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Palestine protest

Protecting Pro-Palestine Activists Can Feel Almost Impossible—but These Students Succeeded Protecting Pro-Palestine Activists Can Feel Almost Impossible—but These Students Succeeded

When a lawyer tried to force UCLA’s Students for Justice in Palestine to publicize the names of their speakers at a 2018 conference, the students fought back. And won.

Mar 16, 2021 / StudentNation / Lex McMenamin

Communist Party Congress

Cold War Nostalgia Fuels a Dangerous New Anti-China Consensus Cold War Nostalgia Fuels a Dangerous New Anti-China Consensus

It is folly to use China as a bogeyman to help unite America and revive NATO.

Mar 15, 2021 / Jeet Heer

Biden foreign policy

Biden’s Foreign Policy Is Clinging to an Irrelevant Past Biden’s Foreign Policy Is Clinging to an Irrelevant Past

It’s past time to give the narratives of the 20th century a decent burial. Doing so may be a precondition for our very survival.

Mar 12, 2021 / Andrew J. Bacevich

Chinese and Djiboutian national flags

The Rise of the East Will Not End the Empire of the West The Rise of the East Will Not End the Empire of the West

China has no interest in destroying the system on which its success was built.

Mar 12, 2021 / Kehinde Andrews

Oprah Winfrey interviews Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

Harry Breaks Free From the Racial Contract—and Pays the Price Harry Breaks Free From the Racial Contract—and Pays the Price

The response to Harry’s abandoning that contract, both in the Buckingham Palace and British media, has been swift, overt and punitive.

Mar 12, 2021 / Kali Holloway

Parenting in Exile From Egypt: The Choices I Made for My Daughters

Parenting in Exile From Egypt: The Choices I Made for My Daughters Parenting in Exile From Egypt: The Choices I Made for My Daughters

Even though I know what the dictatorship would do to me if I returned to Egypt, I am consumed with guilt for abandoning my family.

Mar 11, 2021 / Muhammad Kamal

Will the Democrats Renew Their Membership in the War Party?

Will the Democrats Renew Their Membership in the War Party? Will the Democrats Renew Their Membership in the War Party?

Regardless of which party is in power, US foreign policy since 9/11 has meant a unified government under the masters of war.

Mar 11, 2021 / Column / David Bromwich

Greta Thunberg

Meet the Climate Kids Who Are Mobilizing a Generation of Parents Meet the Climate Kids Who Are Mobilizing a Generation of Parents

Across the country and the world, children are waking moms and dads to the urgent need to take climate action.

Mar 10, 2021 / Feature / Angely Mercado

International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day International Women’s Day

Healing hands project.

Mar 8, 2021 / OppArt / Marietta Bernstorff

Why Do Humans Move?

Why Do Humans Move? Why Do Humans Move?

A new history examines how migration has been the rule of history, not the exception.

Mar 8, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Immerwahr

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