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The Making of the Deportation Machine
The pillars aren’t new. They were built over decades, with bipartisan consensus.
Occupying Hospitals
From Gaza to Minneapolis, attacks on health care turn spaces of refuge into sites of state violence.
The Mask Comes Off
Trump, Venezuela, and what’s really happening to the “rules-based international order.“
How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism
Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.
The Path to the Trump Doctrine
From Syria to Lebanon to Gaza, the coercion central to the new regime has been incubated in the Middle East.
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The violent reconfiguration of U.S. politics and power.
A special section on ICE with Robin D. G. Kelley, Joshua Craze, and Liv Veazey. Plus Aslı Ü. Bâli & Aziz Rana on the Trump doctrine, Gerald Epstein on the crypto chokehold, Vivian Gornick on who goes anti-Nazi, Marie Gottschalk on the deportation machine, and more.
“What happens once the destruction of hospitals can be argued for—rationalized, narrated, managed—as legally and morally sanctioned ‘necessity’?”
—Joelle M. Abi-Rached, “Occupying Hospitals”
“Trump is essentially taunting the international community: we can continue to give reasons, but we all know that they do not matter.”
—Rodrigo Nunes, “The Mask Comes Off”
“The choice now is to transform the party’s strategy to meet the scale of the threat, or to risk the end of democratic self-governance itself.”
—“How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism,” a forum led by Adam Bonica and Jake Grumbach
“Biden’s practices in the Middle East already demonstrated the extent to which Pax Americana was disintegrating.”
—Aslı Ü. Bâli and Aziz Rana, “The Path to the Trump Doctrine”
The Return of Regime Change
Empire’s Racketeers
Wajahat Ali speaks with Pankaj Mishra on the devastating consequences of Western imperialism, globalization, and capitalism and the fate of liberal democracy.
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