What social safety net does is provide a glimmer of hope for what a democratic socialist society might look like. It makes the claim that without soc….

The historical legacies of resistance to racism, militarism, privatization and panoptical surveillance have long been forgotten and made invisible in….

What many commentators have missed in the ongoing attack on Edward Snowden is not that he uncovered information that made clear how corrupt and intru….

I mean, think of Flint. I mean, think of the lead poisoning of thousands of poor and black children across the United States..

As modern society is formed against the backdrop of a permanent war zone, a carceral state and hyper-militarism, the social stature of the military a….

Youth are becoming the site of society's nightmares..

Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as a pu….

Violence comes in many forms and can be particularly disturbing when confronted in an educational setting if handled dismissively or in ways that bla….

The structures of neoliberal modernity do more than disinvest in young people and commodify them, they also transform the protected space of childhoo….

The generation of youth in the early 21st century has no way of grasping if they will ever be free from the gnawing sense of the transience, indefini….

Young black men in America have an identity ascribed to them that is a direct legacy of slavery..

I think the other side of this is in this balance between the social state and the punishing state, remember, the social state has been decimated. An….

The fight for education and justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic equality, human dignity and security, and the challenge of developi….

Under the notion that unregulated market-driven values and relations should shape every domain of human life, the business model of governance has ev….

Given that by age 23, almost a third of Americans are arrested for a crime, it becomes clear that in the new militarized state young people, especial….

You live in a country that's marked by celebrity culture, you know, that basically infantilizes people, paralyzes them, eliminates all notions of civ….

There is more to the culture of cruelty than simply ethically challenged policies that benefit the rich and punish the poor, particularly children, t….

The challenges that young people are mobilizing against oppressive societies all over the globe are being met with a state-sponsored violence that is….

The United States has become addicted to violence, and this dependency is fueled increasingly by its willingness to wage war at home and abroad. War ….

Today's neoliberalism has a number of byproducts. We have massive forms of inequality developing because there are no longer any concessions. There's….

Neoliberal ideology is enormously powerful..