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Colonization

The US Should Only Support a Multiethnic, Nonsectarian Israel

If Israel chooses to continue its current course, it should do it alone, without our funding

February 13, 2024 • by Stephen Zacks

Whether or not it sways Netanyahu, we should certainly withhold military funding now and make our support contingent on clearly stated humanitarian objectives and an ultimate governing framework that conforms to our ideas of justice....

The US Should Only Support a Multiethnic, Nonsectarian Israel

History

Democracy’s Endgame?

A plea for sustaining the infrastructure of hope

January 31, 2024 • by Elzbieta Matynia

Though surrounded by these largely man-made fires, we’ve at least been trying to put them out. It would be so much easier, though, to fight these fires if they were not fueled by massive efforts to dismantle the democratic order....

History

Why the Study of History Belongs to the Public

How social media makes possible a more democratic republic of letters

January 17, 2024 • by Rose Botaish

For many museums and archives, social media has already become a space to share more widely images and information from their collections....

Why the Study of History Belongs to the Public

Interviews

Artists Against Colonels

In Shades of Resistance, unexceptional people take exceptional risks

December 5, 2023 • by Joseph Matthews and Evangeline Riddiford Graham

Joseph Matthews and Evangeline Riddiford Graham chat about using fiction to unravel fascism, and why the “regime of the colonels” found the Greek underground counteroffensive of poetry and music so difficult to control....

Podcast

Heather Cox Richardson Believes in You

A conversation about Richardson’s book Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, Substack, and the importance of popular history

November 29, 2023 • by Claire Potter

A Why Now? episode on Heather Cox Richardson's book Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America...

Politics

Diaries of War

Voices of witness from Ukraine and Russia

November 20, 2023 • by Nora Krug

As the events of this war unfolded, I reached out to K., a Russia-born Ukrainian journalist in Kyiv, and D., an artist from St. Petersburg. I asked K. and D. if I could interview them to create a visual, weekly diary that would juxtapose their contrasting voices, and that would ...

Podcast

Old Enough to Fight, Old Enough to Vote

Episode 39: A conversation with historian Jennifer Frost

November 6, 2023 • by Claire Potter

A conversation with historian Jennifer Frost about her book Let Us Vote! Youth Voting Rights and the 26th Amendment...

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

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 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, ...

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

Democracy

How Democracies Transform, Fast and Slow

A response to John Keane

June 5, 2023 • by Ferenc Laczó

For all its acuity, John Keane’s theory of democide risks confusing democratic degradation with a transformation of the political debate. Not only that, it fails to account for the radicalization of authoritarian systems once democracy has been killed. ...

How Democracies Transform, Fast and Slow

COVID-19

Science and the COVID Epidemic in India

“The past as mnemonic and footnote always tempers our sense of innovation in science policy”

May 2, 2023 • by Shiv Visvanathan and Chandrika Parmar

Lockdowns reflect the arbitrariness of the state, an absence of sociological literacy about urban-rural differences, a sense of management as control without the nuances of social science that the diversity of India desperately needs....