Meme-ing Our Way Through the Era of Ultra-Violence
Dark jokes about 9/11 distract us from a real reckoning with U.S. foreign policy and the horrors of the Global War on Terror.
Animals & Nature Coverage
9/11 Began 25 Years of Nonstop War and Abuses of Power
Never forget: the attacks brought us into an era of torture, the erosion of civil liberties, and the destruction of multiple Middle East countries.
- by Pam Bailey
John Fetterman Needs to Resign
At this point, he isn’t even pretending to do the job Pennsylvanians elected him for. It’s time to pack it up.
- by Alex Skopic
Children Deserve the Right to Hug Their Incarcerated Parents
Forty years after my family fought for the right for me to hug my mother in prison, children are still being denied the same human connection.
- by Chesa Boudin
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Mohammed El-Kurd on the Politics of the “Perfect Victim” by Current Affairs
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You Wanted a More Brutal World by Nathan J. Robinson
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The Voice of an Ordinary Iranian by Alex Skopic
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It’s Time to Ban Prescription Drug Ads by Emily Topping
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The Wall Street Journal’s Propaganda On Rent Control by Nathan J. Robinson
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We Love David Attenborough, So Why Don’t We Listen to Him? by Nathan J. Robinson
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Eugene Debs Knew the Power Labor Holds by Hamilton Nolan
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How the Beef Industry Captures Climate Science by Vasile Stanescu
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How to Defend Black History by Robert Greene II