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Professor Ruth O'Brien

Academic, Author, Activist, Book Series Editor – Out of Many, One: Obama & the 3rd American Political Tradition – (content reflects freedom of thought)

Professor Ruth O'Brien

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      • Land, Localization of National Politics, or Should I Call the Feds for an Eviction?
      • “Manalyzing” in Stereo by Distinguished Professor David Waldstreicher, team teaching American Political Development 2020
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      • Looking For Wildlife in All the Wrong Places
      • MOOCs – Machines Make Poor Mentors
      • A Higher Education Way to Stop Keeping the Damned Women Out* of TECH Too?
      • (In)Debted — Undergraduate and Graduate Student Debt?
      • Let the 2016 Singing & Dancing Begin
      • Laughing helps the diaphragm too
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    • Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America by Andrei S. Markovits
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      • Laughing helps the diaphragm too
      • Identities and Intersections, and Max Tomba’s Glorious “Insurgent Universalities” in Heretical Thought
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      • Misogyny has No Party
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      • New Civil Rights – Disability Rights, Wars, & the 7% Affirmative Action Solution
      • Outfoxing Bulls & Wolves Protecting Plutocrats
      • Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire – Jeff Bezos’ & J.K. Rowlings’ Communication or Chatter
      • Old Civil Rights (women, persons of color, Native Americans, immigrants)
      • Say it Ain’t So, Joe; or Where’s Hillary ClintonWhen We Need Her?
      • No Photo Zone: Is Portland Cracked?
      • New Rules & Paycheck Reparations
    • Disability
      • New Civil Rights – Disability Rights, Wars, & the 7% Affirmative Action Solution
      • Disability Disaster Debacle (Enforcing Reform)
      • Sour Grapes
      • We Are All PwD Now
      • From COVID-19 to COVID-21: We are all Persons with Disabilities Now
      • Say it Ain’t So, Joe; or Where’s Hillary ClintonWhen We Need Her?
      • Stories We Tell, Part 1
      • Laughing helps the diaphragm too
      • Gender, Race and American Political Development Spring 2020, Syllabus with revisions accommodating “the Pandemic of 2020”
      • A Few Square Feet of Common Ground
      • Essential? Whose Body is It Anyway?
      • Reflections on From My Heart, Mind, Body, & Soul Part I
      • Courageous 10 (GOP House of Representative Members) Impeaching Trump
      • 3 – 126 or 118 Representatives Trying to Overturn 2020 Presidential Election
      • So Sue Me
      • Bound West Three Years Ago
      • Gender, Race and American Political Development Spring 2020, Syllabus with revisions accommodating “the Pandemic of 2020”
      • Spiritual Sisterhood across States (and by sister I mean any non-patriarchal thinkers welcome)
      • Baby, I’m Back
      • Identities and Intersections, and Max Tomba’s Glorious “Insurgent Universalities” in Heretical Thought
      • Courageous 10 (GOP House of Representative Members) Impeaching Trump
      • Essential? Whose Body is It Anyway?
      • Stories We Tell (3): When Does Fariba Amini Matthee, the Wife of Dorothy Munroe Chair of History
      • From COVID-19 to COVID-21: We are all Persons with Disabilities Now
      • We Are Not Traveling
      • Gender, Race and American Political Development Spring 2020, Syllabus with revisions accommodating “the Pandemic of 2020”
      • Looking For Wildlife in All the Wrong Places
      • Spiritual Sisterhood across States (and by sister I mean any non-patriarchal thinkers welcome)
      • SCAMs, SLAMs, and SLIMs
      • Rock Bottom
  • 2
    • Stories We Tell
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      • Stories We Tell, Part 1
      • Why does WNYC/PBS in NYC think all public intellectual interviewers are men? — Don’t pledge until we all hear more diverse voices
      • So Sue Me
      • From COVID-19 to COVID-21: We are all Persons with Disabilities Now
      • Stories We Tell (3): When Does Fariba Amini Matthee, the Wife of Dorothy Munroe Chair of History
      • Hard to Reach Me? Encryption is a Woman’s Best Friend or At Least Not
  • 1
    • New York Running Insult Tally
    • 6 Functions of Obama Presidency
      • Debating the Obama Presidency (preorder)
      • Obama Administration Releases Treasure Trove of NSA Documents
      • Will President Obama Exhibit Leadership?
      • Can a Retail Store Pray? The Supreme Court takes on Obamacare
      • Immigration: Make-or-Break for Obama and the GOP
      • Key Concepts from Obama Book that Scare Right Wing Hackers
      • Obama Outfoxes the GOP
      • Snowden, Obama’s Surveillance State & Anti-American Degrees
      • Sugary Drinks — What New York Health Board Lacks, the Obamas Accommodate
      • Obama Report on Intelligence & Communication Technologies Posted
      • Obama’s Not a Berliner Speech
    • Trump
      • Courageous 10 (GOP House of Representative Members) Impeaching Trump
      • President Trump’s Memorandum Criminalizing Antifa Link
      • Surprise Surprise — QAnon being Helped by Trump Campaign
      • Trump’s People’s Park
      • Post Trump Stress Disorder — 11/9; not 9/11
      • Trump’s Wars + Math of APSA Male Presidency Culture
      • Too Tired, Too Many Global Golf Course Fries Trump
      • Trump, Sovereignty, and Kings?
      • Trump’s Deal with the Congressional Democrats — Are We Surprised, Really?
      • Trump’s Horns (of a Dilemma?)
    • Repubs
      • Repub “Hypo-Crits”
      • Trump the Retrogressive – One Party State Repub
      • Republican Rat Ship Running Time
      • The Grapes of Wrath Revisited
      • Courageous 10 (GOP House of Representative Members) Impeaching Trump
      • Gendering a Traitor
      • Biden Better Defund the Capitol Police + Do a Mulvaney, Now Please
      • 3 – 126 or 118 Representatives Trying to Overturn 2020 Presidential Election
      • Say it Ain’t So, Joe; or Where’s Hillary ClintonWhen We Need Her?
      • Unitary Executive-ese (UE-ese) is about defining power and authority, and then this helps us determine an era or a nation’s legitimacy
      • Courageous 10 (GOP House of Representative Members) Impeaching Trump
      • GOP: Party of Lincoln? Or Falwell?
      • Trump’s S.L.A.P.P. = G.R.O.P.E. (read GOP Reprisal Opposing Public Exposure; or Grotesque Retribution Opposing Public Exposure).
      • Grieving Overwhelmed Party (GOP)
      • Immigration: Make-or-Break for Obama and the GOP
      • Obama Outfoxes the GOP
      • R.I.P. GOP – The White Elephant Faces Extinction
      • ACA + Obama’s Leadership & Democratic Saboteurs (GOP tbs)*
      • GOP Punishes CNN & NBC for Featuring Hillary the Docudrama Queen
      • ACA + Obama’s Leadership & Democratic Saboteurs (GOP tbs)*
      • Sweatin’ With the Angries (“conservative” pop & “stupid” liberal mom on “Morning Joe”)
      • Is a Conservative Radio Hosts “Joke” about Hillary, Hate Speech, Free Speech or Inciting Violence?
      • Biden Better Defund the Capitol Police + Do a Mulvaney, Now Please
      • President Trump’s Memorandum Criminalizing Antifa Link
      • Charlie’s Golden Ticket, or Articles of Confederation, Part II?
      • Gender, Race and American Political Development Spring 2020, Syllabus with revisions accommodating “the Pandemic of 2020”
      • Laughing helps the diaphragm too
      • Baby, I’m Back
      • SCAMs, SLAMs, and SLIMs
      • Identities and Intersections, and Max Tomba’s Glorious “Insurgent Universalities” in Heretical Thought

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