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Analyses

For decades, Latin America’s authoritarian regimes were seen as a right-wing phenomenon, with Cuba as the lone exception — a dictatorship born not from a betrayal of democracy, but of revolution. As Washington’s embargo returns to the headlines, this piece asks what that framing has long obscured: that Cuba has never had just one embargo, but two.

Human Rights, Migrations, Society, Sociology
Islamic Radicalisation in Prison
Volunteers at Work in Turin
Diletta Bernardinelli 27 January 2017

Perhaps not everyone knows that in Italy, in spite of an impelling need to regulate the traditions and customs of Islam, which counts has about 1.4 million followers in Italy
Philosophy, Political Theory
The Legacy of Tony Atkinson
Great Analyst of Inequality
Mattia Baglieri 26 January 2017

Tony Atkinson died in Oxford, England where he taught political economy and served as chairman of the International Economic Association.
Philosophy, Society, Sociology
Zygmunt Bauman, the Narrative
of the Second Modernity
Giancarlo Bosetti 24 January 2017

He was the narrative voice of the “second modernity”, the one unmoored from its “solid” foundations and no longer tethered to mass heavy industry, a voice that was always in search of a revenge against extreme inequity and blind consumerism.
International Affairs
The Donald and the Supreme Court
Next Judge’s Crucial Test
Silvia Falcetta 19 January 2017

On Friday 20th January, Donald Trump will be officially sworn in as the 45th president of the USA: after taking the Oath of Office and offering his first inaugural address, Trump will begin his mandate.
Human Rights, International Affairs, Migrations
The Long Journey to Greece:
the Tragedy of Unaccompanied Refugee Children
Azzurra Meringolo 18 January 2017

Kusai only talks about returning home to Syria. Navigating the Islamist checkpoints and shoot-to-kill Turkish border guards to reach the destroyed city of Aleppo is preferable to waiting for the border to open.
Gender, Society
Hillary’s Defeat: How did We not See this Coming?
Sebastiano Di Robilant 16 January 2017

The days immediately before Election Day were hectic. I was working on the campaign for Hillary Clinton in Broward, a blue county just north of Miami-Dade.
Political Theory, Society, Sociology
Now What is the Duty of the American Left?
Michael Walzer 16 January 2017

Nothing like the title “The Historical Task of the Left in the Present Period” has ever appeared in Dissent.
Dialogues, International Affairs, Society
Roman Herzog’s Death: the Loss of a Great Man of Dialogue
MP 16 January 2017

Roman Herzog, former President of the Federal Republic of Germany, died on January 10th, 2017. A member of the Christian-Democratic Union party (CDU), Herzog was the first president elected after German reunification in 1990.
Philosophy, Political Theory, Society, Sociology
The Strongmen and the Anxious Class
Zygmunt Bauman 10 January 2017

A spectre is haunting the lands of democracy: the spectre of Strongman (or Woman).
Donald’s masculinity.
It’s all about the sex of the state
Roger Friedland 18 November 2016

This election was about the sex of state. In the eyes of millions of his supporters, particularly the men who made him President, America’s manhood is at stake. Donald Trump ran as an erect phallus, a sexually aggressive man who can break through the forms, crush our enemies and make the American body politic strong once again.Trump did not run on a policy platform. People voted for his dick. Never before has a candidate for the American Presidency defended his penis size, let alone a prime-time debate, assuring us that his small hands do not mean anything else is small. “I guarantee you, there’s no problem. I guarantee you,” he shot back at a primary debate. One of the rally posters for Trump now circulating proudly exhorts: “Don’t’ be a pussy! Vote Trump.”