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April 6, 2021
How to Avoid the Anti-Imperialism of Fools
The logic of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” is a recipe for empty cynicism.
Gilbert Achcar
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April 5, 2021
The General, the Mistress, and the Love Stories That Blind Us
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez discusses her new book on Isabel Cooper, a Filipina American actress and Douglas MacArthur’s lover.
Noah Flora
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March 22, 2021
Gangs Rule the Streets of Jovenel Moïse’s Haiti
A whole country has been kidnapped by a bloodthirsty, money-hungry cabal. And how does the US State Department respond? By calling for “dialogue.”
Amy Wilentz
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March 19, 2021
Anti-Asian Violence in America Is Rooted in US Empire
If we are to stop anti-Asian hatred in the United States, we must recognize how US foreign policy perpetuates it.
Christine Ahn, Terry K Park, Kathleen Richards for The Nation
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March 17, 2021
Harry and Meghan’s Interview Has Given a Welcome Boost to the Anti-Monarchy Movement
Let’s also abolish the monarchical thinking that defers to oligarchy in the UK and the US.
John Nichols
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March 12, 2021
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.
Kehinde Andrews
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March 9, 2021
The Future of Postcolonial Thought
A pair of books—one by Walter Mignolo and Catherine Walsh, another by Achille Mbembe—consider the unfulfilled promise of decolonization.
Arjun Appadurai
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February 18, 2021
In Okinawa, the US Military Seeks a Base Built on the Bones of the War Dead
Japan is using earth from a battlefield filled with human remains to build the foundation of a US military installation.
Maia Hibbett
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February 5, 2021
46 and Done: Why Joe Biden Should Be Our Last President
Parliamentary democracies give their citizens tuition-free college, state-subsidized child care, generous paid leave, socialized medicine. We get “Hail to the Chief.”
Alexis Grenell
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January 28, 2021
Rand Paul Is a Monarchist—and Donald Trump Is His King
To defend his sovereign from accountability, the Kentucky senator is peddling the GOP’s latest Big Lie.
John Nichols