Rehabilitation and Corrections in the Era of Mass Incarceration
A Chat with Citizen Critic Dr. Rita Shah about The Meaning of Rehabilitation and Its Impact on Parole:...
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The Americans with Disabilities Act and the Language of ‘Potential’
The funeral of former President George H.W. Bush has prompted journalists to assess the legacy of one of...
Disrupting the Trump Monologue
Two weeks before Christmas, news audiences were treated to a rare spectacle in the Oval Office: a bickering...
Is a Cake Just a Cake? A Lesson in Semiotics
Remember the Christian baker whose refusal to create a custom cake for a gay wedding was upheld last...
Why Old Tactics Can’t Combat the Alt-Right
On November 18, the Washington Post detailed the satirical resistance strategies of Christopher Blair against the far right....
Contesting the ‘Anchor Baby’ Narrative
When President Donald Trump announced his plans to end automatic birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented migrants...
The Complexity of Claiming Native American Identity
What do Blake Lively, Johnny Depp, Justin Bieber, and Bill Clinton have in common? They all have claimed...
Citizen Critics Live:
Midterms 2018
As Election Day unfolds across America, Citizen Critics bring you unique expertise and perspectives on political campaigns and...
Critics Chat: Democratic Identity and the 2018 Midterms
With the 2018 Midterm Elections on the horizon, a group of Citizen Critics editors debated one of the...
If Dems are elected, they’ll do what we’ve been doing!
Recently, a common claim (what scholars of rhetoric would call a topos) has emerged among Trump and GOP...