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Category Archive: Policy history

How Do We Remember Margaret Thatcher? ‘The Crown,’ Nursery Education, and the Iron Lady

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Like it or not, the Iron Lady was more complicated than we tend to think.

Anna Danziger Halperin December 11, 2020 Britain, Education, feminism, gender, Policy history, teaching

How a Bad Bill Becomes a Bad Law: A Convoluted Process of Good Intentions and Terrible Results

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Kate is the projected valedictorian, and will graduate as #1 in her class, with a 4.0 GPA. Before […]

Sharon Murchie November 23, 2020 Education, law, Michigan, Policy history, politics, teaching

Rethinking the Creative City with Julian Chambliss

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While working on Brain Magnet, I got the chance to sit down for a chat with Michigan State […]

Alex Sayf Cummings March 27, 2020 Brain Magnet, class, interviews, planning, podcasts, Policy history, Urban History, urban studies

The Allure of Small Things: Daniel Immerwahr on America’s Love Affair with Community Development

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What do the CIA and Gandhi have in common? Both were advocates of what historian Daniel Immerwahr calls “community development.”

Eric Michael Rhodes December 10, 2018 Asia, book reviews, Cold War, foreign policy, globalization, planning, Policy history, South Asia

Telling the Story of Healthcare Reform (Again)

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The Affordable Care Act was passed a mere few months after Tropics of Meta started, in early 2010.  […]

Alex Sayf Cummings July 28, 2017 conservatism, healthcare, Policy history, politics, the Left

Beyond “Point-of-Production” Organizing: The Radical Potential of Building the Solidarity Economy

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Participatory budgeting (PB) and workers cooperatives–two pillars of the solidarity economy–offer some of the best tools for building […]

Sean Keith July 26, 2017 anarchism, inequality, Marxism, Neoliberalism, Policy history, politics, radical politics, the Left

Privatizing the All Volunteer Army: Gender and Families in the 1990s and Early Aughts

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[Editor’s note: This is the final installment in ToM’s three part series on social welfare policies in the […]

Ryan Reft February 1, 2016 1980s, 1990s, Housing, military history, Policy history, Uncategorized

Transforming the Military Amidst Austerity: The 1970s and the All Volunteer Army in Jennifer Mittelstadt’s The Rise of the Military Welfare State (Part I)

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In 1974, in the wake of the nation’s retreat from Vietnam and the institution of the all volunteer […]

Ryan Reft January 27, 2016 1970s, 1980s, military history, Policy history, politics, Uncategorized
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