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A demonstrator waves a Palestine flag and an American flag

Want to Give Israelis Seamless Travel? First You Have To Recognize Arab Americans as Americans. Want to Give Israelis Seamless Travel? First You Have To Recognize Arab Americans as Americans.

For years, the State Department has failed to protect Arab Americans from mistreatment at the Israel-Palestine border. Now’s not the time to ignore that.

Jul 5, 2022 / James Zogby

ASHAs hold a sign protesting low pay.

The Care Workers of Rural India Are Ready to Strike The Care Workers of Rural India Are Ready to Strike

More than a million Accredited Social Health Activists, all of whom are female, were on the front lines of rural India’s Covid response. Now they are fighting for higher pay and be...

Jul 5, 2022 / Sanket Jain

Joe Biden Is Not the Fighter America Needs

Joe Biden Is Not the Fighter America Needs Joe Biden Is Not the Fighter America Needs

The president loves the system far too much to fix it.

Jul 1, 2022 / Jeet Heer

How Paula Rego’s Abortion Pictures Changed the Conversation

How Paula Rego’s Abortion Pictures Changed the Conversation How Paula Rego’s Abortion Pictures Changed the Conversation

When well-meaning critics described her subjects as downtrodden, Rego shot back, “These women are not victims.”

Jul 1, 2022 / Margaret Spillane

A woman in a suit at a microphone

After the G7 Summit, Germany’s Climate Envoy Says Rich Countries Are Still Falling Short After the G7 Summit, Germany’s Climate Envoy Says Rich Countries Are Still Falling Short

Jennifer Morgan is candid: G7 countries need to do more to halt the climate emergency and address the spike in world hunger. 

Jul 1, 2022 / Mark Hertsgaard

A crow of people in formalwear stands with fists raised.

France Rediscovers Parliamentary Politics France Rediscovers Parliamentary Politics

Emmanuel Macron’s centrist coalition would rather look for allies on the far right than on the left. 

Jun 30, 2022 / Harrison Stetler

Michele Goodwin on the End of Abortion and Anatol Lieven on Ukraine

Michele Goodwin on the End of Abortion and Anatol Lieven on Ukraine Michele Goodwin on the End of Abortion and Anatol Lieven on Ukraine

On this episode of Start Making Sense, we revisit the history of forced pregnancy under the slave regime in antebellum America, and speculate on how the war will end in Ukraine.

Jun 30, 2022 / Podcast / Jon Wiener and Start Making Sense

Charred schoolwork after a Russian bomb attack in Kyiv

How Will the War in Ukraine End? How Will the War in Ukraine End?

If you’re betting on a democratic Russia anytime soon, you’d better hope peacefully.

Jun 29, 2022 / Rajan Menon

Man smokes in front of Putin billboard

China Will Decide the Fate of Ukraine China Will Decide the Fate of Ukraine

Only a decisive defeat of Putinism would offer the world some slight hope of restoring some measure of planetary balance.

Jun 27, 2022 / John Feffer

Fernanda Melchor’s Dark Morality Plays

Fernanda Melchor’s Dark Morality Plays Fernanda Melchor’s Dark Morality Plays

In her third novel, Melchor turns her allegorical powers in an even more explicitly political direction.

Jun 27, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Nicolás Medina Mora

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