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Tocqueville in China

May 22, 2013 · Online Articles

One of the most vibrant intellectual discussions in China this year, and one of the CCP’s cheapest propaganda campaigns, began with a tweet on Weibo, China’s premier micro-blogging service and anointed online town square. {…}

By Rebecca Liao
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The Costs of China’s Mega-Cities

May 20, 2013 · Online Articles

In 2012 the Chinese government announced that for the first time in history, more people lived in its cities than in the countryside. It’s the result of an urbanization campaign that the country’s leadership has promoted, with spectacular results. {…}

By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham
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The Pollution Crisis and Environmental Activism in China: A Q&A with Ralph Litzinger

May 15, 2013 · Online Articles

The last year has seen a dramatic uptick in press coverage of Chinese environmental issues. There have also been a number of books published on the subject, with more due out soon. So this seemed a good moment to get in touch with Ralph Litzinger, an anthropologist based at Duke University. {…}

By Jeffrey Wasserstrom
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Ghosts of Party Past: New York’s Last Two Democratic Mayors and the 2013 Election

May 2, 2013 · Online Articles

There is much to be learned from the lives and times of Ed Koch and David Dinkins, New York’s last two Democratic mayors. Their New York may not be as far away as it feels at the center of a thoroughly sanitized Times Square. {…}

By Nick Juravich
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Low Wage Workers Strike—Because YOLO

April 26, 2013 · Online Articles

For low-wage workers, it’s almost insanely risky to strike. This Wednesday, they went on strike in Chicago. Why? YOLO. {…}

By Micah Uetricht
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Invisible Immigrants: What Will Immigration Reform Mean for Migrant Women?

April 24, 2013 · Online Articles

Patricia thought she had crossed the border to a land where she could finally earn a good living. She ended up in one of the worst places to be a woman. As a migrant farmworker, she was brutalized and raped … {…}

By Michelle Chen
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The Lost City of Solidarity

April 17, 2013 · Online Articles

Organized labor in the United States has always been an urban institution. But new estimates of union density in American metropolitan settings show that relationship unraveling. {…}

By Colin Gordon
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Photo Essay: Consuming China

April 10, 2013 · Online Articles

Despite being the “world’s manufacturer,” China has been moving toward a consumption-led economy. In this photo essay, Tong Lam looks at the consumer products and information that saturate everyday life in China. {…}

By Tong Lam
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WikiLeaks and the 2014 Sochi Olympics

April 7, 2013 · Online Articles

Precisely ten months from today, the 2014 Winter Olympics will open in Sochi, Russia. This weekend also marks the three-year anniversary of one of WikiLeaks’s most controversial interventions: the release of a video documenting American troops in Apache helicopters gunning … {…}

By Jules Boykoff
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Feminism’s Tipping Point: Who Wins from Leaning in?

March 26, 2013 · Online Articles

In her time at Facebook, Losse saw the ideas behind Lean In take root. The book’s goals become legible when understood to be as informed by Silicon Valley business tactics as by feminism. What exactly are we leaning into? {…}

By Kate Losse
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