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Author: Rafia Zakaria

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Slumber of the UN Women
March 21, 2017
The United Nations’s sixty-first convening of its Commission on the Status of Women, ensconced in an impenetrable bureaucratic bubble. . .

Daily Bafflements
March 20, 2017
As the Trump campaign’s links to Russia are finally investigated by the FBI, it's worth reading Yasha Levine's salvo “From Russia, with Panic,” in which he wrote about how the Democratic party and the media media signed off on the findings of CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity ...

Daily Bafflements
March 17, 2017
Oh to be a fascist conservative pundit today. The possibilities, it seems, are endless. Here’s a few of our favorite right-wing revelations from the last few days: • Among Richard Spencer’s greatest hits is the dismissal of black Americans’ contributions with the ...

So Much Bigger Than Standing Rock
March 17, 2017
The way that the camp started, first of all, was with the youth. They had a vision and a goal and a dream because of the fact that suicide rates in our communities are so high. It is so devastating that so many kids would rather kill themselves than deal with the hurt and the ...

Trump Trolls the Welfare State
March 17, 2017
The document released last Wednesday by the White House bears no resemblance to most budget documents of days gone by. It’s more like the last minute delivery of a late term paper by some sleep-deprived undergraduate. The text has been scanned into a PDF file, rather than ...

The PC Debate, Sullied
March 16, 2017
In times of perceived crisis, the American liberal mind instinctively reaches for reassurance in its great dream of impartial reason. The noble pursuit of above-the-fray truth is besieged on all fronts, the stout refrain usually goes, and the most urgent order of business, in ...

Daily Bafflements
March 14, 2017
LD50, the London gallery with alt-right leanings, has been closed. Last week Megan Nolan wrote about the way mystification in the supposedly apolitical art world enables the spread of reactionary ideas: "I have seen it said by antifa that LD50 is not a story about art, but about ...

Organizing in Pence Country
March 14, 2017
To those who say that strike is only the luxury of the privileged, that is bullshit. Strike is the most basic form of resistance for the most vulnerable women. It is precisely the most vulnerable women that have come out and demanded their rights over the history of modernity ...

Accessorized for the Apocalypse
March 13, 2017
In prepping scenes, the sheer weight and volume of things, an essential part of the North American experience for a while now, is recorded and imagined in a different time. Things are arced from abundance to scarcity, reinvented with meaning, imparted with an aura that they do ...