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Activism

Documenting the Little Abuses

An excerpt from Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Repression

October 11, 2023 • by Chris Robé

El Grito’s video activism is part of a long line of media activist efforts that labored on the front lines against exploitation, racial stereotyping, and state violence. ...

Politics

Could Donald Trump Pardon Himself?

Why the U.S. constitution doesn’t give the president a “GET OUT OF JAIL FREE” card

October 4, 2023 • by Gary J. Schmitt and Jeffrey K. Tulis

In the event of a 2024 reelection, the question arises: Can Trump pardon himself? Constitutionally, this issue exists within a gray area....

Capitalism

How Mary Mattingly’s Floating Barge Tackled Food Deserts in New York City

What foraging can teach Americans about solving national food insecurity

September 27, 2023 • by Emma Slack-Jørgensen

Mattingly’s Swale came before the foraging boom, but it suggests that foraging may hold a permanent place in New York. Foraging is not just another fashionable affectation, but a path to addressing the deep-rooted issues embedded in our current food systems. Swale represents how our understanding of food access is ...

How Mary Mattingly’s Floating Barge Tackled Food Deserts in New York City

Politics

You Can’t Slut-Shame Lauren Boebert

Being a slutty Gun Chick is her brand

September 26, 2023 • by Claire Potter

Americans would literally rather talk about hoodies, hand jobs, and whether we are all slut-shaming Lauren Boebert than policy....

The Right

Wildfires, Rhodes, and the Legacies of Fascism

It was a sad irony that the island’s destructive wildfires this summer began in an area intensively reforested under Italian fascist rule

September 25, 2023 • by Pamela Ballinger

Among the cultural patrimony threatened by the wildfires on Rhodes was that left by the Italian fascists....

Wildfires, Rhodes, and the Legacies of Fascism

Politics

On the Importance of Throwing Things: Pelting as Popular Politics

“Enjoyment remains inseparable from a deep sense of injury”

September 18, 2023 • by Nusrat S. Chowdhury

A common show of collective grievance, pelting has lost neither its significance nor its frequency over time....

On the Importance of Throwing Things: Pelting as Popular Politics

Democracy

Is Masih Alinejad Really the Voice of the Iranian Women’s Movement?

Or is the women’s rights activist the new face of the U.S. war machine?

September 13, 2023 • by Setareh Shohadaei

Who is Masih Alinejad, and how did she rise to such a position of power and influence in the United States?...

Is Masih Alinejad Really the Voice of the Iranian Women’s Movement?

Democracy

The Women’s Movement in Iran One Year after the Death of Mahsa Amini

A fragile triumph

September 12, 2023 • by Kian Tajbakhsh

As we approach the anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in September 2022, what can we expect for the future of Iranian women’s civil rights?...

The Women’s Movement in Iran One Year after the Death of Mahsa Amini

Activism

To Build a Black Future

In this excerpt, an introduction to the new Black politics of joy, pain, and care

September 11, 2023 • by Christopher Paul Harris

One of the critical features of the contemporary moment in Black movement, the time of #BlackLivesMatter, is how capacious the definitions of Blackness and, with it, Black radicalism have become....

Politics

Yevgeny Prigozhin: Act III, Scene II

A criminal turned caterer turned patriot

September 11, 2023 • by Peter Nohrnberg

I come to bury Prigozhin, not to praise him, nor dwell upon his three medals “For Merit to the Fatherland” awarded by the Kremlin....

Europe & Central Asia

“Deep political changes are only a matter of time”

Correspondence with Vladimir Kara-Murza

June 26, 2023 • by Anastasia Shteinert, Vladimir Kara-Murza and Alex Strelnikov

Just before his sentencing, journalists Anastasia Shteinert and Alex Strelnikov sent questions to Kara-Murza through the Russian prison postal system...

“Deep political changes are only a matter of time”

Democracy

The 2023 Turkish Elections—A Roller Coaster Ride between Hope and Despair

The opponents of Erdogan feel “ghosted” by their leaders

June 14, 2023 • by Selin Bengi Gümrükçü

About a week after the runoff of the Turkish presidential elections in 2023, I had a vivid dream. In this dream, the elections extended to a third round, scheduled for a few weeks later, and the dates for diaspora voting were yet to be released. As a diaspora voter myself, ...