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Protestors in London raise a banner reading "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" and call for an end to Israeli attacks on Gaza (December 9, 2023) | Andy Soloman / Shutterstock
Politics
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The Left
The French Politics of the Pantheon and the Monumental Hypocrisy of Emmanuel Macron
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Podcast
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Embroidered image "Pipicha" by Cinthya Santos Briones, from the chapter "Migrant Herbalism" in New Narratives on the Peopling of America: Immigration, Race and Dispossession.
United States
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red liberty (Fall 2021), acrylic and pastel on bar mop | Marco Saavedra
The Arts
Notes on red liberty
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1904 sepia photo portrait of an extended Serbian Roma family
New York City
New York’s Existential Crisis over Migration
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Poetry
Eugene Ostashevsky on the Holding Pattern of Revenge
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New York City
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April 1, 2024Nina Glick Schiller
Why Now?
Who Do You Love?
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Color plate etching The Turk (1789) by Joseph Racknitz, from a book that tried to explain the illusions behind the Kempelen chess playing automaton (known as The Turk) after making reconstructions of the device.
The Arts
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Race
Invisible Scam: Percival Everett’s Erasure
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Reviews
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