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Today 5:00 am
Two Decades Later, We Still Know Too Little About the Government’s Torture Program
Attempts to keep that blindfold in place in the name of “national security” have helped sustain darkness over light.
Karen J. Greenberg
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Yesterday 5:00 am
The Trauma and Resilience of Tulsa’s Greenwood District
Karlos K. Hill, a historian of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, speaks with Victor Luckerson, author of an “epic” new book on Greenwood.
Karlos K. Hill
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May 30, 2023
The Lost Worlds of Anton Shammas’s “Arabesques”
A new translation of the 1988 novel documents not only the loss and exile created by the Nakba but also the loss and exile created by occupation.
Raja Shehadeh
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May 30, 2023
What Are the Book Banners Afraid Of?
They are afraid of readers—especially young readers—learning the truth about humans, about American history, about, perhaps, their own lives.
Jane Smiley
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May 26, 2023
What We Can Learn From the Surge of Far-Right Violence in India
Too many upper-caste Indians and white Americans think of themselves as the only ones worthy of enjoying the spoils of the earth.
Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox
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May 25, 2023
DeSantis Seeks to Be America‘s Permanent Culture-War Commissar
How the newly announced candidate for the GOP presidential nomination hopes to ride white backlash politics all the way to the White House.
Anthony Conwright
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May 25, 2023
Focusing on the Differences Between DeSantis and Trump Is Plainly Absurd
In the areas where Americans would be most severely affected, there’s hardly a fly’s hair of separation between them.
Clarence Lusane
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May 22, 2023
Jim Brown’s War Within Himself
The passing of the football great is an opportunity to speak about his tangled legacy.
Dave Zirin
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May 22, 2023
Holding G20 Meetings in Kashmir Fuels Ecocide and Advances India’s Occupation
This week India is hosting G20 meetings in Kashmir—normalizing its military occupation of the disputed region while fueling the ongoing ecocide.
Nazish Qureshi
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May 19, 2023