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    Too Little, Too Late: On American Media Executives’ Hypocritical Support of Palestinian Journalists

    By Steven W. Thrasher  March 12, 2024
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    Emily Raboteau and Sarah Viren on Climate Change, Birding, and Social Justice

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    Adoption, Abortion, Autonomy: On the Literature of Reproductive Justice

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

    By Deborah Taffa  February 28, 2024
    Journalism

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

    By Steven W. Thrasher  February 27, 2024
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    Internal Emails Reveal Columbia’s “Task Force on Antisemitism” is Causing Ruptures in Its Faculty.

    By Literary Hub  February 26, 2024
    Blackness

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

    By Shayla Lawson  February 26, 2024
    Politics

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

    By Rebecca Solnit  February 23, 2024
    Criminal Justice

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

    By Laurence Ralph  February 23, 2024
    Journalism

    Debate Me! Why Writers Should Argue With Themselves

    By Terry Golway  February 22, 2024
    Gaza

    Why Brené Brown’s Gospel of Vulnerability Fails the World’s Most Vulnerable

    By Rafia Zakaria  February 21, 2024
    Gaza

    “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
    On Race

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

    By Ibram X. Kendi  February 20, 2024
    Colonialism

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

    By Linnea Axelsson  February 16, 2024
    Colonialism

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

    By Amitav Ghosh  February 14, 2024
    Journalism

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

    By Steven W. Thrasher  February 12, 2024
    Palestinian Literature

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

    By Gunnhild Øyehaug  February 12, 2024
    Gaza

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    American Presidents

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