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The Conditional Yes
Public Assets, Private Profits, and the Fight for the Moda Center
May 12
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Ramin Farahmandpur
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The Interpretive Pretext
In April 2000, the High Court of Justice in London ruled in Irving v.
May 9
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Ramin Farahmandpur
Borrowed Scarcity
How HB 4124 Became PSU’s Cover
May 8
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Ramin Farahmandpur
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The Squadron Is on Polymarket
How prediction markets commodify the public sphere
May 4
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Ramin Farahmandpur
The Imagined Proletariat
Rhetoric without a Subject
May 2
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Ramin Farahmandpur
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April 2026
In Solidarity This May Day 2026
After the Hammer
Apr 30
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Ramin Farahmandpur
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Two Counties, Two Classes
Last summer, I drove across the Columbia to the Vancouver Waterfront.
Apr 29
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Ramin Farahmandpur
Portland’s Summer of 2020
Ninety Days that Shook the World
Apr 26
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Ramin Farahmandpur
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Laurie Wimmer
News in Brief: Coffee Shop Regular Changes Order, Staff Bewildered
PORTLAND, Oregon — A 47-year-old university professor stunned employees at Portland’s Petrichor Coffeehouse on Tuesday by ordering a cappuccino instead…
Apr 24
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Ramin Farahmandpur
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The Feed and the Party
The Illusion of Machinery in Municipal Socialism
Apr 24
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Ramin Farahmandpur
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The Gorilla in the Newsroom
On the Oregon Journalism Project, the Oregon Education Association, and what the donor list actually shows.
Apr 23
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Ramin Farahmandpur
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The Union is the Asset...But Whose?
A Teachers’ union, an outside strategy, and the paper trail
Apr 20
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Ramin Farahmandpur
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