Politics

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Afghan Women & that Time cover

Time Magazine is not the first to use women’s rights as a bargaining chip in wars waged on behalf of the U.S. in the Middle East.

August 25th, 2010

Thurgood Marshall a bad role model?

Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) dismissed Elena Kagan because she credited Justice Thurgood Marshall as a role model. Clearly, this indicated that she favored “judicial activism” too highly.

July 20th, 2010

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Direct Lending

SAIC Moves to New Student Loan Initiative. Students will pay lower interested rates on federal student loans, one benefit of The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.

April 29th, 2010

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Left, Right, Left

A Tea Party Rally and an Anti-War demonstration have both descended upon the Loop in recent weeks.

April 29th, 2010

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Norman Finkelstein

The controversial scholar and author who swore he’d never return to Chicago, was back in town on Friday, April 16th, focusing on the issue of Gaza as a human rights violation.

April 29th, 2010

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“The Lost Boys of Sudan” Victory Gardens Theater From March 19-April 25

The Lost Boys meet the American dream in a new Chicago play that relies on stereotype in order to critique it.

April 3rd, 2010

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Stop Blaming. Stop Complaining.

Got problems? Then by all means, heap the blame on the nearest available elected official and wait petulantly until your whims have been catered to.

March 5th, 2010

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Designing Obama

Sol Sender, leader of creative development for the Obama ’08 campaign logo, discusses his creative process

December 8th, 2009

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Pedal Power

The male dominated culture of Critical Mass bike rides prompted a DIY activist movement for mass rides to include GLBTQ bikers and empower female cyclists…

November 29th, 2009

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A Manual for Relief

Art Therapy Department Chair Catherine Moon did not know about Global Alliance for Africa until she received a call from them in 2008. Shortly after, she was on a plane to Tanzania…

October 26th, 2009

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An interview with Allan Sekula

I think what we need to realize is that what we call our location is increasingly shot through with connections to the rest of the world, especially in a globalized economy.

October 2nd, 2009

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Globalization, Globally and Locally

By juxtaposing the subjective and the mundane with the politically charged, Sekula succeeds in asking the visitor, “Where does politics lie?”

October 2nd, 2009

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Glenn Beck: Derrida or Dirtbag?

Batty Fox News talk show host fancies himself an art historian and critic

October 1st, 2009

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SAIC War Vet Joins Chicago’s Vet Art Project

By Brandon Kosters

SAIC undergraduate Matthew Ping, 26, is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan. He is one of many veterans who uses the creative process as a means of coping with his experiences serving overseas.
“When I came to SAIC in January [2009], I was looking for veteran artists. I was hoping to start a [...]

October 1st, 2009

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Hot Air Illinois

2010 Illinois candidates: who are these guys anyway?

August 31st, 2009

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What has Obama done for us lately?

It may be difficult to sift through the heaps of extraneous media coverage to discover Obama’s successes and failures.

August 31st, 2009

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Capitalism vs. Charity

Why I love Capitalism
by Aurélie Beatley
I love capitalism because I’m a soulless consumerist wretch, and I’m not sorry. Actually, I love capitalism because I’m familiar, first-hand, with the soft-core socialism that permeates most of Europe, and that system is idiosyncratic, at best.
See, my grandparents live in a small provincial capital in Southern France called Aurillac, [...]

April 13th, 2009

The Olympic Host: Divergent Visions for Chicago

Will the Chicago Summer Games be revitalizing or parasitic?

March 10th, 2009

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“Becoming Edvard Munch” at the Art Institute of Chicago

“Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety and Myth,” currently on display at the Art Institute of Chicago, takes a radical new approach to the retrospective exhibition in its ingenious curation of artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944).

March 5th, 2009

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Camp Hope: How Not to Organize a Protest

Freezing temperatures and blizzard conditions did not deter the determined group of activists. However, the message may have been lost.

February 8th, 2009
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