | 
dissentmagazine.org | Suzanne Kahn |Alyssa Battistoni |Tressie McMillan Cottom |Aziz Rana
A Man’s Economy
The parts of the Biden agenda most targeted at addressing women’s economic vulnerabilities were never passed.
▪ December 5, 2024
Election night in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where I live, was unseasonably warm, so I “slept” with my windows open. As a result, I came to understand what was happening to the country when I started to hear a fraternity set off fireworks every time another state was called for Donald Trump.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
dissentmagazine.org | Alyssa Battistoni |Tressie McMillan Cottom |Aziz Rana |Timothy Shenk
A Fractured Coalition
A roundtable on the 2024 election.
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This conversation took place on November 14, 2024. It has been condensed and edited for clarity. Patrick Iber: Let’s start where AOC started a few days after the election. On Instagram, she asked people who had voted both for her and for Donald Trump to explain themselves. The answers were various. Some people mentioned Gaza.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
dissentmagazine.org | Michael Kazin |Andrew Elrod |Aziz Rana |Mark Engler
The Decline of Union Hall Politics To become a party based among workers again, Democrats must remember that partisan commitment often grows from local roots. ▪ Fall 2024 Everybody knows most white working people no longer vote for Democrats, but there’s no agreement why. Leftists blame neoliberals for enacting policies that deregulated business instead of redistributing wealth.
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May 30, 2024 | 
bostonreview.net | Aziz Rana
The word “decolonization,” in much mainstream American commentary, is treated as an unproductive and blunt slogan: a way of reducing a nuanced history—be it in the United States or in Israel/Palestine—to a zero-sum and violent fight over who has power. “To talk of dismantling an American settler state of 330 million people is to take a rhetorical flight of fancy,” writes Michael Powell in the Atlantic.
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May 9, 2024 | 
lpeproject.org | David Pozen |Aziz Rana
This post is part of a symposium on Aziz Rana’s The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them. Read the rest of the posts here. ***Aziz Rana’s The Constitutional Bind upends the standard story of constitutional veneration in not one but two ways. Against the notion that “Americans have treated the United States Constitution . . .
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
estadao.com.br | Aziz Rana
Na quinta-feira, a Suprema Corte reuniu-se para discutir seDonald Trump desfruta de imunidade jurídica por tentar reverter o resultado da eleição de 2020, quando era presidente. Mesmo se os ministros eventualmente decidirem contra ele, os progressistas não deveriam celebrar a Constituição enquanto o melhor bastião contra Trump.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Aziz Rana
On Thursday, the Supreme Court gathered to consider whether Donald Trump, as president, enjoyed immunity from prosecution for attempting to overturn the 2020 election. Even if the justices eventually rule against him, liberals should not celebrate the Constitution as our best bulwark against Mr. Trump. In fact, the document - for reasons that go beyond Mr. Trump, that long preceded him and could well extend past him - has made our democracy almost unworkable.
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Mar 31, 2024 | 
press.uchicago.edu | Aziz Rana
An eye-opening account of how Americans came to revere the Constitution and what this reverence has meant domestically and around the world. Some Americans today worry that the Federal Constitution is ill-equipped to respond to mounting democratic threats and may even exacerbate the worst features of American politics.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
bostonreview.net | Leah Hunt-Hendrix |Astra Taylor |Aziz Rana
Last Wednesday, in an event hosted by Harvard Book Store and sponsored by Boston Review, veteran organizers Astra Taylor (co-founder of the Debt Collective) and Leah Hunt-Hendrix (co-founder of Solidaire) talked with Aziz Rana about their new book, Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea. In the face of reactionary, far-right solidarities being built up around the world, Hunt-Hendrix and Taylor argue that we need a conception of solidarity fit to challenge them.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
bostonreview.net | Aziz Rana |Jefferson R. Cowie
Jefferson Cowie, Vanderbilt University historian and author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Freedom’s Dominion (2022), recently sat down with Boston College legal scholar Aziz Rana to discuss his argument in Boston Review’s recent forum, “A Different Freedom.” In his essay, Rana sketches the path to a different politics of freedom—one that captures the meaning associated with a long line of liberation struggles to which the left has been historically committed.
