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From the Reservation to the River: On the Complexities of Writing About a Native Childhood

From the Reservation to the River: On the Complexities of Writing About a Native Childhood

Deborah Taffa on Acknowledging America’s Genocide of Native People

By Deborah Taffa | February 28, 2024

As Journalists Are Murdered in Gaza Their Counterparts Lose Jobs in America

As Journalists Are Murdered in Gaza Their Counterparts Lose Jobs in America

Steven W. Thrasher Wonders Who’s Left to “Afflict the Comfortable”

By Steven W. Thrasher | February 27, 2024

Internal Emails Reveal Columbia’s “Task Force on Antisemitism” is Causing Ruptures in Its Faculty.

Internal Emails Reveal Columbia’s “Task Force on Antisemitism” is Causing Ruptures in Its Faculty.

“The question of what you mean when you say ‘antisemitism’ is kinda of the essence here.”

By Literary Hub | February 26, 2024

Blackness Beyond America: Shayla Lawson on Global Conceptions of Black Identity

Blackness Beyond America: Shayla Lawson on Global Conceptions of Black Identity

“We don’t just need the summary version of the diasporic experience, we need every story.”

By Shayla Lawson | February 26, 2024

What Is Left? Rebecca Solnit on the Perennial Divisions of the American Left

What Is Left? Rebecca Solnit on the Perennial Divisions of the American Left

“It should be a modest request to ask that ‘left’ not mean supporters of authoritarian regimes.”

By Rebecca Solnit | February 23, 2024

Rethinking “Justice” in the Wake of a Violent Death Close to Home

Rethinking “Justice” in the Wake of a Violent Death Close to Home

Laurence Ralph on Grief and the American Cycle of Vengeance

By Laurence Ralph | February 23, 2024

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“Do Palestinian Lives Have the Same Value to Us?” Ramsey Nasr on Gaza, Migrant Drownings, and the Right to Dignity

By Ramsey Nasr | February 20, 2024

“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

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On American Media and the Ideology of the Status Quo

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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

No Slaves, No Masters: What Democracy Meant to Abraham Lincoln

No Slaves, No Masters: What Democracy Meant to Abraham Lincoln

Allen C. Guelzo on the 16th President’s Civic and Political Philosophy

By Allen C. Guelzo | February 8, 2024

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