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A truck full of cotton is dropped off next to a ginning depot.

We Need to Think About Xinjiang in Internationalist Terms We Need to Think About Xinjiang in Internationalist Terms

Challenging the right wing’s cold war agenda means highlighting the Uighur re-education camps’ links to counterterrorism and global capital.

Oct 28, 2020 / A. Liu

The Unraveling of Thailand’s National Myth

The Unraveling of Thailand’s National Myth The Unraveling of Thailand’s National Myth

Young Thais are finding power in each other—and their demands could transform Southeast Asia.

Oct 28, 2020 / Wilfred Chan

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Nuclear Weapons Have Always Been Immoral. Now They’re Illegal. Nuclear Weapons Have Always Been Immoral. Now They’re Illegal.

The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons has reached the 50 ratifications needed to become international law.

Oct 27, 2020 / Ray Acheson

Wake Up and Smell the Cheetos

Wake Up and Smell the Cheetos Wake Up and Smell the Cheetos

Public intervention. Phone booth, Rivington and Allen Streets, NYC 2020.

Oct 27, 2020 / OppArt / Maia Lorian

Trump Attempts One More Preelection Power Grab

Trump Attempts One More Preelection Power Grab Trump Attempts One More Preelection Power Grab

An executive order establishing new hiring and firing practices will, if he is reelected, give him extraordinary control over almost the entire civil service.

Oct 27, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky

A crowd of demonstrators wearing masks and waving flags.

A New Constitution: What the United States Can Learn From Chile A New Constitution: What the United States Can Learn From Chile

Do the problems that beset us, so similar to those that plague our Chilean brothers and sisters, not cry out for a radical reimagining of who we are?

Oct 26, 2020 / Ariel Dorfman

Military Flyovers at NFL Games Are Ridiculous

Military Flyovers at NFL Games Are Ridiculous Military Flyovers at NFL Games Are Ridiculous

Troy Aikman and Joe Buck would be right to call them out for what they are: outrageously wasteful publicity stunts.

Oct 21, 2020 / Dave Zirin

Bolivians Reclaim Their Democracy

Bolivians Reclaim Their Democracy Bolivians Reclaim Their Democracy

The overwhelming MAS election victory is a repudiation of the racist coup regime as well as of the Trump administration and the OAS, which helped install it.

Oct 21, 2020 / Mark Weisbrot

The defendants in the Chicago trial all sit around microphones with reporters crowded around them.

Aaron Sorkin Sanitizes the Chicago 7 Aaron Sorkin Sanitizes the Chicago 7

The centrist filmmaker captures the drama of the 1960s, but tries too hard to make radicals palatable to contemporary liberals.

Oct 21, 2020 / Jeet Heer

Reimagining American Foreign Policy

Reimagining American Foreign Policy Reimagining American Foreign Policy

A new book examines the narrative framework around internationalism that foreign-policy elites coined in the 1940s, and which has shaped the world we live in.

Oct 20, 2020 / Andrew J. Bacevich

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