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Nov 5, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Alex Rossen |Adam Brown |Henry M.J. Tonks |Achilles Kallergis
Vector Illustration (2008) | Elisanth / ShutterstockFor the past year, political commentators from all sectors of the American political spectrum have remarked on the impending enormity of the 2024 US presidential election. I am here not to join them but to offer a token of wellbeing. This week, Public Seminar’s editorial team is turning to music for escape, rejuvenation, and for truth.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Adam Brown |Henry M.J. Tonks |Achilles Kallergis |Jochen Schmon
Donald McDonald | Chris Piascik / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0A #1 with a large fry, made and served by the forty-fifth president of the United States: Donald Trump was working a drive-through at a McDonald’s last weekend in Pennsylvania.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Jochen Schmon |Henry M.J. Tonks |Jeffrey C. Isaac |John Stoehr
Minnesota State Patrol Troopers on Scene of George Floyd Protest (2020) | Creative Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0Editorial note: The following essay was originally published, in a slightly different version, in edition 708 of the German monthly magazine, analyse & kritik.
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Nov 1, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Jochen Schmon |Henry M.J. Tonks |Jeffrey C. Isaac |John Stoehr
Minnesota State Patrol Troopers on Scene of George Floyd Protest (2020) | Creative Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0Editorial note: The following essay was originally published, in a slightly different version, in edition 708 of the German monthly magazine, analyse & kritik.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Jeremy Robson |Leah Zamore |Henry M.J. Tonks |Teresa Ghilarducci
Joint US-Honduras military field training exercise Ahuas Tara II (May 22, 1984) | Public DomainAs US border policy grows ever more restrictive, the Biden-Harris administration’s “Addressing the Root Causes of Migration in Central America” strategy is commendable for aiming to tackle the inhumane conditions in Central America that are causing so many people in the region to uproot in the first place.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Connor Smith |Achilles Kallergis |Henry M.J. Tonks |Vasiliki Malouchou Kanellopoulou
Opening Ballot Boxes (circa 1915) | Bain News Service via The Library of CongressEven as Republican politicians continue to undermine faith in the U.S. electoral system by erroneously claiming the 2024 election will be “stolen” by undocumented immigrants, the New York Court of Appeals is quietly considering a law that would expand the right to vote in local elections to certain residents of New York City, regardless of US citizenship status.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Emmanuel Guerisoli |Jeffrey C. Isaac |Heather Richardson |Henry M.J. Tonks
Immigrants entering New York City disembark the S. S. Imperator (1913) | Bain News Service / No known restrictionsOn the campaign trail in 2016, Donald Trump promised retribution for the San Bernardino Isis attack in December 2015: he would enact a ban prohibiting the entry of Muslims into the country. It was, unfortunately, one of the campaign promises he made good on.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Claire Potter |Jessica Storey-Nagy |Govind Srivastav |Henry M.J. Tonks
Ana Navarro is probably best known for her work on the popular daytime talk show, The View. But she also has serious chops as a Republican political strategist. She served on Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s staff—you may recall that Bush was leveled by Donald J. Trump early in the 2016 Republican primary season—and, as co-chair of the GOP’s National Hispanic Advisory Council Navarro worked with establishment conservatives in her party like Arizona Senator John McCain and Utah Governor Jon Huntsman.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Henry M.J. Tonks |Paloma Velasco |Claire Potter |Julia Sonnevend
Kamala Harris at National Forum on Wages and Working People | Gage Skidmore / CC By-SA 2.0Breaking with the strategic ambiguity of her presidential campaign’s early months, Vice President Kamala Harris served up a clearer distillation of her economic agenda in a speech to the Economic Club of Pittsburgh on September 25. The speech was fêted as Harris’s “pragmatic,” “moderate-friendly” pitch.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
publicseminar.org | Achilles Kallergis |Carl Landauer |Henry M.J. Tonks |T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Homesteader repairing a fence (ca. 1940) | Lee Russell / Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information Collection, Library of CongressHere’s a tip from the US political playbook: if your campaign is struggling, if you don’t have actual policies but “concepts of a plan,” if you secretly or openly wish for the “good ol’ days” when black people did “black jobs,” if you “forgot” to declare the lavish perks from the Turks … just blame it on the immigrant.
