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The Cop Did It

Matt Hanson

May 26, 2021

Powerful citizens are usually above suspicion.

A Fierce and Violent Land

Sergio González Rodríguez

May 24, 2021

An excerpt from Sergio González Rodríguez’s “El hombre sin cabeza.”

New Problems, Old Ideas

Roman Gressier

May 20, 2021

Nayib Bukele dismantles El Salvador’s fledgling democracy.

In Fury We Trust

Joshua Gutterman Tranen

May 20, 2021

The popular origin story of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power has a mythic quality to it. In March 1987, the writer and filmmaker Nora Ephron cancelled her planned talk at the Lesbian and Gay Center in New York. To fill in, organizers tapped Larry Kramer, author of the ...

Building from the Rubble

M. Muhannad Ayyash

May 19, 2021

Palestinian resistance and the road to liberation

Narrative Napalm

Noah Kulwin

May 17, 2021

Malcolm Gladwell’s apologia for American butchery.

The Unreconstructed Radical

Richard Kreitner

May 13, 2021

Thaddeus Stevens and the history of compromise with slaveocracy.

All Quiet on the Eastern Front

Sarah Aziza

May 06, 2021

Joe Biden follows Trump’s footsteps in Saudi Arabia.

Between a Rock and a God Place

Theo Whitcomb

May 05, 2021

Rural Oregon’s war on the homeless.

Social Justice Tourism

Jaime Chu

April 30, 2021

A tech travelogue set in rural China obfuscates material conditions

Mutant Meter Maids

Ryan Bradley,  Alex Sherman

April 28, 2021

On LA parking and the corporate takeover of municipal functions.

Abiy Ahmed’s Counterrevolution

Alex de Waal

April 26, 2021

The Tigray conflict is a struggle over over the idea of Ethiopia.