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A recording of our event featuring Noam Chomsky, Sally Abed, Omar Dahi, Alon-lee Green, Congressman Jim McGovern, and Dr. James Zogby, President of the Arab-American Institute.
The United States ranked first on health security; then came COVID-19. In place of technocratic hubris, we need robust new forms of democratic humility.
New tools and technology policy might help, but politics come first.
Critiques of vaccine mandates continue a neoliberal tradition of idolizing private choice at the expense of the public good.
Though the organization’s legacy has been domesticated, its grassroots leadership embraced the global fight for freedom.
Like the 1619 Project, two new books on the Constitution reflect a vigorous debate about what has changed in the American past—and what hasn’t.
Today’s social movements are grappling once again with a central challenge for the New Left: how to remedy injustice while maintaining vitality and independence from the political system.
Tactical critiques of the war’s conduct are a distraction from U.S. imperialism.
Historian Samuel Moyn contends that efforts to conduct war humanely have only perpetuated it. But the solution must lie in politics, not a sacrifice of human rights.
Drone attacks were sold to the American people as a way to limit U.S. involvement in Pakistan. In reality, U.S. empire has only continued to exert influence.
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Writer and researcher with a specialization in party systems and ideology, political economy, American political development, and modern Europe.
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