The Possible Futures of the US under Trump

Critical scholars, experts, and activists reflect on the possible impacts of Trump’s election on a variety of social justice issues.

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• 21st-CENTURY FASCISM AND RESISTANCE (published Friday, Jan. 20)

Rachel Herzing & Isaac Ontiveros, Study for Struggle: Weaponizing Theory for the Fights Ahead

William I. Robinson, Trumpism, 21st-Century Fascism, and the Dictatorship of the Transnational Capitalist Class

• WOMEN’S ISSUES & REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS (published Thursday, Jan. 19)

Carol Mukhopadhyay, Gender and Trump

• HEALTH CARE (published Thursday, Jan. 19)

Thomas Bodenheimer, Trump’s Health Care Agenda

• INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (published Wednesday, Jan. 18)

Gregory Shank, Some Aspects of the Trump Administration’s Foreign Policy

Clifford Welch, Latin America vs. Trump

• WELFARE POLICY (published Tuesday, Jan. 17)

Gwendolyn Mink, The End of Welfare?

Tina Sacks, Death by a Thousand Budget Cuts: The Need for a New Fight for Poor People’s Rights

• IMMIGRATION POLICY (published Monday, Jan. 16)

Ray Michalowski, Donald Trump and Immigration: A Few Predictions

Marla Ramirez, The “Immigrant Problem”: A Historical Review and the New Impacts under Trump

• LGBTQ POLITICS (published Friday, Jan. 13)

Clare Sears, A Queer Exemption? What Trump’s Presidency Means for LGBTQ Politics

• ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY (published Thursday, Jan. 12)

Michael Lynch et al., Social Justice, Environmental Destruction, and the Trump Presidency: A Criminological View
Jordan Mazurek, Orange is the New Green: The Environmental Justice Implications of Trump’s EPA

• RACE & RACISM (published Wednesday, Jan. 11)

Jason Williams, Donald Trump and Race 

• LABOR & CLASS (published Tuesday, Jan. 10)

Colin Jenkins, Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: Bracing for Trump’s Anti-Worker, Corporate Agenda

• PENAL POLITICS (published Monday, Jan. 9)

Michelle Brown, Punishment and Policing in the Trump Era
Alessandro De Giorgi, Neoliberal Authoritarianism: Notes on Penal Politics in Trump’s America

• Statement of the SJ Editorial Board on the 2016 Election