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The Silos of History: Remarks on Romain Gavrasโ€™ Athena

Kieran Aarons

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To be a revolutionary during the first decade of the 20th century meant recognizing that one stood at the beginning of a new strategic era, one marked by the eclipse and exhaustion of a certain Blanquist ...

Socialism or Suburbia

Sudip Bhattacharya

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โ€œPrivilege is provisional,โ€ writes Margo Jefferson in Negroland, part memoir, part history ofย  African Americans like herself who grew up โ€œmiddle class” in Chicago.ย  โ€œPrivilege can be denied, withheld, offered grudgingly and summarily withdrawn […] Keep ...

Above the Cloudline

Jenny Morgan

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Weโ€™re sitting on the front veranda of a small house in the mountains, maybe 90 minutesโ€™ drive from the Colombian city of Bucaramanga, whose beauty queen has just been crowned Miss Colombia. I know this because ...

Are You Ready For Some Football?

James Stephens

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I recently did a track workout at a local park in my city of Newark, NJ. My running partner and I chose Weequahic Park instead of the one in our neighborhood because the slightly farther away ...

Hybrid Moments

Jarrod Shanahan

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On September 17th, 2022, I witnessed something long believed to be impossible: a reunion of โ€œThe Original Misfits,โ€ founder, songwriter, and vocalist Glenn โ€œDanzigโ€ Anzalone, bassist Jerry โ€œOnlyโ€ Caiafa, and guitarist Paul โ€œDoyleโ€ Caiafa. Danzig and ...

โ€œThe Monster is Actually the Policeโ€: A Discussion with Travis Linnemann

Hard Crackers Editors

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We sat down with Travis Linnemann, a professor of sociology at Kansas State University and a distinguished cultural critic, to discuss his provocative research into the supposed meth epidemic and the ongoing humanitarian disaster of policing ...

Roe Overturned

Miriam Pickens

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no mas, no more babysitting in the doctorโ€™s house waiting for infection to clear before the d & c, the abortion. When I woke the nurse say, You punched him, you punched the doctor. After a ...

Abortion Struggles Beyond Voting: Womenโ€™s Liberation, Reproductive Care, and Dual Power

Spencer Beswick

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At recent pro-choice demonstrations, we have been told that the only way to protect abortion is to vote for Democrats in November. Yet the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade under a Democratic president, house, and ...

Demand What You Really Want! An Interview with Jenny Brown

Hard Crackers Editors

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Jenny Brownย is an organizer with the feminist group National Womenโ€™s Liberation.ย She was a leader in the grassroots campaign to make morning-after pill contraception available over the counter in the U.S. and was a plaintiff in the ...

American decline? Imperial reckoning. 40 years of Combat Rock by The Clash

Christian Alexander

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Interrupting all programs, but we’reย putting out this transmissionโ€ฆa review of the 40th anniversaryย reissue of The Clash’s Combat Rock. August 21st is Joe Strummerโ€™s birthday. He would have been seventy years old.ย  He died twenty years ago. ...