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America Has Its Own Problems to Worry About America Has Its Own Problems to Worry About

Neither Russian “fascism” nor its Chinese variant poses a significant danger to American democracy, which is actually threatened from within.

Jun 8, 2022 / Andrew J. Bacevich

Matt Duss on the Ukrainian Dilemma

Matt Duss on the Ukrainian Dilemma Matt Duss on the Ukrainian Dilemma

Bernie Sanders’s foreign policy adviser joins The Time of Monsters to discuss how the war in Ukraine presents a difficult problem for the left. 

Jun 8, 2022 / Podcast / Jeet Heer

Alaa Abd el-Fattah and the Hope of a Generation

Alaa Abd el-Fattah and the Hope of a Generation Alaa Abd el-Fattah and the Hope of a Generation

In the essays of You Have Not Yet Been Defeated, the Egyptian activist and blogger reminds us that democracy flourishes and falters at the interstices, the in-between spaces, and t...

Jun 7, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Hussein Omar

NATO Secretary General holds images of Sweden's and Finland's flags.

The End of the Nordic Ideal The End of the Nordic Ideal

Finland and Sweden long held that the Nordic social model was incompatible with NATO membership. The invasion of Ukraine has changed that.

Jun 7, 2022 / Heikki Patomäki

When “Blowback” Is More Relevant Than Ever

When “Blowback” Is More Relevant Than Ever When “Blowback” Is More Relevant Than Ever

The continued costs and ongoing consequences of American empire.

Jun 6, 2022 / Tom Engelhardt

The Baby Formula Shortage Is a Preview of a Coming Food Crisis

The Baby Formula Shortage Is a Preview of a Coming Food Crisis The Baby Formula Shortage Is a Preview of a Coming Food Crisis

Unless governments transition off fossil fuels and limit global warming, food shortages and famine will become the norm.

Jun 6, 2022 / Liat Olenick

The Dangers of Biden’s Lesser-Evilism in India

The Dangers of Biden’s Lesser-Evilism in India The Dangers of Biden’s Lesser-Evilism in India

Building an anti-China coalition, the president turns a blind eye to Narendra Modi’s increasingly authoritarian rule.

Jun 3, 2022 / Jeet Heer

Workers on motorcycles protest Chinese government in 1989.

The Radical, Transnational Legacy of Tiananmen Workers The Radical, Transnational Legacy of Tiananmen Workers

China’s labor-led protests modeled a more ambitious kind of politics than the one crafted by the Tiananmen student liberals.

Jun 3, 2022 / Promise Li

Syrian soldier US airstrike

War Is a Form of Terrorism War Is a Form of Terrorism

If we lack empathy for those who suffer in our wars, we endanger humanity’s future.

Jun 2, 2022 / Andrea Mazzarino

Monkeypox Is Not a Gay Disease

Monkeypox Is Not a Gay Disease Monkeypox Is Not a Gay Disease

But it has arrived in our community—and our decades of experience dealing with HIV give us the chance to get things right from the outset.

Jun 2, 2022 / Gregg Gonsalves

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