Essays
Maximillian Alvarez
What does it mean to live in a world in which history has rusted under the monstrous weight of the permanent now?
- March 25, 2019
Nikhil Pal Singh
The Cold War says more about how U.S. elites imagined their “freedom” than it does about enabling other people to be free.
- March 14, 2019
Adom Getachew
In the 1970s, a bloc of Third World states forced the United Nations to take seriously the unequal distribution of global wealth. Could their example inspire a new generation?
- February 5, 2019
Arundhati Roy, Avni Sejpal
An interview with Arundhati Roy on censorship, storytelling, and her problem with the term "postcolonialism."
- January 3, 2019
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The violent theft of land and capital is at the core of the U.S. experiment: the U.S. military got its start in the wars against Native Americans.
- November 20, 2018
Stuart Schrader
A new book reveals the extent of the "Greater United States," but territory is not as important as it used to be. Instead, imperialism endures today in the logic of capitalism.
- March 29, 2019
Marisol LeBrón
In the 1990s, Puerto Rico showed Washington how militarized policing and privatization can extract profits from poor people of color.
- December 12, 2018
Wajahat Ali, Pankaj Mishra
Wajahat Ali speaks with Pankaj Mishra on the devastating consequences of Western imperialism, globalization, and capitalism and the fate of liberal democracy.
- November 7, 2018
Jeanne Morefield
It reflects, like a funhouse mirror, a twisted image of U.S. imperialism.
- January 8, 2019
Michael Kimmage
The Burden of Being Good
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Mark Bould
Trump’s Space Force is a bad reboot of the old imperial fantasy of control from above.
- October 31, 2018
Fiction
Yuri Herrera
“Agent Probii’s first days as undercover agent were particularly disconcerting because within the city each resident spoke a different language.”
- May 3, 2019
