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The Irony of MLK Day 2013: A Renewed Invitation into White Supremacy

January 21, 2013

I wonder how many consider today to be a magnificent symbolic coincidence rather than a Manichean irony: today, we commemorate …

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The Deaths of Innocents: How to Understand “Collateral Damage”

December 31, 2012

Today, TransEx guest blogger Robert Prasch weighs in on the moral debate over the ethics of  US-led drone strikes and …

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Election Day 2012: It’s the Day After That Matters

November 5, 2012

Update I below: This past weekend I talked with a philosopher friend about her conundrum over how to vote in …

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Why do “Third Parties Never Work”? Collusion and the Presidential Debates

October 8, 2012

Regardless of what you thought of the first round of 2012 presidential debates, the spin job began well before 8:30 …

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White Privilege, the Dems, and the Rhetoric of “Care”

October 3, 2012

To read some of the exchanges over the last week in the blogosphere, apparently “white privilege” means that one doesn’t …

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Race, Murder, and Mayhem in America: Considering the Links

August 9, 2012

Glenn Greenwald is right to be skeptical of any direct causal links between the horrific events such as the Sikh …

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Guest Post: On Voting Strategically in 2012: The Ultimatum Game

July 30, 2012

Today, I’m putting up another guest post by Robert Prasch, analyzing the “ultimatum” politics of the Democratic Party, more specifically, …

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Election Year Redux

June 1, 2012

When it rains…2 posts on Translation Exercises on the same day! This one, by me, follows on the heels of …

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Guest Column by Marcellus Andrews: “About What is Coming Down the Road”

June 1, 2012

Today’s column is by one of Translation Exercises guest bloggers, Marcellus Andrews, who recently appeared on Up with Chris Hayes …

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Where is Their Refuge in This World?

January 18, 2012

Once they had left their homeland they remained homeless, once they had left their state they became stateless; once they …

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Guest Post: “Where is My Half Glass?”

December 27, 2011

The brilliant Robert E. Prasch, an economist at Middlebury College, reflects on the Obama Presidency. President Obama, Where Is My …

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Voting Model #3: The “Lesser of Two Evils”

December 27, 2011

This one gets trotted out around March of every election year. And around March of election year, I stop reading, …

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Voting Model #2: The “pro-choice/environmentally friendly” vote

December 23, 2011

In this post, I continue down my list of problematic presidential election voting models. Today’s model, #2 on that list, …

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Indefinite detention: Business as usual. What now?

December 17, 2011

Yesterday marked a new low in the history of the lows of the Obama administration. After months of threatening to …

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