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What Have We Done to Each Other?

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In the time of COVID, we are all married to each other. But some of our spouses are sociopaths.

Alex Sayf Cummings November 22, 2020 class, coronavirus, film, gender, prisons, religion

So Bright and Clear and Pale in the Afternoon

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An eviction, a SCOTUS vacancy, and a death in the family. How do we keep our feet on the ground to do what has to be done?

Alex Sayf Cummings September 27, 2020 Aneurysms, Best of, politics

How a Film Flop from 1991 Explains 2020

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Until the End of the World, Wim Wenders’s doomed epic, was shockingly prescient about America’s equally doomed 21st century.

Jason Tebbe August 21, 2020 1990s, dog days classics, film, media studies, technology

A Year of Snow Days

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After the Lost Weekend of Spring 2020, American teachers, students, and parents look ahead to a period of prolonged and agonizing uncertainty.

Alex Sayf Cummings August 10, 2020 Aneurysms, Best of, coronavirus, Education, the South

Defund the NCAA: The Potential Role of Athletic Activism in Reforming College Sports

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College athletes could accomplish decades worth of activism in far less time because the NCAA has never been more vulnerable than it is at this moment in history.

Guest August 4, 2020 college sports, coronavirus, labor, politics, sports

The NCAA Should Cancel the Football Season

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A disaster looms as the college sports association looks to cash in once again.

Zack Furness July 10, 2020 college sports, coronavirus, politics, sports, Uncategorized

Dispatches from Fresno, 1918-19: Following the ‘Spanish’ Flu Pandemic in Real Time, Part XV

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As Fresno entered the final week of 1918, the second wave of the influenza outbreak showed no signs of breaking.

Ethan J. Kytle July 10, 2020 California, coronavirus, Dispatches from Fresno, Fresno, public history

Triggers and Vulnerabilities: Why California Prisons Are So Vulnerable to COVID-19, and What to Do About It

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Good intentions and short-sighted thinking have turned prison reform in California into a COVID catastrophe, argues legal scholar Hadar Aviram.

Guest July 3, 2020 California, coronavirus, crime, law, prisons

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