Asia

Peng Shuai

Where Is Peng Shuai? And What Is the IOC Going to Do About It? Where Is Peng Shuai? And What Is the IOC Going to Do About It?

With the 2022 Beijing Olympics looming, the IOC’s silence in the case of a missing tennis star who accused a Chinese official of sexual assault speaks volumes.

Nov 20, 2021 / Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff

Capitol Insurrection

This Is the End of the American Century This Is the End of the American Century

It sure has been a disaster.

Nov 8, 2021 / Tom Engelhardt

Modi’s India Is “One of the Most Dangerous Countries for Journalists”

Modi’s India Is “One of the Most Dangerous Countries for Journalists” Modi’s India Is “One of the Most Dangerous Countries for Journalists”

The police now routinely file criminal charges against journalists, including sedition​ charges, for the ​crime of reporting​.

Nov 8, 2021 / Suchitra Vijayan and Francesca Recchia

Taiwan Strait Helicopter

Do We Really Need Another Cold War? Do We Really Need Another Cold War?

The world barely survived the first one—Biden could prevent the next.

Oct 28, 2021 / David Vine

Taiwan Strait Helicopter

Dangerous Brinkmanship Over Taiwan Dangerous Brinkmanship Over Taiwan

How to avoid US-Chinese military conflict in the Western Pacific.

Oct 27, 2021 / Michael T. Klare

Climate Change Has Exposed the Decline of the American Empire

Climate Change Has Exposed the Decline of the American Empire Climate Change Has Exposed the Decline of the American Empire

Responding to the climate crisis has become a race against time, and our government still dawdles at the starting line.

Oct 26, 2021 / William deBuys

PAKISTAN-POLITICS-DEFENCE-NATIONAL DAY

Imran Khan Faces a Standoff With the Pakistani Military Imran Khan Faces a Standoff With the Pakistani Military

The prime minister has refused to sign off on the appointment of the military’s favored candidate for leadership of the country's top intelligence agency.

Oct 21, 2021 / Hasan Ali

Elaine Luria

Meet Representative Elaine Luria, Chowderhead Meet Representative Elaine Luria, Chowderhead

The Virginia Democrat wants Congress to give the president the authority to go to war with China. Because the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was such a shining success.

Oct 14, 2021 / Column / Andrew J. Bacevich

Xinjiang surveillance

How “Terror Capitalism” Links Uyghur Oppression to the Global Economy How “Terror Capitalism” Links Uyghur Oppression to the Global Economy

The camps in Xinjiang and undocumented work in the US are part of the same continuum of unfreedom.

Oct 12, 2021 / Darren Byler

Anthony Veasna So’s Portraits of Diaspora

Anthony Veasna So’s Portraits of Diaspora Anthony Veasna So’s Portraits of Diaspora

His posthumous collection Afterparties is part of a new wave of writing on the cultural memory and historical traumas of Southeast Asian immigrants. 

Oct 5, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Larissa Pham

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