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“Malcolm Still Speaks.” Ibram X. Kendi on George Breitman and the Enduring Legacy of Malcolm X

“Malcolm Still Speaks.” Ibram X. Kendi on George Breitman and the Enduring Legacy of Malcolm X

From the Introduction to "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements"

By Ibram X. Kendi | February 20, 2024

An Overdue Reckoning: How Sweden Continues to Deny Its Settler-Colonial Past

An Overdue Reckoning: How Sweden Continues to Deny Its Settler-Colonial Past

Linnea Axelsson on Scandinavia’s Hidden History of Indigenous Oppression

By Linnea Axelsson | February 16, 2024

Steeped in War and Erasure: Amitav Ghosh on How Tea Funded the British Empire’s Expansion

Steeped in War and Erasure: Amitav Ghosh on How Tea Funded the British Empire’s Expansion

On the Complex Colonial Histories of Chinese and Indian Tea

By Amitav Ghosh | February 14, 2024

Journalism as a Front of War: <br>On American Media and the Ideology of the Status Quo

Journalism as a Front of War:
On American Media and the Ideology of the Status Quo

Introducing a New Column by Steven W. Thrasher

By Steven W. Thrasher | February 12, 2024

Blood on All Our Hands: Gunnhild Øyehaug on Adania Shibli’s <em>Minor Detail</em>

Blood on All Our Hands: Gunnhild Øyehaug on Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail

“The book had overwhelmed me, among other things, because of this: shame at how little I actually knew.”

By Gunnhild Øyehaug | February 12, 2024

“A Thousand Eulogies Are Exported to the Comma.” Of Syntax and Genocide

“A Thousand Eulogies Are Exported to the Comma.” Of Syntax and Genocide

Nicki Kattoura on the Impossibility of Writing About the Destruction of Gaza

By Nicki Kattoura | February 12, 2024

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No Safe Place to Grieve: The Trauma of Muslim Americans Living Under Surveillance

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Aisha Abdel Gawad on the Danger of Talking Openly About Palestinian Pain

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The Revolutionary Stranger: How Frantz Fanon Put Theory Into Practice

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Adam Shatz on the Life and Legacy of a Great Post-Colonialism Thinker

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Life a Cold Crematorium: A Long-Lost Memoir from a Holocaust Survivor

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What Virginia Woolf’s “Dreadnought Hoax” Tells Us About Ourselves

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Danell Jones Grapples With a Beloved Author’s Casual Racism

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Fire, Earth, Spring: Unity and Resistance in the Lands of SWANA

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Sahar Delijani on the Legacies of the Arab Spring

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