Week of January 8

• War
  The Slaying of Qassem Soleimani

  Hussein Banai
  Saying No to a Stupid War

  Jeremy Varon

  Professor of History, New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College
  Understanding Kashmir’s Crisis

  Shubh Mathur

  Independent researcher
• Politics
  A Vote for Sanders is a Vote to Restore the Commonwealth

  Bernard Avishai

  Visiting professor of government, Dartmouth College
  Reparations, Atonement, or Both

  Troy Mosley

  Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel and 20-year veteran with combat experience.
  Fonda’s Firedrill Fridays

  Jo Freeman

  Jo Freeman is a writer and photographer.
• Culture
  What We Learned in Pine Valley

  Elana Levine

  Professor of media, cinema, and digital studies in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
  How Disney has Turned the Film Industry Into a Small World, After All

  Jake Pitre

  PhD candidate, Concordia University in Montreal
  The Scholarly Reach of Popular History

  Lora Burnett

  Lora D. Burnett teaches Global Arts, Media and Writing Studies at University of California, Merced