In an exploration of Patty Ortiz’s art with DACA migrants to the US, Irina Popescu argues that performance art can encourage empathy and political responsibility.
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Plastics and Fossil Fuels: Follow the History of Technological Systems
What is the history behind the global plastics crisis and what are the solutions? Simon Pirani argues that we need to look at technological systems and social and economic systems in which they are embedded.
Remembering 1968: Children of the New Age at Columbia University
By Nancy Biberman We were an optimistic and righteous generation, many of us conceived and raised by men and women who had survived World War II. My dad was an Army combat vet who fought in the South Pacific and trained GIs on the use of top-secret proximity fuse weaponry. […]
Trump and Fascism. A View from the Past
Fascism is not just the big bang of mass rallies and extreme violence; it is also the creeping fog that incrementally occupies power while obscuring its motives.
Understanding the Obama Presidency Historically
Article by Eli Zaretsky, author of ‘Why America Needs a Left: An Historical Argument’
Memory, History & Activism on the Mexican Border
Article by Luisa Passerini and Lance Thurner