Mahmood Mamdani’s Uganda Mahmood Mamdani’s Uganda
In his new book Slow Poison, the accomplished anthropologist revisits the Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni years.
Dec 16, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Howard W. French
Have We Normalized Nuclear War? Have We Normalized Nuclear War?
If anything, the widespread lack of comprehension (and so protest) is one big reason nuclear war remains so chillingly possible.
Dec 15, 2025 / William Astore
Blind to Brutality: The Palestinian Death Toll Surpasses 70,000 Blind to Brutality: The Palestinian Death Toll Surpasses 70,000
Over 70,525 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza; scholars estimate that 80 percent were civilians, largely women and children.
Dec 15, 2025 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo
What to Do With the Ballroom in 2029? What to Do With the Ballroom in 2029?
Kristi Kremed.
Dec 12, 2025 / Steve Brodner
The US Is Looking More Like Putin’s Russia Every Day The US Is Looking More Like Putin’s Russia Every Day
We may already be on a superhighway to the sort of class- and race-stratified autocracy that it took Russia so many years to become after the Soviet Union collapsed.
Dec 11, 2025 / Andrea Mazzarino
King of Deadly Illegal Boat Strikes King of Deadly Illegal Boat Strikes
Since September 2, the US has carried out more than 20 strikes on vessels suspected of drug trafficking in both the southern Caribbean and the eastern Pacific. At least 83 people h...
Dec 11, 2025 / OppArt / Felipe Galindo
Israel Wants to Destroy My Family's Way of Life. We'll Never Give In. Israel Wants to Destroy My Family's Way of Life. We'll Never Give In.
My family's olive trees have stood in Gaza for decades. Despite genocide, drought, pollution, toxic mines, uprooting, bulldozing, and burning, they're still here—and so are we.
Dec 11, 2025 / Hend Salama Abo Helow
Trump’s National Security Strategy and the Big Con Trump’s National Security Strategy and the Big Con
Sense, nonsense, and lunacy.
Dec 10, 2025 / Robert L. Borosage
Does Russian Feminism Have a Future? Does Russian Feminism Have a Future?
A Russian feminist reflects on Julia Ioffe’s history of modern Russia.
Dec 10, 2025 / Nadezhda Azhgikhina