But there’s still hope for the global movement to ban these indiscriminate killers.
How Israel Occupied Itself
Israel’s crisis is not about democracy but occupation.
El Salvador’s Dangerous Democratic Backslide
The world’s “coolest dictator” is imprisoning innocents at rates not seen since the country’s dictatorship and civil war. Solidarity activists are fighting back.
Commemorating the ADA and Mourning the Mass Murder of Persons with Disabilities
July 26 marks the thirty-third anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the seventh anniversary of a horrific atrocity in Japan.
Why I Crashed the White House’s Garden Party for Narendra Modi
The White House’s embrace of the Indian leader is normalizing fascism in the world’s most populous country — and in the U.S. as well.
Imagination and Liberation
A review of Indonesia Out of Exile: How Pramoedya’s Buru Quartet Killed a Dictatorship by Max Lane.
Two Shipwrecks Reveal the State of the World
The rich get a rescue mission, the poor get nothing.
The Death of Democracy in Pakistan
The Biden administration is all too willing to to sacrifice democracy and human rights concerns on the altar of strategic interest.
The Real Border Surge
As Title 42 comes to an end, the border-industrial complex intensifies.
Retire This Dehumanizing Language About Immigrants
Human beings fleeing persecution are not a “flood” or “surge.” And it’s not “illegal” when they cross the border to seek asylum.