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In which Refaat Alareer is dying as an old man & Henry Kissinger has died young
In the parallel world in which gesture is followed /
by recompense
Many Speak for Palestine
The solidarity movement doesn’t have a single leader—and it doesn’t need one.
The Real Scandal of Campus Protest
It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it.
South Africa’s Enduring Unfreedom
An interview with S’bu Zikode, leader of the shack dwellers’ movement, thirty years after apartheid’s end.
Psychic Numbing
For Robert Jay Lifton, treating veterans’ trauma was an antiwar tool. How did PTSD, the diagnosis he helped create, come to accommodate state violence?
Lonesome Would Mean Nothing to Me at All
Teachers told him it was unlikely a child could slip or tumble from that great a height without pushing or prompting. Impossible, they meant to say.
The Bonfire of the Words
“If ideas are discarded when no longer modish, could we not do the same with unfashionable words?”
Labor and the Bibi-Modi “Bromance”
India’s recruitment drives to send workers to Israel resemble British indenture.
I Pass Women Sewing at their Singers and a Blind Albino Child
I once wrote letters to a prisoner at Guantánamo. The letters always came back / opened.
What’s Next for Music Criticism?
Pitchfork is dead, but good reviewing doesn’t have to die with it.
Who’s Afraid of Frantz Fanon?
Long decried by liberals and conservatives alike, the Martinican psychiatrist remains one of the most piercing critics of colonialism.
A Crack in Putin’s Armor
What the concert hall attack means for the Russian leader’s future.
Two Photographs
The first capturing your gaze into nowhere
the other when you covered your face with your hands
so you were not anonymous, only unseen
The Ghost of Gabriel García Márquez
On the Nobel Prize–winning writer’s posthumously published novel, Until August.
What Does It Take to Keep a Movement Going?
Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix discuss their new book, Solidarity: The Past, Present, And Future of a World-Changing Idea.
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