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The solidarity movement doesn’t have a single leader—and it doesn’t need one.
You are keeping no one safe, except for your donors, trustees, and the university’s endowment.
It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it.
An interview with S’bu Zikode, leader of the shack dwellers’ movement, thirty years after apartheid’s end.
For Robert Jay Lifton, treating veterans’ trauma was an antiwar tool. How did PTSD, the diagnosis he helped create, come to accommodate state violence?
The Israel-India worker deal resembles British indenture.
Long decried by liberals and conservatives alike, the Martinican psychiatrist remains one of the most piercing critics of colonialism.
What the concert hall attack means for the Russian leader's future.
Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix discuss their new book, Solidarity: The Past, Present, And Future of a World-Changing Idea.
Why is the reality of Palestinian suffering denied in the Israeli consciousness?
A Vietnam veteran on the political legacy of self-sacrifice and the necessity of war resistance.
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Democrats increasingly rely on affluent suburbanites. Does that spell the end of a bold economic agenda? A forum with Heather Gautney, Ro Khanna, Dorian Warren, and others.
Jefferson Cowie speaks with Aziz Rana about whether the language of freedom can be taken back from its "sordid history" in the U.S. context.
While the U.S.–Israel alliance has become isolated, new ones are emerging.
After decades of deference to the market, states are exerting greater control over capital. In the face of climate change, it may be too little, too late.
Decades after apartheid South Africa, student activists face a new obstacle: the financialization of university endowments.
On the Guyanese revolutionary’s writings on anticolonial struggle.
Why did the blue city agree to host the Republican National Convention—and to suspend a hard-won police reform for its duration?
Forty years ago, the exiled South African activist dared to teach Zionism critically. A furious backlash ensued.
Becca Rothfeld speaks with Samuel Moyn about his book Liberalism Against Itself and why liberalism is in crisis.
Biden’s industrial policy program promises a massive shift from decades of neoliberal orthodoxy. Can it deliver inclusive gains in time?
How Zionism’s dreams of liberation became entangled with colonialism.
Private universities should respond to the charge of hypocrisy with a maximalist approach to free speech.
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