Few words in contemporary French politics hold the same political and symbolic weight that banlieue does. Translated to “suburb” in English, the term has become one of the most politically charged concepts in modern French vocabulary. Characterized by vast concrete housing projects, towering apartment blocks, and isolated urban planning, the French banlieues are presented in […]
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The Democratic Party is Untenable
The United States stands at the precipice of so many crises that I cannot hope to list them all here. We seem intent to drive straight off the cliff of imminent climate catastrophe. Our healthcare and education systems balloon in costs, run by and for profit-seeking middlemen rather than the interests of the people that […]
The Elusive Lesson of Birmingham
In a CNN opinion piece, Democrats, Please Learn from Birmingham, Bakari Seller argues that engaging black voters rather than white working-class voters should be the Democratic party’s main strategy in the upcoming elections. Seller backs his argument with the Alabama Senate 2017 election between Roy Moore and Doug Jones, which demonstrated the power of black voter […]