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Why Republican Lawmakers Should Ban “The Federalist Papers” from America’s Classrooms
As everyone now knows, since 2021, Republican legislators in several dozen states have banned or attempted to ban consideration of so-called “divisive concepts” regarding race and gender within public university classrooms. Foes of what Pen America rightly labels...
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Interview: Bill Fletcher Jr. on Protests against Racism
Longtime activist and writer Bill Fletcher Jr. speaks to PCIM Director Raza Rumi about the ongoing protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. Fletcher says a variety of pressures exploded into a spontaneous, multiracial uprising rife with demands against not only...
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The Migrating Documentary Cinema of Yi Cui
Augmentation is not defined exclusively by emerging digital media forms, software, and interfaces. Instead, augmentation explores how to generate new processes about how to...
Women’s History Month: Latina Invisibility
March is Women’s History Month. It celebrates women's contributions, struggles, blocked opportunities, and ultimate triumphs. It is also a time for issuing empty promises...
Extractive Industries are Appalachia’s Core Trauma
On Friday, March 24, the Park Center for Independent Media and the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival hosted a roundtable conversation with the goal of unpacking the...
Jobs Drop Latino Life Expectancy
Work is killing Latinos. Loss of life expectancy due to COVID, especially for marginalized groups, has become a common trope in the mainstream media. The reality for Latinos...
AI and the Fears of Being Thrown Away: Reflections on a Classroom Incident in Dallas
The day: Monday, February 27, 2023. The place: A large lecture class in the new Engineering and Computer Science West building at the University of Texas-Dallas. It’s a wide...
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Justice, and Tom Paine’s Unfinished Revolution
Among revolutionary thinkers, Thomas Paine (1737-1809) is one of the most famous. In the current era of robotic automation and artificial intelligence, Paine’s argument for...
Teaching the War in Ukraine
It wasn’t long after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, that I knew I would need to teach a course on it. Six months later, with the war in full force, I launched...
Stirring the Ashes of the Burned-Over District
Some of my maternal ancestors were early settlers in South Butler, New York. My great, great, great grandparents, Zenus and Eliza Stone, came to South Butler at some point...
Picture the Book: A Photo Essay of a Memoir
The first time I drove on Route 13 in Ithaca, New York, after my mother died, I crept along at the 40 mph minimum speed limit. On the gentle descent into town on that...