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It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it.
For Robert Jay Lifton, treating veterans’ trauma was an antiwar tool. How did PTSD, the diagnosis he helped create, come to accommodate state violence?
What the concert hall attack means for the Russian leader's future.
Bertrand Tavernier’s daring documentary about the Algerian revolution sought to break the silence in France.
Why is the reality of Palestinian suffering denied in the Israeli consciousness?
An interview with poet Fady Joudah about writing his latest collection, [...], amid war in Gaza.
A Vietnam veteran on the political legacy of self-sacrifice and the necessity of war resistance.
Israel's attacks on health care workers and facilities in Gaza are unprecedented.
Israel's weaponization of images since October 7 obfuscates its genocidal campaign against Palestinians.
The law occludes the abhorrent violence routinely perpetrated by states in the name of self-defense.
Support for Palestinian rights is facing a McCarthyite backlash.
“Never again” means standing up for Palestinian people. “Never again” means this very moment.
A conversation with Palestinian human rights attorney Noura Erakat on the need for a political solution.
Amid ongoing reporting and ethical outrage, we need context for the fight between Hamas and Israel—and how it shapes possibilities for peace.
Jeanne Theoharis speaks with Lerone A. Martin on the white Christian legacy of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.
Real democratic participation in foreign policy is almost unimaginable today—but this wasn’t always the case.
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