Calling Up the Military to Stop Protests

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            New Orleans       There’s nothing like federal immigration officials doing mass arrest roundups in workplaces, especially in urban America, to get everyone out in the streets.  What Trump and his mad dog aide, Stephen Miller, don’t understand is how embedded immigrants, undocumented and not, are in American communities, workplaces, and families.  These are not …

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Democracy is No Game

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            New Orleans       A political science professor at NYU, Adam Przeworski, has a disturbing theory about democracies, their stability, and their sustainability, which has gained increasing prominence.  If he’s right, and there’s a lot of evidence that he’s got a point, even if he’s a bit off the mark, then none of us can …

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